By Molly Walsh This is on page 14-15 of OLY ARTS Summer 2024 print edition. Lining the shores of Commencement Bay in Tacoma, the Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park is home to the annual Tacoma Moon Festival, an event that commemorates the multicultural makeup of the South Sound and beyond. At the Tacoma Moon Festival, community …
This is on page 16-17 of OLY ARTS Summer 2024 print edition. ANIMAL FIRE THEATRE COMPANY WHAT: Shakespeare’s Henry IVWHERE: Wonderwood Park, 5304 32nd Ave SE, LaceyWHEN: Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings from July 5-28HOW MUCH: FreeLEARN MORE: animalfiretheatre.com BALLET NORTHWEST WHAT: Young Choreographers ShowcaseWHERE: Capital High School Performing Arts Center2707 Conger Ave NW, OlympiaWHEN: …
“More than the well-known 1972 film with Liz Minnelli and Joel Grey, the stage musical digs deep into what the rise of the Third Reich meant in the lives of the German people. Cabaret, finally, is a warning,” said Aaron Lambe, Harlequin’s artistic director of their performance playing June 28 to July 28 in their remodeled theater.
At “LoveOly SummerFest 2024” running June 21-23, there are family-friendly activities like the much-beloved Pet Parade and live performances from Oly Family Theatre. There’s an impressive line-up for the music stage featuring two days of more than a dozen local and regional bands and musicians.
Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s “From the Mississippi Delta” Tacoma Little Theatre through June 23 is punctuated by song and is drawn from the lives of African American people living in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era. Photo of Sonia Alexis & Whitney Crawford by Dennis K Photography.
The Shoestring Circus, a one-of-a-kind, all-human circus experience headquartered in Bellingham, will debut in Olympia with more than a dozen local performances from June 28 to July 7. Audience members can expect family-friendly humor and acrobatics all set to a “medieval fantasy” storyline.
The theme of the latest exhibition at the Goldberg Building windows in downtown Olympia is a celebration of our local community featuring works by China Star, Kelly Watson, Daisy Curley and Aaron Zonka. It is beautifully executed and displayed in a variety of styles and media. It will be on view now through the month of July in the windows at Fourth Avenue and Capital Way.
“One of the cool things about zines is that there aren’t really any rules,” says Aggie Burstein, curator of Timberland Regional Library’s Zine Library and chief organizer of the Teeny Tiny Zine Fair, whose own definition doesn’t go further than “an independently created publication that anyone can make, about anything, for any reason.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at Olympia Family Theater comprises both young and not-so-young actors, smoothly stirred into a well-tuned ensemble; part of the fun of watching it is the speed and energy with which the story is rolled out, almost like street theater, or commedia, or circus.
Theatre Artists Olympia’s The King in Yellow, a world premiere play by Olympia playwright and actor Xander Layden, runs through May 26 at OlyTheater in Capital Mall. The first act is an intelligent and funny comedy of manners with hints of something else beneath the surface. Act Two is an edge-of-your-seat horror show.