THREE DIFFERENT PLAYS
Theme: The American Family
JUNE 23 - JULY 19, 2025
Three different award-winning and thought-provoking plays, all taking place in the historic Firehouse Arts and Events Center.
3 PLAYS, 6 NIGHTS A WEEK, FOR 4 WEEKS
Bellingham TheatreWorks, in partnership with The Firehouse Arts and Events Center and The Historic Fairhaven Association, presents three plays in repertory.
The state of the modern American family is put under a microscope in this trio of iconic plays. Tense, dramatic, hilarious at times, disturbing at others, these plays show how families respond to extreme events and pressures, drawing closer together, confronting trauma, flying apart. How much of your own family life will you see reflected in these stories?
We are pleased to be the only theatre in the Pacific Northwest that offers a summer repertory season.
We also invite the audience to stay and participate in the post-show discussions with community organizations that are addressing issues raised by these plays.
FSRT 2026 FEATURED ARTISTS:
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
Our company works with many students and educators, parents and children, as well as guest artists from far beyond Bellingham Bay, all working together to bring these three plays to life.
1
Brighton Beach Memoirs
by Neil Simon (1984)
A comic memoir told through the eyes of 15-year-old Eugene, exploring the life of a struggling Jewish family in 1937. This semi-autobiographical play was written by Neil Simon who began writing his memoirs when he was 15! In typical Simon comic fashion, Eugene dreams about baseball and girls while learning about family, relationships, and an impending war.
2
Fairview
by Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019)
This 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning comedy follows a middle class African American family as they prepare for a birthday dinner for their grandmother, an event watched by four white people. The mother wants the party to be perfect, her sister can’t be bothered, the father doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is missing, her daughter is a teenager! The first act hilarity quicky turns into a gripping examination of family and white supremacy.
3
Appropriate
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (2014)
Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly dead patriarch. As the three adult children sort through a lifetime of their father’s hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt and a disturbing discovery hiding among their father’s possessions. This 2024 Tony Award winning play uses biting humor to explore a bruising family gathering.
SHOW GALLERIES
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MEET THE DIRECTORS
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POST-SHOW COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS
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