The Northwest Playwrights Alliance's Double Shot Play Fest is a chance for local scribes to show off and, just as important, for the organization to make a little spending cash. Consider this: eager writers go to work the evening before the festival, as that's when they're handed the topic for a brand-new, 10-minute play. A troupe of actors arrives at Broadway Center the next morning to rehearse the resulting scripts for a 7:30 opening that night. Then the same plays are performed at a 2 p.m. Sunday matinée. This year, in a welcome shift toward marginalized voices, the writers, directors, and repertory cast are all women.
Read Christian Carvajal's full feature on the Double Shot Play Fest in the Music & Culture section.
DOUBLE SHOT PLAY FEST, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18-19, Theatre on the Square, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, $8, 253.591.5890
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