A non-profit performing arts group called Seattle Public Theater has been selected by the Seattle Parks and Recreation to operate as the new tenant in the Bathhouse building at Green Lake. The Bathhouse building lost its previous tenant, the Bathhouse Theatre, when the struggling theater company went bankrupt in February of last year.

The Seattle Public Theater is an 11-year-old community theater that has been operating without a permanent venue for its public performances. In making its recommendation to Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Ken Bounds, the department's selection panel cited the Seattle Public Theater's "creative expertise, proposed involvement in the community, ethnically-diverse company of players, (and) inclusion of youth."

The Bathhouse building, located on the north shore of Green Lake, was built in 1928 and converted to arts and theater use in the late 1960s.

The Parks Department said it will continue to offer opportunities for other community and arts collaborators to use the Bathhouse building as well.