#paradisetheatre Archives - Drama In The Hood

Requiem for the End of a Beloved Community Theatre

Did the night seem a little diminished last evening? The expanse of the sky a bit dimmer? The darkness a […]

Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits is almost 40 years old, having first been performed in 1982. (Can you believe it, kids?

Kim Hastings / January 16, 2020

“Barefoot in the Park” is a Broadway stage hit by Neil Simon that many people don’t realize is a play

Kim Hastings / November 25, 2019

The comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie,” started its long and successful run in 1924. A staple for over four decades,

Kim Hastings / September 23, 2019

From its time as a newborn in the mind of cartoonist Charles Addams to its time in the New Yorker

“Mamma Mia” was born many years ago in the work of the Swedish pop group “Abba.” It took shape as

I’m not going to say that theater-lovers are more knowledgable about history than non-theater lovers. That would be a conceit

Regular readers of Drama in the Hood know the story of Paradise Theatre. Priced out of their home by a

Kim Hastings / January 13, 2019

The Diary of Anne Frank was a specific recounting of a specific time in world history. But it wouldn’t be

Kim Hastings / November 25, 2018

If there was an award for pluckiest theater in the South Sound, West Pierce County’s Paradise Theatre would be the