Although we have visited Harlequin in Olympia for more than twenty years, we didn’t really know what to expect with this presentation. We were using this production to introduce my cousin, Lavinia Hart to a different local theatre. Lindy has originated and run a successful theatre in Detroit plus taught drama and directing at Wayne […]
The Panto is Coming to CenterStage with “Puss in Boots”
A Panto is a must for both adults and children and everyone gets to participate . . . CenterStage is located in Northeast Tacoma/Federal Way . . . overlooking Dumas Bay Pantomime (or just “panto”) gets its roots from 15th and 16th-century traditions of Commedia dell Arte, an early form of Italian theatre. The same […]
Easily Entertained by Doing Nothing – An Essay
My wife has joined a strength and balance class as well as an art class at the Senior Center at Baltimore Park in the North End of Tacoma. I drop her off and then come back and wait for her to finish and come out to the parking lot. This happens several times each week. […]
Tribes – Tacoma Arts Live Production Review
Tribes, now playing at Tacoma Arts Live Theatre on the Square offers a play about communication, which in today’s world is a miracle in itself. Butterflies have a life cycle that involve stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. What we have in Tribes, is a young deaf woman living in a family that worships words […]
Tacoma’s Dukesbay Theatre Carving Out Its Own Audience
I think perhaps the acting bug strikes early and stays with you most of your life, whether on the stage or in the audience enjoying the events going on just a few feet or yards away. I’ve come across this notion a number of times from others as well as my own involvement and enjoyment. […]
Chris Serface – Actor, Director, and Administration Expert
Many people involved in the theatre have experienced similar experiences as they were drawn into all the aspects of acting and directing. I’ve known Chris Serface since he joined the Rotary Club of Tacoma #8. Chris shared an early involvement, “The first experience that I remember of being on stage in a theatrical way was […]
Clue On Stage – Play Review – Tacoma Little Theatre
Life’s a game and some thing’s afoot. The time is 1954, when McCarthyism was condemning people and naming names whether they were guilty of anything or weren’t. . . “I’m not a communist, I’m a Republican.” The play is based on Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 movie, which is based on the Hasbro board game “Clue” with […]
The Blue Room – A wonderful Song by Richard Rogers
We’ve had a piano in almost every apartment we rented and home we owned since Peg and I were married. When we lived at 915½ South K Street, there was an upright piano that came with the apartment. Peg remembers: In the summer when the windows were open, Don was playing and someone yelled up […]
Out of the Wild – Modern Day Western Film Review
Storyline: “Out of the Wild is the story of Henry McBride, a down and out cowboy with a painful past he can’t drink away. Living on his last dollar with nowhere to go, he ends up working the last place an old cowboy wants to be: A dude ranch. It is here he meets the […]