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Another week, another roundup of great theater on stages around the South Sound. Here are several shows worth watching: Jenifer Lewis stars in one of the best musicals ever written as Hello Dolly takes the 5th Avenue stage for the first time in 27 years. The story follows the tale of

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Another week, another roundup of great theater on stages around the South Sound. Here are several shows worth watching: Jenifer Lewis stars in one of the best musicals ever written as Hello Dolly takes the 5th Avenue stage for the first time in 27 years. The story follows the tale of

Boys beer boost, maybe

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Boys beer boost, maybe

There is some good news and some bad news in the world of bottled beer in the South Sound. It is a matter of one good and two bad, but the good is very good. The big beer news these days is that Tacoma Boys is looking at ways

Boys beer boost, maybe

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Boys beer boost, maybe

There is some good news and some bad news in the world of bottled beer in the South Sound. It is a matter of one good and two bad, but the good is very good. The big beer news these days is that Tacoma Boys is looking at ways

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Troubled Tuesdays

I wanted so much to love Tuesdays with Morrie at Olympia Little Theatre. It is a great script, staged at a great theater, and had a solid cast in the two-man show. Or at least that is what I thought. This touching version of Mitch Albom’s well-known book left my theater

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Troubled Tuesdays

I wanted so much to love Tuesdays with Morrie at Olympia Little Theatre. It is a great script, staged at a great theater, and had a solid cast in the two-man show. Or at least that is what I thought. This touching version of Mitch Albom’s well-known book left my theater

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Holmes!

I always hate it when people can’t explain a movie or theater production. It makes it seem like they didn’t watch the show carefully enough. But after seeing Centerstage Theatre’s production of Crucifer of Blood — A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, by Paul Giovanni and directed by Vince Brady, I can

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Holmes!

I always hate it when people can’t explain a movie or theater production. It makes it seem like they didn’t watch the show carefully enough. But after seeing Centerstage Theatre’s production of Crucifer of Blood — A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, by Paul Giovanni and directed by Vince Brady, I can

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Drinking Liberally

I dig a good beer and a heated political debate. And I found a spot to do both — at the same time. There is a rising national progressive movement that is taking over spots for those folks politically left of the center to meet and plot to take over the

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Crazy feeling

It is because of shows like the one I saw last week in Seattle that I have stayed with this gig for so long. I love seeing actors mature and grow in the craft and watching theater groups blossom in short order. Cayman Ilika is a well-known actor around these parts.

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Crazy feeling

It is because of shows like the one I saw last week in Seattle that I have stayed with this gig for so long. I love seeing actors mature and grow in the craft and watching theater groups blossom in short order. Cayman Ilika is a well-known actor around these parts.

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Good shows

I was talking to a friend the other day about the state of theater in the South Sound. We worried that the failing economy would claim a company or two as theatergoers find themselves holding closer to their wallets than they have in decades. While we feared the worst, we

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Good shows

I was talking to a friend the other day about the state of theater in the South Sound. We worried that the failing economy would claim a company or two as theatergoers find themselves holding closer to their wallets than they have in decades. While we feared the worst, we

Drinking Liberally

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Drinking Liberally

I dig a good beer and a heated political debate. And I found a spot to do both — at the same time. There is a rising national progressive movement that is taking over spots for those folks politically left of the center to meet and plot to take over the

Drinking Liberally

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Drinking Liberally

I dig a good beer and a heated political debate. And I found a spot to do both — at the same time. There is a rising national progressive movement that is taking over spots for those folks politically left of the center to meet and plot to take over the

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Round up

Fuddy Meers It was another busy week for South Sound theater. So in an effort to present you, the Weekly Volcano’s dear readers, with the area’s fine offerings, here is another roundup. The sleeper hit of the week is a little show at a little theater in Olympia. Prodigal Sun is serving

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Round up

Fuddy Meers It was another busy week for South Sound theater. So in an effort to present you, the Weekly Volcano’s dear readers, with the area’s fine offerings, here is another roundup. The sleeper hit of the week is a little show at a little theater in Olympia. Prodigal Sun is serving

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Triple shot

There are too many good shows to highlight just one, so here is a roundup of the solid shows that are in the works at a stage near you. One of the tried and true shows to watch is A Grand Night for Singing, a show at Capital Playhouse running until

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Triple shot

There are too many good shows to highlight just one, so here is a roundup of the solid shows that are in the works at a stage near you. One of the tried and true shows to watch is A Grand Night for Singing, a show at Capital Playhouse running until

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Sin tax

One thing audience members can expect from Harlequin Productions is that its plays will be a journey of some sort. The Olympia theater’s current travel log takes the audience to the town of Gloucester, Mass. The town is dead as the fishing industry has long fallen into the sea, and

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