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Zealot readers of this column already know the absolute high regard I have for Tacoma Little Theatre’s new Managing Artistic Director Scott Campbell. I have gushed about him so much that one would think I owe him money. I don’t, by the way. Campbell has that golden touch TLT needs
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I don’t really know what to say about this show. It is brilliant and silly and true to life and absurd all at the same time. On balance, it was certainly a thinker of a play and that makes it a great play in my book. Mating Dance of the Werewolf
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I don’t really know what to say about this show. It is brilliant and silly and true to life and absurd all at the same time. On balance, it was certainly a thinker of a play and that makes it a great play in my book. Mating Dance of
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So I was wondering what I was going to write my column about this week and was chatting with some actress friends of mine about the state of modern theater. They lamented about there not being a lot of great roles for woman that don't involve being a vixen, hooker,
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The 5th Avenue Theatre hosted the world premiere of Catch Me If You Can, a Broadway-bound musical based on the true-life story of one of the best con artists of the modern age. The story was a book and then a movie that stared Leonardo DeCaprio and Tom Hanks. Now
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The 5th Avenue Theatre hosted the world premiere of Catch Me If You Can, a Broadway-bound musical based on the true-life story of one of the best con artists of the modern age. The story was a book and then a movie that stared Leonardo DeCaprio and Tom Hanks. Now
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My daughter attended Lakewood Playhouse's Youth Theater Camp last week and ended the week with a performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, an hour-long show pulled together and memorized in just five days. It was cute and campy, and of course, the very talented girl playing the role of Mike
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So as a confession of full disclosure as a journalist, I have state that I had a few drinks with the cast of Lakewood Playhouse's production of Angry Housewives after the show, but did not talk about the show or theater. Most of the chatter centered on the cute La
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Ok, a bit of my history with Wizard of Oz is likely in order. I was a winged monkey in the Department of Defense’s Camp Walker Community Theater-Taegu, South Korea production of the show some 30 years ago. I had a bit part where my wings were painted with florescent
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I do so love community theater, with all of its quirks and spirit. There is just something about the whole “let’s put on a show” sort of vibe in a community theater that’s absent from a theater where all of the actors are professional with paychecks attached to their performances. Since
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I have written more than a few lines during the passing years about the rise of children's theater and youth programs offered at the Sound Sound's community theaters. How these programs fill the gaps in local school programs decimated by budget cuts. How youth theater pushes the arts forward while
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Sixties Chicks was one of those shows I was looking forward to seeing the way high school girls wait for prom night. I wanted to see this show, especially considering Harlequin Productions has a long and strong history of staging great musicals. So it was with that tradition in mind that
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Director Brett Carr has taken this Tacoma Little Theatre production of The Buddy Holly Story to a high level by using the theater’s revolving stage as a transition device. The show flows from one scene to the next. The stage becomes a recording studio or Holly’s house with a flick
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I like a theater that has a mind and character of its own — the sort of theater that is expected to stage the unexpected. The Horatio Theater in Tacoma was just that sort of theater before it hit a series of snags that slowed the vision — but it's
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I was active in theater all through high school, not only because I wasn’t really good at sports and wanted to be active in something. But the theater club was where the girls were. Momma didn’t raise no fool. I not only fell in love time and again with those
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So I managed to hop into Tacoma Little Theatre last weekend to see its take on The Buddy Holly Story. Frankly, my expectations weren’t high because I know that the theater is continuing to rebuild itself after a few tough years. I have to say that the show well exceeded my
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I have written about the challenges and opportunities Lakewood Playhouse directors face when they stage shows in the theater’s in-the-round performance space. The staging has to be sharp since the actors have to keep members of the audience on every side of them engaged and entertained even when at least one
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Having reviewed South Sound theater in one form or another coming up on what will be 15 years next month, I have seen theaters come and go, evolve or die, and stage some good theater — and some not good theater — along the way. One arm of theater
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So much about enjoying beer has to do with the atmosphere, activities or munchies that go along with the particular brew. Summer beers mean hotdogs, burgers, sun worshipping and patio beer sipping. While the waterfronts in Tacoma, Ruston, Steilacoom and Olympia have a smattering of locations to sip beer while watching
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So much about enjoying beer has to do with the atmosphere, activities or munchies that go along with the particular brew. Summer beers mean hotdogs, burgers, sun worshipping and patio beer sipping. While the waterfronts in Tacoma, Ruston, Steilacoom and Olympia have a smattering of locations to sip beer while watching
