🗓️ Friday, Jan. 30-Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026
📍 Marion Oliver McCaw Hall: 321 Mercer St., Seattle
💰 $40-$240
The clock is chiming midnight 🕰️ the door mice are surprisingly talkative 🐭and the pumpkins in the garden are looking suspiciously carriage-like 🎃… “Cinderella” is sweeping her way into Seattle in spectacular style.
Kent Stowell’s “Cinderella” at Pacific Northwest Ballet combines the story you know and love with splendid choreography, Prokofiev’s familiar score and superb design. Audiences travel with Cinderella from her wistful fireside, through a magical fairyland to a dazzling palace ball — and ultimately find themselves swept away by this fairy tale packed with romance, humor and beauty.
Stowell’s “Cinderella” is unlike the iterations that came before it. Many modern productions follow in the footsteps of Frederick Ashton’s 1948 production for the Royal Ballet, which emphasizes theatricality and leans closer to comedic tragedy.
Stowell’s production for PNB, first choreographed and performed in 1994, takes a tender, romantic focus, with an emphasis on the contrast between Cinderella’s real world and dream world. Stowell also pulls pieces of musical score from Prokofiev other works, like “The Love for Three Oranges” and “Eugene Onegin” to help build narrative continuity through the ballet.
With gorgeous costumes by Martin Pakledinaz and glittering sets by Tony Straiges, 18th-century France comes to life in this romantic fairy tale tailor-made for modern audiences.
This February, fall in love with Cinderella all over again at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Tickets at PNB.org.
Pro tip:
🎟️ PNB is hosting a series of special events to celebrate “Cinderella,” including behind-the-scenes sneak peeks, talks on all things ballet before the performance, opportunities to meet the artists after the show and even an opening night dinner on Jan. 30.
