The Lincoln Theatre is a cultural resource for the greater Skagit County area. We serve as a venue for quality cinema, educational programs, live performing artists, and exhibitions of fine art. We also, on occasion, sponsor or co-sponsor events that we believe to be of interest to our community. In all cases, the Lincoln strives to ensure that your theatre experience is enjoyable and entertaining.

Cinematographers, educators, performing artists, fine artists and others present their programs free of censorship or interference from the Lincoln Theatre. We are not arbiters of taste. Neither do we purport to define the values of our community or its individual citizens. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors, artists, and speakers and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions held by the Board of Directors, staff, volunteers, or members of the Lincoln Theatre Center Foundation.

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Now Playing
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Wednesday, Jul 23, 6:30 pm

The Metropolitan Opera is pleased to offer you the opportunity to participate in Summer Encores – a series of six past Live in HD performances at bargain prices.
 
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (originally transmitted December 15, 2007)
 
The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna as the star-crossed young couple. Their performances brought audiences to their feet in both the opera house and in movie theaters. Gounod’s ultra-sensual interpretation of Shakespeare also features Nathan Gunn as Mercutio and Plácido Domingo on the podium.
 

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Albert Lee
Thursday, Jul 24, 7:30 pm

The Albert Lee Band presented by the Lincoln Theatre and the Rick Epting Foundation.
 
British Guitar legend Albert Lee, regarded by many as one of the world’s finest guitar players, with a career spanning more than 50 years, needs no introduction to Country Music, Blues and Rock fans.   Widely hailed for his finger-style and hybrid picking technique, Albert Lee helped to redefine country guitar for a whole generation of players with his song "Country Boy."   Albert’s many career highlights include two Grammy wins, 5 years in the Eric Clapton band (at Clapton's request Albert recently played the Crossroads Festival with Eric at Madison Square Garden in April) and stints with the Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman, The Crickets, 25 years with the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and many more.

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Coming Attractions

Locke
MV Library presents The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
MV Library presents The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Cheryl Bentyne
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Belle
Monty Python Live (mostly)
Words and Pictures
Porterhouse Brewfest 2014
Venus in Fur
Lucky Them
NT Live: Medea
NT Live 2013 -14 Season contiues with...

National Theatre Live launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of the National Theatre production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren and the Lincoln Theatre has been there from the start. They've since broadcast more than twenty other productions live from the National Theatre, and on occasion other theatres in the UK and we've screened them all

Past broadcasts include Danny Boyle's Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, One Man, Two Guvnors with James Corden and The Last of the Haussmans with Julie Walters. This season has included Coriolanus and War Horse and now NT Live has just announced four additional broadcasts for this season that we are excited to present: King Lear, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (encore broadcast), A Small Family Business and Medea.

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In the Art Bar - Paul Blum

After 40-some years of a rewarding but stressful career in nursing (32 years as an RN at Skagit Valley Hospital), I retired in 2008 and began painting in oil.  Where nursing involved control, exactitude, planning and attention to detail, painting allowed me to loosen control, to experiment, to play without restraint or concern for consequences.
 

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