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If you're the sort of theatergoer who lives for the umpteen-thousandth revival of The Odd Couple, then I recommend you let The Floating World at Pacific Lutheran University float on by. While there's nothing wrong with escapist entertainment, director Brian Desmond and his talented cast have swung for the fences.
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If you're the sort of theatergoer who lives for the umpteen-thousandth revival of The Odd Couple, then I recommend you let The Floating World at Pacific Lutheran University float on by. While there's nothing wrong with escapist entertainment, director Brian Desmond and his talented cast have swung for the fences.
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Border Songs, the novel that won Jim Lynch the 2010 Washington State Book Award (not to mention the coveted Best Writer status in our recent Best of Olympia edition!), has now been adapted into a stage play by local playwright Bryan Willis. This version was produced through Saint
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I'd never set foot in Lacey's Tofu Hut until you selected it Best Restaurant of the Year. I'll be honest: it was the name. I've never been a huge fan of tofu, and I don't expect killer cuisine from a hut. Even numerous recommendations from colleagues, in print and in
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When I asked about his creative influences, Josh Anderson mused, "I read Marc Chagall's biography, My Life in Art, and he talks about how, in order to truly create, we have to treat each day-to-day experience as if it were art." He and Mariella Luz are living art, their working
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When Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rolls into Olympia on Presidents Day to give a lecture on "The True Cost of War," he will arrive with antiwar bona fides unmatched in any recent Congress. Last March, he put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives
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When Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rolls into Olympia on Presidents Day to give a lecture on "The True Cost of War," he will arrive with antiwar bona fides unmatched in any recent Congress. Last March, he put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives that would've required
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It's not completely accurate to call Parallel Lives, formerly known as The Kathy (Najimy) and Mo (Gaffney) Show, a sketch comedy, as it isn't very funny for long stretches of time - often intentionally. It's more like an evening of two-person scenes, several of which are comic,
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It's not completely accurate to call Parallel Lives, formerly known as The Kathy (Najimy) and Mo (Gaffney) Show, a sketch comedy, as it isn't very funny for long stretches of time - often intentionally. It's more like an evening of two-person scenes, several of which are comic, most of which
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In a startling turn of events, Tacoma Little Theatre announced Sunday that its managing artistic director, Scott Campbell, has resigned from that company, effective immediately. Campbell held the same post at Lakewood Playhouse before moving to TLT about two years ago. At the time Campbell accepted the job at TLT, it was widely known that
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Photojournalist and documentarian Melanie Burford was a member of The Dallas Morning News photo team that won a Pulitzer for its 2006 coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She returned last spring to document the human cost of the BP disaster, and next week she's taking a break from her teaching
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Photojournalist and documentarian Melanie Burford was a member of The Dallas Morning News photo team that won a Pulitzer for its 2006 coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She returned to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast last spring to document the human cost of the BP disaster, and next week she's taking
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In Deborah Lynn Frockt's adaptation as produced by Olympia Family Theater, Alice passes through the frame of her own portrait; which is, to be fair, no more nor less plausible than falling down a rabbit hole into a room of space-time portals. Frockt's retelling follows Carroll's
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where -" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. -Lewis
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I'll be honest: ordinarily there are few subjects I'm less excited about covering than job fairs. I've been to a few bloated, résumé-tossing cattle calls in my time, and I find them utterly soul-crushing. But the Olympia Volunteer Center sent the cluttered, taco-scented Weekly Volcano head office a pitch that
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The Schwartz siblings have gathered in late winter in the Catskills to commemorate their father's yahrzeit, the one-year anniversary of his death. We come to learn Manny Schwartz was a proud Jew but a difficult man. His DNA recurs most strongly in daughter Norma (Ann Flannigan),
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Linda Whitney, director of the Harlequin production of The Last Schwartz, references Tolstoy in her director's notes: "Happy families are all the same; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Yet it's the work of another Russian writer that is stamped most indelibly here.The Schwartz siblings have gathered
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It's not every day I'm treated to a guided tour of an alien world. About 2,600 years ago, a temple priest by the name of Ankh-Wennefer died near the age of 60, probably from internal bleeding from a broken pelvis. His name, of course, meant "Jennifer's obnoxious hieroglyphic tattoo." (Just kidding.
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What's unusual about The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, aside from its lack of an intermission (the show clocked in at two hours less a minute), is that some of its lines and even structure are ad-libbed. Four audience members (were some of them plants? I
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I don't think I've ever seen an arts organization make a more swift and dramatic turnaround than Capital Playhouse. Is it weird to say I'm proud of them? For years I sat through shows that could've, should've been better, with listless or dissonant performances from actors I knew could act.
