My Antonia Tells a Gentle American Pastoral at the Book-It Theatre
My Antonia is a memory. Told by protagonist Jim Burden, the play unfolds as a much older man recalls his life […]
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Veils
To Veil or not to Veil, that is the Question.
Is the topic of the play Veils, which opened at West of Lenin produced by Macha Theatre Works. Written byTom Coash, a former professor at the American University of Cairo, where the play takes place just prior to the Arab Spring in 2010 and 2011. It has multiple layers of conflict, focused around whether Muslim women should wear the traditional to veil or not; and almost all the complex nuances of this issue.
‘Rapunzel’ a Raucous Good Time at Centerstage
Webster’s defines “pantomime” as: “a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by
PREVIEW Sandbox Radio’s New Year’s Show
Sandbox Radio Returns to ACTLab with Some New Year’s Resolutions, December 30
Sandbox Radio returns to ACTLab with the latest installment of their one night only, wildly popular radio show. Sandbox Radio: Resolutions, will be recorded live for podcast in The Falls Theatre at ACT on December 30.
This latest episode will feature musical guests Puget Soundworks, a special appearance by Lisa Koch, writing from Scot Augustson, Elizabeth Heffron, Wayne Rawley and more. The Sandbox Radio players will include Eric Ray Anderson, David Gehrman, Sarah Harlett, Rachel Guyer-Mafune, Jason Marr, Pamela Reed, Karen Skrinde, Dan Tierney, Lisa Viertel, Bob Williams, and Marta Zekan, accompanied by the Sandbox Radio Orchestra featuring Angie Louise (Piano), Mike Catts and Dave Pascal (Bass), Troy Lund (Drums), Dave Marriott (Trombone), and Robertson Witmer (Accordion/Clarinet), with musical direction by Angie Louise of The Love Markets.
Nothing Dull About In the Grey City
Some places talk about the weather, but here in our own corner of the Pacific Northwest Seattlelites have a different
‘White Christmas’ a Wheelhouse Hit for Tacoma Musical Playhouse
First-year Communications majors are told one thing the first day of class. “Know your audience.” These three words are the
Miss Bennet- A Roaring Success
Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy may have gotten their happily ever after some two hundred years ago, but
A Taffeta Christmas Too Much Fun with Paradise Theatre
If there was an award for pluckiest theater in the South Sound, West Pierce County’s Paradise Theatre would be the
Yes, Virginia, There is a Lovely Play About You in Lakewood
How many letters written 121 years ago resonate today? Drama in the Hood suspects very few. But, there is much
A Classic Novel Gets the Disney Treatment in the Entertaining but Blunt Jane Eyre: The Musical
Charlotte Brontë’s gothic 1847 novel Jane Eyre is one of those great, perfectly constructed 500-page bricks that’s almost impossible to