Olympia Family Theater Responds to Financial Challenges 

Olympia Family Theatre, which has closed its adjacent all-ages space and reduced staff hours, is hard at work on raising the money it needs to keep the theater on solid footing going forward. Dean Shellman, chair of the non-profit theater’s board, said, “We’re carefully looking for savings opportunities that don’t change the experience for our audiences and students. OFT provides magical moments for families, and that won’t change.”

Surveillance: aerial dance + video art theater

Surveillance is a live 90-minute multimedia video and aerial dance show. Through creative use of screens, projections, and aerial apparatuses, the show explores how technology mediates how we see ourselves and others. WHERE Airbound Arts, 312 Columbia St. NW Olympia, WA 98502 WHEN Friday 1/10 – doors 6pm, show 6:30pm Saturday 1/11 – doors 6pm, …

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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Lakewood Playhouse

In this rendition of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Lakewood Playhouse there’s an added meta structure where the actors we see on stage are playing actors in the ‘40s, who are then playing the characters we know from It’s a Wonderful Life. “You’re an audience within an audience in the play within a play, which I think some people will be surprised by,” says director Brittany D. Henderson.

A Christmas Carol from Harlequin Productions Takes Center Stage This Holiday Season

“A Christmas Carol,” playing at Harlequin Productions Nov. 29 to Dec. 24, “is the greatest redemption story ever told, wrapped up in the trappings of a ghost story,” said Artistic Director Aaron Lamb. “A story of redemption is fundamentally a story about hope and forgiveness. If audiences leave a little more hopeful and a little more open to forgiveness after they see this production, we have succeeded.”

Nightmayor’s “The Oculist” at Wild Child

‘The Oculist’ by the two-person punk band nightmayor (Percy Boyle and Stella R.S.) is an irreverent retelling of the true story of John Taylor, an itinerant eye surgeon who traveled through Europe in the 18th century. See it at Olympia’s Wild Child November 14 through 24.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at Tacoma Little Theatre

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Directed by Suzy Willhoft January 24 – February 9, 2025 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm Sundays at 2:00pm Pay What You Can: Thursday, February 6th at 7:30pm ASL Interpreted Performance: Sunday, February 9th at 2:00pm $29 Adults – $27 Students/Seniors/Military – $22 Children 12 & Under …

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LORCA IN A GREEN DRESS at Tacoma Little Theatre

LORCA IN A GREEN DRESS Directed by Maria-Tania Bandes B. Weingarden March 7 – March 23, 2025 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm Sundays at 2:00pm Pay What You Can: Thursday, March 20th at 7:30pm ASL Interpreted Performance: Sunday, March 23rd at 2:00pm $29 Adults – $27 Students/Seniors/Military – $22 Children 12 & Under TLT and …

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BUG at Tacoma Little Theatre

BUG Directed by Blake R. York April 25 – May 11, 2025 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm Sundays at 2:00pm Pay What You Can: Thursday, May 8th at 7:30pm ASL Interpreted Performance: Sunday, May 11th at 2:00pm $29 Adults – $27 Students/Seniors/Military – $22 Children 12 & Under The line between reality and delusion blurs …

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ROCKY at Tacoma Little Theatre

ROCKY Directed by Chris Serface Assistant Directed and Choreographed by Ashley Roy June 6 – June 29, 2025 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm Sundays at 2:00pm Pay What You Can: Thursday, June 19th at 7:30pm ASL Interpreted Performance: Sunday, June 29th at 2:00pm $31 Adults – $29 Students/Seniors/Military – $24 Children 12 & Under The …

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Phantom of the Paradise Restaged

The operatic scale of “The Phantom of the Paradise,” with that awful scarred hero-villain, his teeth metal and his eyes mad, screaming into the night as he watches the seduction of the woman he loved … if all of this is getting your midnight cult classics motor revving, there might not ever be a better time to see it than on November 8th at the Capitol Theatre, where for its 50th anniversary it will be accompanied with a live band and an actor-adjacent performance on the stage.

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