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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…

International Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker

Meydenbauer Center Theatre 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue

If McCaw Hall feels far from the Eastside, Bellevue's own Nutcracker plays the Meydenbauer Center Theatre for two weeks before Christmas. International Ballet Theatre roots its…

Oy Vey in a Manger with The Kinsey Sicks

Everett Performing Arts Center 2710 Wetmore Ave, Everett

The Kinsey Sicks, the drag a cappella group billed as America's favorite beautyshop trio, have been skewering everything in sight for more than 30 years. Their…

$27

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show in Tacoma

Pantages Theater 901 Broadway, Tacoma

Seattle's own Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme have turned their holiday show into an annual tour, and this year it stops at Tacoma's ornate Pantages Theater on…

Santa Trains at the Northwest Railway Museum

Snoqualmie Depot and North Bend Depot 38625 SE King St, Snoqualmie

The Northwest Railway Museum has run Santa trains through the Snoqualmie Valley every year since 1969. Families pick between two rides. The 40-minute Yuletide Express leaves…

The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp

Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center 20800 Marine Dr, Stanwood

For its 30th season, the Northwest's big Christmas light festival at Warm Beach Camp, north of Marysville near Stanwood, becomes mainly a walking event. Guests stroll…

$16 – $35

Holiday Express at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center

Oregon Rail Heritage Center 2250 SE Water Ave, Portland

Heritage rail cars leave the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in the Central Eastside for a short holiday excursion, with Santa and his elves working the heated…

$25 – $35
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

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

Occidental Square Holiday Ice Rink and Holiday Bazaar

Occidental Square 117 S Washington St, Seattle

Pioneer Square's tree-lined plaza gets a free pop-up ice rink for nine days in December, presented by Alaska Airlines, with loaner skates included. It's open noon…

Free

Peacock Lane Holiday Lights

Peacock Lane (between SE Belmont & SE Stark) SE Peacock Ln, Portland

One block of Tudor-style houses in Southeast Portland has gone all-out for the holidays for generations, and the whole city still turns up to walk it.…

Free

Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition

Pioneer Courthouse Square and surrounding blocks 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland

For two hours on a Friday night, caroling groups fan out across a ten-block radius of downtown and sing in front of shops, restaurants and hotels,…

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