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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at Lakewood Theatre

Lakewood Center for the Arts 368 S State St, Lake Oswego

Lakewood Theatre Company, now in its 74th season, stages the Irving Berlin musical about two song-and-dance men, a sister act and a Vermont inn that needs…

Bellevue Downtown Ice Rink

Bellevue Downtown Park

For a little over nine weeks, a seasonal rink sets up on the plaza at Bellevue Downtown Park, with the waterfall and the downtown towers as…

$12 – $24

Little Shop of Horrors at Portland Center Stage

The Armory (Portland Center Stage) 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland

Portland Center Stage counter-programs the season of goodwill with a brand-new production of the cult musical about a shy florist and the bloodthirsty plant that makes…

Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Grand Seattle

Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Ave, Seattle

For 32 years, architects have teamed with the Sheraton's chefs to build a village of six-foot gingerbread structures in the downtown hotel, each season built around…

A Christmas Carol at Portland Playhouse

Portland Playhouse 602 NE Prescott St, Portland

Portland Playhouse's musical take on Dickens has become a King neighborhood holiday ritual, staged in the company's converted church on NE Prescott. This year director Cassie…

$5 – $71.95

Argosy Cruises Christmas Ship Festival

Pier 55, Seattle Waterfront (plus Lake Union, Kirkland, Lake Washington, Edmonds, Everett and Des Moines departures) 1101 Alaskan Way, Seattle

Since 1949, a decorated Christmas Ship has sailed around Puget Sound and Lake Washington with a live choir on board, stopping off waterfront parks for 20-minute…

Ongoing

WildLanterns at Woodland Park Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo 5500 Phinney Ave N, Seattle

Woodland Park Zoo's winter light festival swaps strings of bulbs for large illuminated lanterns shaped like animals and habitats, set along the zoo's paths after dark.…

Seattle Christmas Market

Seattle Center (South Fountain Lawn & Fisher Pavilion) 305 Harrison St, Seattle

Seattle Center's South Fountain Lawn turns into a European-style Christmas village for five weeks, with wooden stalls from local and European vendors, a carousel, a walk-through…

$6.99 – $21.99

ZooLights at the Oregon Zoo

Oregon Zoo 4001 SW Canyon Rd, Portland

The Oregon Zoo trades daytime animal-watching for a nighttime walk through grounds wrapped in light displays, from the main paths to the hillside trees. Gates open…

$13 – $35

Seattle Center Winterfest

Seattle Center (Armory Food & Event Hall and campus) 305 Harrison St, Seattle

Seattle Center's five-week holiday program is mostly free and easy to drop into. The heart of it is the Winter Train & Village in the Armory,…

Free

Westlake Park Holiday Carousel

Westlake Park 401 Pine St, Seattle

After a six-year break, the downtown holiday carousel is back in Westlake Park, presented by Nordstrom. It turns daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. through…

$4

Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium 5400 N Pearl St, Tacoma

Tacoma's long-running holiday light show takes over Point Defiance Zoo after dark, with light displays strung along the zoo's paths above Commencement Bay. It's a walking…

Christmas Festival of Lights at The Grotto

The Grotto (National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother) 8840 NE Skidmore St, Portland

The Grotto's wooded sanctuary in Northeast Portland turns into a quarter-mile walk of lights each evening from November 27 to December 30. The music is the…

$8.95 – $19.95

Winter Wonderland at Portland International Raceway

Portland International Raceway 1940 N Victory Blvd, Portland

A drive-through light show on the racetrack at Portland International Raceway, and the single largest fundraiser for the Sunshine Division's hunger-relief work. Tickets are priced per…

$38 – $55

Snowflake Lane at The Bellevue Collection

Bellevue Way between Bellevue Square and Lincoln Square Bellevue Way NE from NE 4th St to NE 8th St, Bellevue

Every night at 7 p.m. from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve, Bellevue Way between NE 4th and NE 8th turns into a short holiday…

Free

Garden d’Lights

Bellevue Botanical Garden 12001 Main St, Bellevue

Bellevue Botanical Garden's holiday display shapes its lights into the garden itself: glowing flowers, plants and small critters tucked into the beds along the paths, with…

$5 – $10

Portland’s Public Menorah at The Square

Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland

Chabad Center for Jewish Life lights Portland's public menorah in Pioneer Courthouse Square across Hanukkah, from Friday, December 4, through Sunday, December 13. The gathering runs…

Redmond Lights

Redmond Downtown Park (also Esterra Park) 16101 NE 85th St, Redmond

Redmond's winter festival is more art show than Christmas display: a month of illuminated installations by local and regional artists in Downtown Park and Overlake's Esterra…

Free

Christmas Ships Parade

Willamette and Columbia rivers (riverfront parks and restaurants) Portland

Volunteer skippers have strung their boats with lights and cruised the rivers every December for about seven decades, and the fleets sail most nights from December…

Free