The story of '70s hitmaker Helen Reddy is given the standard, time-honored biopic treatment in this film, which checks off just about every cliche imaginable, and yet wins us over, in large part due to the...
For a musical as chock-full of razzle-dazzle dance numbers and showstopping songs, A Chorus Line...
Welcome to another edition of Three Easy Pieces, where I look at a pocket of pop culture and see...
Best of Olympia 2020: Olympia Film Society
Olympia is a city with a lot of things to be proud of, but one of its most invaluable...
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Best of Olympia 2020: An Illiad
James O'Barr is producing and directing and Scott Douglas is acting in An Illiad, an intense, captivating and intelligent one-man play about the Trojan War and, ultimately, every war since, written by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare. All the...
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Best of Olympia 2019: Harlequin Productions and Olympia Family Theater
It's a tie. And rightfully so, because the theaters our readers chose as best in Olympia are two very different theaters that appeal to different audiences (with significant overlap), and they are each excellent in what they do -- easily equal in...
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Best of Olympia 2019: Elizabeth Lord
It's not Elizabeth Lord's first time receiving accolades from Weekly Volcano readers, having won the title of Best Actress multiple times. This does mark the first instance, though, where she's also laying claim to Arts Scene MVP. It only makes...
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Best of Olympia 2019: Jen and Ted Ryle
Last year, Olympia Family Theater was recognized with an Excellence in the Arts Award in a gala at The Washington Center for the Performing Arts. This year, we choose the amazing couple behind the success of OFT as our Best Theater Couple: Jen...
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Best of Olympia 2019: Unloaded Comedy
A 2012 survey by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and the Partnership at Drugfree.org found as many as 23.5 million Americans, about one in 10 adults, have at one time had difficulty regulating their use of...
When Chris Serface became managing artistic director of Tacoma Little Theatre (TLT) May 1, 2013,...
With the launch of McMenamins Elks Temple in May, downtown Tacoma saw the re-opening of a civic...
It's a tie. And rightfully so, because the theaters our readers chose as best in Olympia are two...
They might be plays and they might be short stories or works in progress, but whatever they are,...
It's not Elizabeth Lord's first time receiving accolades from Weekly Volcano readers, having won...