BAT brings together a diverse group of people to share a common experience to build community and sustainable economic growth.

BAT is committed to treating audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage, and involve both the local and the expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region. See outstanding performances rivaling any live theatre in the Seattle area. Musicals, drama, and comedy presentations by excellent local performers, directors, and playwrights.

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We've been going strong for over twenty years, graduating from rehearsals in coffee shops to hosting our flagship festival at ACT Theatre. We're constantly inspired by how a small one-off theater festival from the 90s has grown into a substantial non-profit organization that's thrived for so long. While a lot has changed over the years, the spirit of what we do remains steadfast. You can always count on 14/48 to bring our community together to do what we do best: put on a play. Every year we want to keep raising the stakes, whether it's launching partner festivals in new cities around the world, creating new programming like 14/48: Nordo, or helping produce new work from Veteran artists. Help support the future and continued growth of The 14/48 Projects. Let's Raise the Stakes!

For the last eight years, out of the desire to create more opportunities for fellow artists to play combined with an ever present slightly obsessive love of the holidays, Rachel Delmar created SnowGlobed. An Evening of Holiday Inspired Scenes & Spectacles. This year, we have partnered with Copious Love to create a one night only event full of Holiday Inspired Scenes & Spectacles. In SnowGlobed tradition, there will be a set of Holiday Inspired plays by local playwrights as well as 4 variety acts curated this year by Wiley Gorn. All to be performed in one exciting extravaganza evening.

An investment in new work & underrepresented voices is an investment not only in supporting this moment in time together but the future of these artists, their voices, & the American theatre. Any size contribution makes a difference. Thank you for your time & investment. We hope to see you at the show December 13th!

"Ogun's brother is missing; Ogun builds tools to find him", words obtained via a Yoruba poem that Academy Award winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney uses as canvas to paint the story of The Brothers Size. The Brothers Size is a play about two brothers, Ogun and Oshoosi Size, after Oshoosi returns home from prison we see the two wrestling with the ramifications and re-assimilation of life after prison. In this fierce and honest look at the complex bonds of brotherhood, McCraney weaves together poetry, music and Yoruba mythology to magnify the tug-of-war between freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

The Young Hot Thespian collective group chose this play because it is the story often unseen, and often forgotten. With your help we hope to make these brothers seen, these brothers of ours, and these brothers of yours. With the aid of a donation of any kind we, together, can bring a necessary story to audiences completely free of charge. So please donate today and join us December 6-9th for The Brothers Size.

In 2020, audiences will experience the US premiere of This Restless House, an award-winning trilogy of plays by British playwright Zinnie Harris that reimagines Aeschylus' The Oresteia by repackaging epic classical text in a genre-hopping mash up of contemporary scene work, live music, and expressionistic physicality. Harris' feminist adaptation places the women at the center of the narrative and uses the ancient Greek notion of fate to explore and interrogate the impact of trauma and mental illness across generations; asking contemporary audiences whether it's possible to break a cycle.

Developed over three years, this trilogy will engage over three hundred artists in a performance of scale and theatricality rarely dared by Seattle artists. It's epic material demanding an epic process and promising to engage a large community of artists to grapple with the cost of trauma on a family, a body, and a mind. And then, ask how we can end it.

This Restless House is the kind of big epic art the PNW craves and Seattle artists are hungry to make. Your support helps pay artists a living wage and bring locally-produced work of scale and ambition to our stages.