“…somebody/anybody, sing a black girl’s song, bring her out to know herself to know you…” By Ntozake Shange 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 the hearts and minds …
SRO is back for a 3rd year with another Murder Mystery Dinner at Farrelli’s in Yelm. This time we visit the Old West for some Rootin’ Tootin’ good times in Murder at The Short Stump Saloon! After a long, dusty Stagecoach ride on the trail, Miss Katty welcomes you to The Short Stump Saloon where …
Trouble in Mind Written by Alice Childress Directed by Michelle Blackmon March 28 – April 20, 2025 Taking place entirely in a rehearsal space in an old New York theatre, Trouble in Mind brings us up close and personal with a group of artists working to open a new Broadway show. Themes of race, class, …
Theater Artists Olympia is remounting their cult-classic libidinous production of The HEAD!!! That Wouldn’t DIE!! A homegrown bit of toe tapping horror. HEAD!!! is inspired by the infamously bad B movie from 1964, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (famously lampooned by the MST3K guys, notorious for recognizing the truly awful), The TAO Collective has taken …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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.
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 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.