Encore Arts Programs are an essential part of the Northwest performing arts scene. Serving 19 major performing arts organizations in Seattle, on the Eastside and in Tacoma, Encore Arts Programs reach 2 million arts patrons every year.

ACT Theatre is dedicated to offering audiences the most provocative, engaging, and theatrical contemporary plays available.

Bellevue Civic Theatre presents outstanding contemporary theatre and classic and world premiere musicals.*

Bellevue Philharmonic performs at Meydenbauer Center and is the only professional orchestra on the Eastside.*

Book-It Repertory Theatre Classic and contemporary writing brought to the stage.

5th Avenue Theatre is a producer and presenter of live musical theater and birthplace of the mega-hit musical Hairspray.

Intiman Theatre produces classics and contemporary plays and is on the forefront of developing some of the country's most ambitious new work.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Three theaters in downtown Tacoma presenting a wide variety of music, dance, and dramatic performances.

Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the top five ballet companies in the U.S., presents both full-length ballets and mixed repertory programs each season.

Paramount and Moore Theatres under the auspices of the Seattle Theatre Group+, are home to a broad range of performing arts including the Broadway in Seattle series(Paramount)of acclaimed Broadway shows on national tour and the Off-Broadway Dance series (Paramount and Moore) of touring modern dance troupes and off-Broadway hits.

Seattle Children's Theatre among the leading theatres for children and families in the U.S., performs plays and musicals in two state-of-the-art facilities at the Seattle Center.

Seattle Opera is internationally recognized for its theatrically compelling and musically accomplished performances and is renowned for its productions of Wagner's music dramas.

Seattle Public Theater presents an invigorating season of top quality plays at the historic Bathhouse on Greenlake.+

Seattle Repertory Theatre one of the leading regional theatres in America and winner of a Tony Award, presents exciting and provocative plays and musicals on two stages.

Seattle Shakespeare Company Dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare and other classics of theater.

Seattle Symphony is recognized for its adventurous programming and tradition of performing music by contemporary composers along with classic works.

Taproot Theatre has been an important part of the Puget Sound arts scene since its founding in 1976 and today produces a mainstage season February - December.+

UW World Series at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts presents internationally acclaimed artists in music, theater and dance.+

Village Theatre presents popular Broadway musicals, plays and new musical works in its Issaquah home and at the Everett Performing Arts Center.*

*This organization appears in Eastside Encores.
+This organization appears in Encore Stages.