Susan Aurand: Realism Meets Experimentation Meets Mysterious
By ALEC CLAYTON Almost everyone familiar with the Olympia art scene knows – or should know – Susan Aurand’s work. For many years, beginning in […]
Art Takes Flight Inside Hummingbird Studio
By ALEC CLAYTON On a Wednesday morning in November, over 20 people gather around two long tables in downtown Olympia’s Hummingbird Studio. They’re students at […]
Photo Gallery: Ballet Northwest Previews 35th Nutcracker
An exclusive photo gallery by MOLLY WALSH for OLY ARTS. WHAT Ballet Northwest’s The Nutcracker WHERE The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington […]
Music and Light Herald the Winter Solstice with The Olympia Peace Choir
By Karen Lunde When the calendar flips to December, it’s nigh impossible to walk into a store or turn on the TV without hearing endless […]
Student Musicians Spark a Season of Joy and Hope
By Karen Lunde The Washington Center and Minnaert Center stages will ring with the sounds of orchestras and choirs this weekend as Olympia’s student musicians […]
Capital City Chorus Sings Christmas Cheer
by Ned Hayes Carols often become the background mutter of the holidays – old tunes covered by bored pop stars. Yet the joy of hearing […]
Dickens Meets Doyle in Harlequin’s Christmas Carol
By MOLLY GILMORE There’s mystery and magic afoot at Harlequin Productions this season. The company’s Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, opening […]
Ballet Northwest Brings a Holiday Classic to Life
By MOLLY WASH Out of the wings and onto center stage, Ballet Northwest will present its 35th-annual production of The Nutcracker at the Washington Center […]
Photo Gallery: Studio West Dance Theatre Rehearses for The Nutcracker
An exclusive photo gallery by MOLLY WALSH for OLY ARTS. WHAT Studio West Dance Theatre presents The Nutcracker WHEN 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Dec […]
Studio West Dance Theatre Takes a Holiday Classic To Center Stage
By MOLLY WALSH Vignettes of holiday celebrations, royal battles and sugar plum dreams will be illuminated on the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center stage with Studio […]