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Bryan Willis’s Special Valentine’s Love Note at Harlequin

‘How Much the Heart Can Hold’ (Saturday, Feb. 14 only) is a multi-faceted celebration of love featuring scenes, poetry, quotes and even love notes penned by audience members. “It’s such a fun piece,” said Bryan Willis, who created the show with the late Linda Kalkwarf and included pieces by other local writers. “This is not a play I could have written 30 years ago. The nature of love changes as we age. We have successes and failures. … In the course of the play, we follow this couple who meet as grade-school students, and we follow them until they are in their golden years.”

Heaven’s Kitchen

Heaven’s Kitchen is set in New Orleans, where the angels are competing to make the best po-boy. Will these fools please the head chef or will they make a mess too big to clean up? Come join us with our friends at Airbound Arts in Olympia, WA for a magical night of circus! Featuring an …

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Alice Considers Mars

TAO (Theater Artists Olympia) will present Anna Considers Mars by Ruben Grijalva at their new space TBA from April 16th to May 3rd. Times TBD. Check back for more details.

And Then There Were None

Directed by Niclas Olson Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. None of them know each other, all of them have a dangerous past they need to keep secret, and each of them are now in the carefully laid trap of a murderer. As a storm rages outside, the group becomes completely cut off …

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The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera A Play with Music Based on John Gay’s THE BEGGAR’S OPERA By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann English translation of the dialogue by Robert MacDonald English translation of the lyrics by Jeremy Sams January 29th, 7:00pm January 30th, 7:00pm January 31st, 2:00pm & 7:00pm Performed and produced …

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

“…somebody/anybody, sing a black girl’s song, bring her out to know herself to know you…” By Ntozake Shange Directed by Michelle Matlock Join the circle as seven women share their stories and find strength in each other’s truth, passion and humor. This fusion of poetry, dance, music and song explodes off the stage and touches …

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Center Salon VII

Music!  Art!  Acting! More Music!  It’s our annual celebration of local artists with Kathy Gore Fuss (painting), Jill Barnes (song & emcee), John Serembe (monologue written by Bryan Willis), Holly Reeves (cello), Christian Carvajal (travel writing), Kathleen Byrd (Olympia’s new Poet Laureate), Jami Heinricher (Design – Sherwood Press), and Jennifer Hermann (Piano).  It’s a fast, …

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Debbie Sampson and Jeremy Holien in Falling

REVIEW: Falling at Olympia Little Theatre

Falling, now playing at Olympia Little Theatre (OLT), is 70 minutes of edge-of-your-seat intensity, a roller coaster of love, fear and laughter with no intermission. If there were an intermission, the audience’s total immersion into the Martin family would be weakened; if it were any longer than 70 minutes, the actors would be physically exhausted and the audience emotionally so. As it is, the time flies by at warp speed and the audience is left depleted, yet thoroughly satisfied.

Oliver Garcia and Luz Langguth-Torrez in Fully Vaxxed

REVIEW: Fully Vaxxed at Olympia Family Theater

Fully Vaxxed at Olympia Family Theater is one of the funniest, most distinctive and important theatrical events out there. It’s a campaign that will continue and move to other towns after its run at OFT. It’s a plea and a lesson on the importance of vaccinations in the time of COVID-19. It’s a performance of three bilingual, one-act plays running two weekends at OFT, then touring the state.

The Paper Moon, July 2020

UPDATED: Big Things Are Coming to Olympia Family Theater

The arrival of artistic director Lily Raabe to Olympia Family Theater (OFT) means big things for the family entertainment company in spring of 2022. Two mainstage shows open days apart, followed by the long-awaited debut of a musical mystery by Oly playwright Ted Ryle.

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