Submitted by Susanne Bacon. The first time I was ever aware that there are such things as topical programs to orchestral music, I was in fifth grade. Our music teacher told us just to listen and try to figure what we were listening to. I was bewitched by the piece, and though I can’t remember […]
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Homeless Neighbors – A Sad Ending
A friend wrote me this over the weekend: “Today, for a third time, I attended a memorial for homeless neighbors who died while living on our streets. A name read, a bell rung. Anonymous to most, neighbors to some, family members to others. Homeless people die about 28 years younger than those who are housed. […]
God Said This – Play Review – Dukesbay Theater
God Said This is a play about sickness, death, petty remembrances, and love. The play addresses the lives of Japanese Americans. The author herself, Leah Nanako Winkler, is a Japanese American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her play God Said This won the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize. She is a recipient of […]
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder – Musical Review – Tacoma Musical Playhouse
“Set in London in 1907, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder centers on Monty Navarro, a penniless clerk who is informed after the death of his mother that he is ninth in line to inherit the earldom of Highhurst, controlled by the wealthy D’Ysquith banking family. After an imperious ruling from the head of […]
Edge of America – Film Review
Storyline:Based on a true story, a black educator takes a job teaching high-school English at the Three Nations Reservation, and is coaxed into coaching the girls’ basketball team. Here is the official trailer: I’m a little confused on the reservation location. Although the reservation known as Three Nations Reservation is in North Dakota, the greatest […]
Dollar Tree Finally Open Again
Our heart was broken about 15 months ago when the roof collapsed on the Dollar Tree at Highland Hill in Tacoma. My wife and I have been waiting for them to re-open ever since. In the mean time we have used the Dollar Tree in Spanaway, Dollar Tree on Pacific, Dollar Tree by Target, University […]
Across the Fence: Sound Beacons
It might be an open secret that my husband and I love exploring. Anywhere we go, but also anywhere we stay. Washington State has to offer lots of marvelous sights, and over the years, I have shared quite a few places you might find interesting. What you might not know about yet is our love […]
Murder for Two – A Musical Review
Lavinia Hart contributed to this review. The Harlequin Theatre’s current production, Murder for Two, is a raucous, free-wheeling murder mystery in the genre of Physical Theatre. Two actors, he truth of this genre is that the literary value of the text ranks low in merit compared to the amazing physical theatre antics from two highly […]
Smoke, Mirrors, Pathos, and Ambition – The Magic of A Chorus Line – Review
Peg and I saw A Chorus Line at Tacoma Little Theatre two years ago . . . it did so well, they were bringing it back at the end of the season, however COVID darkened our lives and our theatres here in Tacoma and around the world. We’ve been waiting for A Chorus Line ever […]