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Fall Events Ticket Guide

Broadway at the Paramount returns this October with Jesus Christ Superstar. 

After a year and a half of closures, Seattle’s venues are reopening one at a time and refilling their seats and floors with (fully vaccinated) arts lovers. The Delta variant is changing any plans of a business-as-usual reopening, but still national and local acts are set to the hit our stages. For those comfortable taking to a concert hall in their finest night-out masks, here’s a list of marquee events this September, October, and November. 

Books & Talks

Sep 28 – Anthony Doerr – Benaroya Hall
Sep 29 – Marcus Harrison Green with Michele Matessa Flores – Town Hall Seattle
Oct 15 – Kaveh Akbar – Hugo House
Oct 15 – Susan Orlean – Town Hall Seattle
Oct 17 – Lauren Groff – Benaroya Hall
Nov 3 – Jelani Cobb – Town Hall Seattle
Nov 5 – Sherwin Bitsui and Kenzie Allen – Hugo House

Concerts

Shannon and the Clams surf into town, helping herald the return of touring acts to Seattle’s stages. 

Sep 3 – Shannon and the Clams – Neptune Theatre
Sep 4 – Cave Singers with Red Ribbon – Tractor Tavern
Sep 5 – Bully – Barboza
Sep 16 – Waxahatchee – Moore Theatre
Sep 18 – Tomo Nakayama – Neptune Theatre
Sep 21 – Herbie Hancock – Paramount Theatre
Sep 22 – James Blake – Paramount Theatre
Sep 24 – SOL – Showbox 
Sep 25–27 – Japanese Breakfast – Neptune Theatre
Sep 29 & Oct 2 – Lucy Dacus – Neptune Theatre
Sep 30 – Isaiah Rashad – Showbox SoDo
Oct 9 & 10 – Ben Gibbard and David Bazan – Showbox
Oct 12 & 13 – Wilco – Paramount Theatre
Oct 13, 16, & 17 – Ann Wilson –  Neptune Theatre
Oct 14 – Night Beats and Spirit Award – Chop Suey
Oct 23 – Fat Tony and Cadence Weapon – Clock-Out Lounge
Oct 30 – Freakout Records 5 Year Anniversary Party – The Crocodile
Nov 7 – Wavves – Crocodile
Nov 10 – Julien Baker – Moore Theatre
Nov 11 – Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Neumos
Nov 11–14 – Freakout Festival 2021– Ballard
Nov 13 – Kikagaku Moyo – Crocodile
Nov 13 & 14 – Perfume Genius – Showbox
Nov 19 – La Luz  – Neptune Theatre
Nov 23 – Metz and Preoccupations – The Crocodile

Formed in Seattle, dream-surf band La Luz plays the Neptune in November. 

Classical & More

Sep 18 – Seattle Symphony Opening Night Gala – Benaroya Hall
Sep 14 & 15 – Vieux Farka Touré – Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
Sep 21 & 22 – Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery: “Two Lost Souls” – Triple Door
Sep 21 & 22 – The Cookers – Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
Sep 23–26 – R. Schumann Symphony No. 3 – Benaroya Hall
Oct 7 & 9 – Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances – Benaroya Hall
Oct 8 & 9 – Booker T. Jones – Triple Door
Oct 13 – Conrad Tao – Meany Center for the Performing Arts
Oct 14 & 16 – Dausgaard Conducts Stravinsky – Benaroya Hall

Comedy

Sep 18 – Nikki Glaser – Moore Theatre
Sep 22 – Marc Maron – Neptune Theatre
Oct 1 & 2 – Jesus Trejo – Laughs Comedy Club
Oct 6 – Bianca Del Rio – Moore Theatre
Nov 5 & 6 – Dulcé Sloan – Laughs Comedy Club
Nov 12 & 13 – Hasan Minhaj – Paramount Theatre and McCaw Hall
Nov 13 – Daniel Sloss – Moore Theatre
Nov 26 – Trevor Noah – Climate Pledge Arena

Former RuPaul’s Drag Race star Bianca Del Rio brings her Unsanitized tour to the Moore. 

Dance

Sep 24–26 – Singularly Cerrudo – McCaw Hall (Pacific Northwest Ballet)
Nov 5–7 – Beyond Ballet – McCaw Hall (Pacific Northwest Ballet) 

Theater

Oct 5–10 –Jesus Christ Superstar –  Paramount Theatre
Oct 15–31 – This Is Halloween – Triple Door
Oct 16–30 – La Bohème – McCaw Hall (Seattle Opera)
Nov 16–21 – Mean Girls – Paramount Theatre











Stefan Milne
Stefan Milne
Stefan Milne is the arts and culture editor for Seattle Met. He’s a Washington native and earned an M.A. in English from Central Washington University. He’s published journalism, fiction, and poetry in Gargoyle Magazine, The Stranger, and others. You can likely find him reading or cooking vegetables from his garden.