Chaos and love rule Union Arts Center’s next season
The Puget Sound’s weekly roundup of arts, culture, and community | March 27 to April 2, 2026
Union Arts Center has revealed their second season as a combined company of ACT Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company. After merging organizations last summer, Union Arts Center has had a season full of contemporary and classic theatre, giving audiences one location to find a variety of works.
Their upcoming season continues this goal of subverting preconceived notions, while fulfilling audiences’ expectations of profound theatre. As Managing Director John Bradshaw said last season, “For me, the most important thing we can do in our first season is to invite everyone in to see that Shakespeare, which we can only really ever interpret through our contemporary experience, and contemporary works, which reflect our history as they open doors into the future, combine perfectly in the timeless arc of our need to gather around the fire and tell stories to make sense of our world.”
The 2026/27 season presents two Shakespeare plays and three contemporary works, plus their 51st annual production of A Christmas Carol. The season is grounded in love of all shapes, sharing the closest bond of humans through stories that span time and the world.
Union Arts Center will kick off the season in September with the tragedy of a lost and angry young man: Hamlet. In October, exes Jada and Dallas meet at a restaurant, with the history of their relationship sitting in between them in Table 17. The first show of 2027 is Steve Martin’s comedy Meteor Shower, where chaos ensues and conversation takes a strange turn. Beatrice and Benedick battle it out in the second Shakespeare play of the season: Much Ado About Nothing. And last is The River Bride, a modern fable by Marisela Treviño Orta about two sisters and a stranger pulled from the Amazon. – Ciara
On the Stage
Robin Hood
Theatre | Seattle Children’s Theatre
Now – May 10 | Tickets
A wannabe king, lawless law enforcement, and the rich hoarding all the wealth—it’s dark times in Nottingham. But out of the mists of nearby Sherwood Forest comes the hero we’ve been waiting for.
More Events
- Arnaldo! & Friends | Intiman Theatre | Now – March 29 | View Print Program
- Mary Jane | Seattle Rep | Now – April 19 | View Program
- Open Captioned: April 2
- Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Taproot Theatre Company | Now – April 25 | View Program
- Grease | Village Theatre Issaquah | Now – May 3 | View Program
Next Line
- Seven plays make up Seattle Rep’s 2026/27 season, along with two Young Rep productions which showcase the next generation of theatre makers. Tune in next week for a full look at the season.
- Sixteen artists from across Washington have received monetary support from Artist Trust’s Fellowship Awards. The recipients’ work spans literary, media, visual and performance art.
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