Journey to Nubia: The Land of Gold
2023-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd St, Burien, WA, 98166, United States
A cultural presentation & story-sharing by Nubian artist and Co-Director of the Nubian Foundation, Nabra Nelson.
Part of our celebration of National Arab American Heritage Month.

The Return: Dunya Productions
2023-10-24 - 2023-10-28, 2023-11-02 - 2023-11-04 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
The play is set in an automobile repair shop in the mid-sized city Herzliya. This Seattle premiere by Palestinian playwright Hanna Eady and Seattle-based playwright Edward Mast deftly dramatizes the tensions between a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew who might have known each other in the past. By the end of the play, both of their lives will be forever changed by the realities of present-day Israel.

Each Night at 8pm!

"Living" Room by Abdelfattah Abusrour [virtual]
2023-10-26 - 2023-12-01 | Virtual
“Living” Room by Abdelfattah Abusrour
If these walls could talk…what would they say about the occupation of Palestine?
If these walls could talk…This is the experience of a “living” room in the West Bank under occupation. Find a comfortable chair in your own living room, and press play.
Abdelfattah Abusrour is founder and director of Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society, established in 1998 in Aida refugee camp-Bethlehem. His concept and philosophy “Beautiful Resistance”, using performing and visual arts, culture and education, is a creative and peaceful expression in situations of oppression and trauma to provide possibilities to save lives and inspire hope and build peace within individuals to be peace builders in their communities and beyond. He started working with children, youth and later adults, focused also on mothers and women. Mobile Beautiful Resistance program, using theatre, dance, photography, games library (play bus) touring all over the West Bank-Palestine to train trainers and connect with other Palestinian communities and marginalized areas. Abusrour is an author, actor, and theatre director, with a PhD in Biological and Medical Engineering from France in 1993. In 2005, he abandoned his career in Biology because he believed in the power of arts and culture as pure humanity where stereotypes vanish and people are on equal grounds. These are the bridges that people can build together as equals to shape a better future for all the generations to come. Abusrour co-wrote the plays Salut c’est nous in 1990, and Nourrir de faim; in 1993 while studying in France (Co-founder of Paris Nord Théâtre). He has written, adapted or performed in many plays produced in Palestine, including Waiting for the Rain, Staying Alive, When Old Men Cry, “6500,” and others.
Abusrour says: “We don’t have the luxury of despair, but a steadfast hope that we can make a change for our children and the generations to come that we can be proud of” and “Miracles don’t happen alone, we provoke them to happen.”
The sound designer for this play is Wisam Aljafari, and the recording was made in the Alrowwad studios in Aida Camp, West Bank.
Named one of the Top 5 Immersive Companies in NYC by Jonathan Mandell of tdf.org, This Is Not a Theatre Company creates site-based, immersive, multi-sensory, participatory dance-theatre that can be smelled, touched, and tasted as well as seen and heard. This theatre is not something to passively consume, but to co-create. With each production, This Is Not a Theatre Company asks the audience to perceive the world in new ways, to empathize in new ways, and to practice creativity. Visit www.ThisIsNotaTheatreCompany.com.

The Return: Dunya Productions
2023-11-09 - 2023-11-12 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
The play is set in an automobile repair shop in the mid-sized city Herzliya. This Seattle premiere by Palestinian playwright Hanna Eady and Seattle-based playwright Edward Mast deftly dramatizes the tensions between a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew who might have known each other in the past. By the end of the play, both of their lives will be forever changed by the realities of present-day Israel.

Each Night through the 11th at 8pm!
And 5:00 PM on Sunday November 12

The Return: Dunya Productions
2023-11-16 - 2023-11-19 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
The play is set in an automobile repair shop in the mid-sized city Herzliya. This Seattle premiere by Palestinian playwright Hanna Eady and Seattle-based playwright Edward Mast deftly dramatizes the tensions between a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew who might have known each other in the past. By the end of the play, both of their lives will be forever changed by the realities of present-day Israel.

Each Night at 8pm!
And 5:00 PM on Sunday November 19

The Return: Dunya Productions
2023-11-30 - 2023-12-03 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
The play is set in an automobile repair shop in the mid-sized city Herzliya. This Seattle premiere by Palestinian playwright Hanna Eady and Seattle-based playwright Edward Mast deftly dramatizes the tensions between a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew who might have known each other in the past. By the end of the play, both of their lives will be forever changed by the realities of present-day Israel.
Nov. 30 – Dec. 2: Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 PM
Dec. 3: Sunday at 5:00 PM.
We have also dedicated one performance to material aid for Gaza and all of Palestine. All proceeds from Friday December 1 will be donated to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF).
Additional seats are being added to accommodate demand, but THE RETURN is still performed in an intimate space which can fill up quickly. Get your tickets today at https://dunyaproductions.square.site/upcoming
“The Return is a powder keg of raw, visceral emotion and a clarifying window into life in Israel. The Return is also a powerful testament to how art can serve as a vanguard of truth, hope, introspection, and the conscience of society.”
— Beverly Aarons in Artists Up Close

Play: My Name is Rachel Corrie
2024-03-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Erickson Theater, 1524 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Wednesday, March 20
Intiman Theatre Presents
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE –
staged play reading and panel conversation
7:30 PM
The Erickson Theatre
1524 Harvard Ave, Seattle
The play My Name is Rachel Corrie is drawn from the writings of Rachel Corrie and was edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. It has been translated into multiple languages and has been performed in theaters throughout the U.S. and around the world. This staged reading is directed by Kaytlin McIntyre and performed by Cheyenne Barton. The panel following will discuss the role of art in times of war, and our local response to global issues.

Comedy and Commentary tour of the #Susa fundraising for The Freedom Theatre!
2024-04-08 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
We are excited to announce @alaashehada Comedy and Commentary tour of the #Susa fundraising for The Freedom Theatre!

Coming straight from #Jenin Alaa Shehada is graduate of The Freedom Theatre’s Acting School, co-founder of The Palestine Comedy Club, a doctor clown in Palestinian hospitals with Red Noses International, and a member of Troupe Courage in Amsterdam.

Organised by the Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre NY

Contact each venue individually for details

POSTPONED! - Comedy and Commentary tour of the #Susa fundraising for The Freedom Theatre!
2024-04-09 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States

Circle Mirror Transformation
2025-02-01 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-02 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-03 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-13 19:30 - 21:30 and 2 more dates | 12th Ave Arts, 1620 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98122
Circle Mirror Transformation is a case study of strangers willing to take a chance and open themselves to the revelations, indignities, hilarity, and heartbreak of an amateur acting class in a community center classroom. In doing so, they transform the space into the anti-Zoom room; it becomes a quietly poignant reminder of the power of being present with one another, a reflection of the stories we share through the silliness and the silences, an open invitation to partake in the transformative and sublime power of play.
Circle Mirror Transformation premiered at Playwrights Horizons in October 2009. The play received Obie Awards for Best New American Play, Performance, Ensemble, and Directing; and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Director of a Play.

*This play has an Arab character and Arab actors

Dunya at the Cherry Street Village Iftar Fundraiser
2025-03-08 17:30 - 19:30 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
Join us for a special Ramadan performance of @Dunya Productions’ “Almonds Blossom in Deir Yassin” by Hanna Eady.
This magical evening will start with a delicious Iftar (Fasting Breakfast) sponsored by SCM Salaam Cultural Museum.
Come help us fill the gap and sustain Dunya Productions at the Cherry Street Village

Kitsap Solidarity Presents: One Family in Gaza
2025-05-31 16:30 - 17:30 | Bainbridge Island Senior/Community Center, 370 Brien Dr. SE, Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110
An original play by Crystal Zevon
Based on texts from Yasser in Gaza
In November 2023, Crystal Zevon, a longtime activist for Palestine, began a text conversation with a young 33 year old Palestinian man in Gaza. Yasser is a civil engineer, a husband and the father of three young children under the age of seven. For more than a year, and continuing, Yasser and Crystal have exchanged texts, photos and videos on almost a daily basis. These unedited texts create the basis for telling the poignant, terrifying, and sometimes joyful story of one family’s struggle to survive through a genocide. Yasser’s texts are juxtaposed against news items of corresponding dates, and the thoughts and feelings of someone living in comfort and safety oceans away.
One Family in Gaza is a play about simply that – One Family in Gaza .
The objective for creating this play is three-fold:

To offer a play that is profound in its reliance on the truths disclosed through a relationship grounded in the reality of two distant and distinct realities, yet a play so simple that anyone can perform it anywhere – from a dining room table reading to a staged performance.

To humanize Palestinians by creating a relationship with one family whose loves, fears, hopes and dreams are not unlike yours.

To motivate those who see the play to continue the discussion, to delve beneath the media’s glossing over of a genocide and take action to expose it.
It is through identification with the basic human truths revealed in the daily life of one family that we can and must create change.

More information to come (please check website)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

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Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Friday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. (Industry Night)
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. (Industry Night)
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Monday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. (Industry Night)
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Thursday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. (PWYC)
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Play: Alice in Arabialand
2025-06-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Annex Theatre, Physical Address: 1100 E. Pike St. (11th Ave. at E. Pike St.), Seattle, WA, 98122
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice on an adventure to “Arabialand” where she will meet queens, challenge djinns, and learn from mystics. As Alice journeys through the queer underground, she learns more about the impact of decades of colonialism and imperialism on the region. A magical realism fusion of Lewis Carroll’s novel and Arab folklore, Alice in Arabialand will delight and move those familiar with and new to queer life in the Middle East.

Buy Tickets

Ticketing and Box Office
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5
The box office opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Performances
Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. (Closing Night)

Little Women the Musical at the Renton Civic Theater
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-21 | Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S 3rd St, Renton, WA, 98057
You might ask, how is Little Women an Arab event?!

The answer is that you can see the talented Rayan Atallah playing the male lead Mr. John Brooke.

Various dates/times available – check website for details

Dunya Productions presents Almonds Blossom in Deir Yassin
2025-10-23 - 2025-11-15 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
A play written and directed by Hanna Eady
Preview shows October 23 & 24, 2025, 7:30 pm
Opening night Saturday, October 25, 2025, 7:30 pm
Dunya Productions at Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Tickets and full details at Dunya Productions: Almonds Blossom in Deir Yassin
ALMONDS BLOSSOM IN DEIR YASSIN is a full-length play about four people with inextricable ties to the historical Palestinian village of Deir Yassin—the site of a massacre of Palestinian men, women, and children on April 9, 1948, by Zionist paramilitary troops. By 1951, Israel had established the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center on the grounds of Deir Yassin.

This play delves into the theme of Palestinian collective memory at the location of the massacred Palestinian village Deir Yassin, now occupied by an Israeli mental institution.
Through its surreal narrative, its characters challenge the silence surrounding historical truths and the preservation of collective memory.

Thu. October 23rd 2025, 7:30 pm
Fri. October 24th 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat. October 25th 2025, 7:30 pm
Wed. October 29th 2025, 7:30 pm
Thu. October 30th 2025, 7:30 pm
Fri. October 31st 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat. November 1st 2025, 7:30 pm
Wed. November 5th 2025, 7:30 pm
Thu. November 6th 2025, 7:30 pm
Fri. November 7th 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat. November 8th 2025, 7:30 pm
Wed. November 12th 2025, 7:30 pm
Thu. November 13th 2025, 7:30 pm
Fri. November 14th 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat. November 15th 2025, 7:30 pm
