Seattle’s November lineup of accessible performances
Your monthly guide to inclusive performances in the Puget Sound region.
November brings crisp air, cozy nights, and the rhythm of Seattle’s performance season in full bloom. As the holidays draw closer, it’s the perfect moment to gather with loved ones and share in the joy of live art—whether revisiting a favorite tradition or exploring something new.
Throughout the region, arts organizations continue to make performances more welcoming for all, offering ASL interpretation, captioning, audio description, and other accessibility options.
Shucked
ASL Interpreted: November 9 at 1 p.m.
Audio Described: November 9 at 1 p.m.
Open Captioned: November 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Closed Captioned: Available at all performances
Shucked is the Tony Award®–winning musical comedy The Wall Street Journal calls “flat out hilarious!” This corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theatre.
Broadway at The Paramount
seattle.broadway.com
The Pirates of Penzance
Open Captioned: November 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Get ready for opera on the high seas with Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular piratical comedy. The story begins as young Frederic is due to be released from his accidental apprenticeship to a band of pirates; he dreams of living an honorable life dedicated to love.
Seattle Opera
seattleopera.org
O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy
Audio Described: November 22 at 3 p.m.
Combining British propriety with an unabashed love for the unexpected, London’s 3-time Impresario Award-winning duo steep an outrageously funny and brilliantly inventive show reminiscent of classic British pantos.
Seattle Theatre Group
stgpresents.org
The Humans
ASL Interpreted: November 7 at 7:30 p.m.
English Captioned: November 10 & 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Spanish Captioned: November 13 & 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Sensory-Friendly: November 16 at 2 p.m.
Audio Described: November 16 at 2 p.m.
Tactile Tour: November 16 at 2 p.m.
Directed by Founding Artistic Director Teresa Thuman, this Tony Award-winning play captures the complexities of family life with humor and raw emotional depth. As secrets are revealed and hopes collide, the Blakes wrestle with what it means to face uncertainty together.
Sound Theatre Company
soundtheatrecompany.org
The Da Vinci Code
ASL Interpreted: November 9 at 2 p.m.
In this thrilling play, based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, Professor Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre, where he becomes the center of a murder investigation.
Tacoma Little Theatre
tlt.com
Shrew
ASL Interpreted: November 1 at 2 p.m.
Audio Described: November 1 at 2 p.m.
Drag. Puppetry. Power games. Experience Shakespeare’s play of matrimonial misery as you’ve never seen it before. Shrew uses the classic text—inverted, upended, and overturned—to shatter our funhouse mirrors.
Union Arts Center
unionartscenter.org
Brigadoon
ASL Interpreted: November 1 at 2 p.m.
Captioned: November 15 at 2 p.m.
Americans Tommy and Jeff are hiking the Scottish Highlands, when out of the mists they stumble upon the enchanting village of Brigadoon, which appears for only one day every 100 years.
Village Theatre Everett
villagetheatre.org
Chicago
ASL Interpreted: November 2 at 1:30 p.m.
Open Captioned: November 2 at 1:30 p.m.
Tactile Display: Every performance
Chicago is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one showstopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen.
5th Avenue Theatre & Seattle Theatre Group
5thavenue.org
