At Olympia Family Theater, No One’s Too Small to Make a Difference
By JONAH BARRETT “Picking the new season is one of the hardest parts of my job,” said Jen Ryle of Olympia Family Theater (OFT), “and […]
Updating Volpone for the 21st Century
By Alec Clayton Actor, director, writer and now public school teacher Christian Carvajal has written a play that will have a reading at La Vida […]
Shakespeare’s The Tempest Storms into Olympia’s Port Plaza
THEATER REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS The Tempest — third and final of this area’s outdoor-summer-Shakespeare plays — opened Thursday, August 15 at […]
The Tempest at Port Plaza
by Tom Simpson William Shakespeare will return to the South Sound this summer with an exceptional production of his classic, magical romance The Tempest at […]
All 100 Fires: Experimental Theater by Theater Maestra Donna Oblongata
by Ned Hayes Olympia has professional theater, amateur theater, family theater and community theater. Yet we are often bereft of truly experimental genre-busting theatrical adventures. […]
Man of La Mancha: A Classic Tale Reinterpreted
THEATER REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Director Aaron Lamb and the cast and crew of Harlequin Productions’ Man of La Mancha took a […]
Olympia’s Summer of Shakespeare In Three Acts
By Christian Carvajal William Shakespeare will be celebrated this summer in a unique trifecta of his work on stage. Three theater companies have joined to […]
Summer Shakespeare: As You Like It
THEATER REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Outdoor performances of Shakespeare continue through the Summer in Olympia with Goldfinch Productions’ As You Like It, […]
Summer Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Theatre Review by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS The Merry Wives of Windsor is arguably Shakespeare’s funniest comedy. It is also one of the bard’s […]
This Glorious Quest: Harlequin’s Man of La Mancha Inspires Audiences
By CHRISTIAN CARVAJAL Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s two-part novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, first published in 1605 and 1615 — concurrent […]