Creative Theatre Experience: Building Generations of Local Actors
By Molly Gilmore Since it started in 1981, Olympia’s Creative Theatre Experience (CTE) has produced 120 summer shows. It’s also built the confidence and skills […]
Olympia Little Theatre Offers an Equivocal Twist on a Farcical Play
Theatre Review By Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS “Equivocation” at Olympia Little Theatre (OLT) is wild. It is ludicrous. It is funny and tragic and […]
Grammy-nominated Aizuri Quartet: Bringing Us “Home”
By Lucy Volker Kicking off its fifth year as Seattle’s up-and-coming classical music company, Emerald City Music often graces the pages of OLY ARTS with […]
Tacoma Art Museum Receives First Arts Education Grant in Ten Years
By Aigner Loren Wilson This past January, Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) won a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant […]
Number the Stars: A Story of One Girl’s Outstanding Courage
THEATER REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS At least once in every season Olympia Family Theater presents a serious drama in lieu of their […]
The Washington Center Hosts Koresh Dance Company with Help from the National Endowment for the Arts
By Jerica Pender The Koresh Dance Company, an internationally renowned dance troupe, will dance its way into Olympia at the end of March. In a […]
A Tale of Love and Acceptance: Stop Kiss at The Evergreen State College
By Alec Clayton “Stop Kiss,” by Diana Son, was timely and controversial when it debuted off Broadway in 1998 at The Public Theater in New York City. According to […]
Oly Old Time Festival: Evie Ladin and Keith Terry
By Molly Walsh Crossing old-time folk with percussive dance, Oakland, California-based duo Evie Ladin and Keith Terry bring a fresh take to the longstanding old-time-music […]
Oly Old Time Festival: Yodelady
By Molly Walsh A hometown act, Yodelady, has been kindling the traditional music scene in Olympia and surrounding areas since forming in 2010. The members […]
Sharon Styer Collages at Harlequin Productions
ART REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Tacoma artist Sharon Styer is primarily known as a photographer whose photographs of vacant and abandoned buildings, […]