Emma by Michael Bloom Directed by Angela Bayler October 6 – 29, 2023 Emma Woodhouse, the self-titled “matchmaker of Highbury,” is completely uninterested in marriage for herself…but has big plans for everyone else. Flying high from her most recent match, she takes on her latest project: an orphan named Harriet Smith, who quickly discovers that …
A new play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe De Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of …
Get ready to laugh harder than you’ve laughed before! Welcome to opening night of the Cornley Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, …
Poor Rapunzel – she’s trapped in the witch’s magical tower with nothing to do all day but read books and care for her long, flowing hair. Can a charming prince and his brave horse help her escape to explore the outside world? What will happen when the witch finds out? This classic fairy tale full …
Centerstage Theatre’s 2022-23 season comes to a close with Moliere’s satirical comedy Tartuffe. This classic charlatans its way onto stage from May 19 – June 11, 2023. Tartuffe skillfully masters whatever persona he feels those around him want most while gaining access to whoever, and whatever, he pleases. As people start seeing behind his mask, …
Juice Box Theatre brings this classic children’s story to life as the three little pigs set out into the world, build houses, and try to outwit the big bad wolf. This short play is perfect for 3-5 year-old kiddos and caregivers! Shows at 10:30 am April 15, 17 & 20th. $5 per person. Children under …
ONE NIGHT ONLY – Halloween at Harlequin Celebrated local author Jim Lynch (The Highest Side, Border Songs) shares a new (scary!) short story, followed by Edgar Allan Poe – The Poet’s Journey, adapted by local playwright Bryan Willis and starring Bradford Farwell (Indecent, Seattle Rep), who brings Mr. Poe’s life, obsessions and genius to Harlequin. Directed by Megan …
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.