posts by Alec Clayton
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Other Desert Cities, a family drama from Pulitzer-Prize-nominee Jon Robin Baitz, opens July 8 at Olympia Little Theatre. Other Desert Cities tells the story of Brooke Wyeth (played by Silva Goetz), whose conservative Hollywood family gathers for a Christmas reunion in Palm Springs with her father (a former Western …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Other Desert Cities, a family drama from Pulitzer-Prize-nominee Jon Robin Baitz, opens July 8 at Olympia Little Theatre. Other Desert Cities tells the story of Brooke Wyeth (played by Silva Goetz), whose conservative Hollywood family gathers for a Christmas reunion in Palm Springs with her father (a former Western …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS A Benefit for Orlando Tacoma Little Theatre (TLT) is producing a one-night-only reading of The Laramie Project on June 26 as a benefit for the survivors of the massacre in Orlando. Directed by Rachel Fitzgerald, who is also one of the many actors to perform, the pulling together of this …
OLY ARTS Editor Alec Clayton is an artist and writer. In addition to being the editor of and writing for OLY ARTS, he has written art and theater reviews and other feature articles for the Weekly Volcano, The News Tribune, Art Access, The Olympian, and Thurston Talk. His published novels include “Teacher,” “Tupelo,” the three …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Local theater company Harlequin Productions has a love affair going with playwright Israel Horovitz. It began with a surprise email the playwright sent to Harlequin co-founder Scot Whitney early in 2009. For Whitney it goes back much further than that, to sometime in the late 1980s. Whitney and his …