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Who is Sylvia? Well, she's a goat. There are no spoilers there. Edward Albee's play is titled The Goat or Who is Sylvia? So I'll just lay that out. Sylvia is the goat. And Christopher Cantrell plays Martin, and Martin is the man, and the man is having sex with
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Who is Sylvia? Well, she's a goat. There are no spoilers there. Edward Albee's play is titled The Goat or Who is Sylvia? So I'll just lay that out. Sylvia is the goat. And Christopher Cantrell plays Martin, and Martin is the man, and the man is having sex with the
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The Outfit Theatre Project made its debut a year ago being silly in public, producing Joe's Diner as a fundraiser for Lakewood Playhouse. Billed as an "improv sitcom," the event was, by all accounts, an unprecedented success. Extra rows of seats were added, fire codes were flexed and
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It's been a few weeks since financial experts decided the recession was officially on its way out, and times are still hard all over. Jobs lost, homes devalued. And when everyone is struggling to make ends meet, the urge to spend money to watch three hours of depressing drama, however
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The second annual Tacoma Craft Beer Festival, running Oct. 1 and 2, boasts 50 breweries and more than 100 beers, along with bands, games and food. Read my full story here. Tacoma Craft Beer Festival Oct. 1-2, 5-9 p.m. Friday, noon-8 p.m. Saturday, 21+, $18 advance, $25 day ofFoss Waterway Seaport, 705
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Here, in a nutshell, is the conversation that created the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival: "We should put on a beer festival here in Tacoma," said Red Hot proprietor Chris Miller. "Why?" asked his cohorts, Bennett Thurmon and Roxanne Wolfe. "Because there isn't one." At least, that's how it was told to me, over a
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In any Sherlock Holmes story, there is a set of core elements the common viewer has come to expect. I intend common to mean those like me, who have never read one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original novels, and knows Holmes the legend, Holmes the detective archetype, more than
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There are a number of things that make a play difficult to review: complexities of plot; subtleties of theme; good plays with bad actors and bad plays with good actors. And then there are shows like Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, which is difficult to review simply because I don't want to give
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There are a number of things that make a play difficult to review: complexities of plot; subtleties of theme; good plays with bad actors and bad plays with good actors. And then there are shows like Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, which is difficult to review simply because I don't want to
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William Shakespeare's As You Like It opens thus: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." With Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, playwright Tom Stoppard addresses this philosophy on a deeper level: If all the world is a stage, then what happens in the wings? Where
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The Outfit Theatre Company is 11 friends and colleagues who want to make the kind of theater that they want to make. This may seem like a pointless tautology, but in the world of commercial theater, survival often requires a single-minded focus on what other people want. "It's really difficult to do
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Brunch, a new play by local actor, director, and playwright Elliot Weiner, tells the story of three friends; three friends with a long-standing tradition of monthly brunch together, interrupted by a sequence of new additions, ranging from a pregnant girlfriend to a psychiatrist. ... Now here's the
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Brunch, a new play by local actor, director, and playwright Elliot Weiner, tells the story of three friends; three friends with a long-standing tradition of monthly brunch together, interrupted by a sequence of new additions, ranging from a pregnant girlfriend to a psychiatrist. ... Now here's the trouble with the play:
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For a long time, the only Coffin Break songs I had in my possession were "Kill The President," and covers of "Free Bird" and "We Can Work It Out." I had no idea where these stood in their popular songs – I was younger than 10 in their heyday of
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There are far too many people who would be ashamed to say they like something as fundamentally shallow and conventional as AC/DC, but I'm not one of them. I think this is part of why I've grown to love Big Wheel Stunt Show. They don't sound like AC/DC, per
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Community theater actors come in a number of types. There are the classical amateurs, who can memorize their lines and speak them loudly and clearly, still a step above many of us but without much art. There are the painful over-actors, whose version of performance is to put on a
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Seattle music and arts festival Bumbershoot - which will be held Saturday, Sept. 4 through Monday, Sept. 6 at the Seattle Center - released a salvo of its 40th anniversary lineup this morning. Here's a quick sound off on my picks for maximum awesomeness: Bob Dylan (Saturday): Say what you want
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With John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, newly founded Tacoma theater company Gold From Straw jumps directly into the deep end of the theatrical pool. Doubt is carefully designed to raise questions and avoid answers. The audience is permitted to come to their own conclusions, if they wish, but that is not
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With John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, newly founded Tacoma theater company Gold From Straw jumps directly into the deep end of the theatrical pool. Doubt is carefully designed to raise questions and avoid answers. The audience is permitted to come to their own conclusions, if they wish, but that is not
