Theatre Puget Sound audition listing service. Members can also request to be emailed audition announcements automatically as they become available. Arts Crush is a monthlong festival throughout the Puget Sound region, featuring hundreds of events in theatre, dance, literature, music and visual arts. It is managed by Theatre Puget Sound in cooperation with a consortium of arts organizations from across Western Washington. Since 2004, Theatre Puget Sound has run a stage at Seattle's annual Bumbershoot festival, highlighting local companies and providing an outlet for them to showcase their productions before an audience of thousands. TPS holds yearly general auditions, which are attended by
Puget Sound sea urchins, and sand dollars. Dungeness crabs ("Metacarcinus magister") occur throughout Washington waters, including Puget Sound. Many bivalves occur in Puget Sound, such as Pacific oysters ("Crassostrea gigas") and geoduck clams ("Panopea generosa"). The Olympia oyster ("Ostreola conchaphila"), once common in Puget Sound, was depleted by human activities during the 20th century. There are ongoing efforts to restore Olympia oysters in Puget Sound. There are many seabird species of Puget Sound. Among these are grebes such as the western grebe ("Aechmophorus occidentalis"); loons such as the common loon ("Gavia immer"); auks such as the pigeon guillemot ("Cepphus columba"), rhinoceros auklet