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South Sound residents can indulge in a musical treat next month that was kindled in the recital halls of South Korea.
They might not be the greatest plays ever written, but “The Greatest Plays Ever Written By Nick Stokes!” are certainly the best plays to be seen around Tacoma in the last few months. And produced as they are in the dim, haunted recesses of Old City Hall, they definitely take the prize for the most inventive venue. The two new one-hour plays, “The Sound We Make” and “Whiteout” by local playwright Nick Stokes, deal with tricky issues (homelessness and deathly reality) in clever ways with some strong acting.
There is something homey about community theater that invites audience members to feel like they have a stake in the performance.
For a good contemporary dance concert, there was an awful lot of bad nostalgia. The Barefoot Collective’s second annual “Footfalls” evening of original dance featured two well-thought-out works by Tacoma choreographers, Katie Stricker and Stephanie Kriege Pederson, danced wholeheartedly by the Collective’s dancers. Yet, bizarrely, the evening also included some mediocre cabaret singing completely at odds with the rest of the program.
What: Art Slam
You might call it moldy garbage. Or you might call it highly conceptual sculpture. You could see it as an echo of ancient ruins, or a fantastical play fort. Richard Tracy’s Art Yard in historic Centralia is all these things – the prolific 26-year outpouring of a mind that works very differently than most.
Moral philosophers promote the idea of developing a person’s character, the concept that you can teach people to be virtuous.
In a way, it sounds a little kinky. You’re in an orchestra, you make passionate music with your conductor. Then he steps aside, hands over the baton and off you go with someone completely different.
There are some very strange creatures in the Museum of Glass’ back gallery. Sporting vibrant fuschias, neon blues and lime greens they’re natives of another planet, one where cats wear pizzas and fish eat molten lava. They’re the 52 pieces of art in “Kids Design Glass,” an exhibition showcasing an ongoing education program at the museum. While they’re made by adults, they’re definitely designed by kids – and the planet they come from is that wild and colorful place called childhood.
When a tenor’s in love, he sings high notes. When he goes off to war, he sings high notes. And when he gets his girl, guess what he does? Yep, the raison d’etre of being an operatic tenor is to hit those high C’s and D’s whenever you can – at least in Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Daughter of the Regiment,” on stage this weekend at the Rialto. And Tacoma Opera, which is putting it on, has found itself a tenor who relishes the high-wire challenge.
Mariachi music, handmade tissue paper flowers, decorated sugar skulls, art and altars – the Tacoma Art Museum came alive Sunday for El Día de los Muertos.
Nothing quite says Washington state like:
I’ve seen “Nunsense” before but never like this. This performance is not only rolling-in-the-aisles funny and deliciously irreverent, it rocks.
What: Art Door Auction benefitting Tacoma Art Place
Three years ago, Harlequin Productions put on a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that was the most elaborate and outrageously funny Shakespeare comedy I had ever seen. I would not have believed they could match that performance, but they have with their current show, “As You Like It.”
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