Man of La Mancha” at Olympia’s Capital Playhouse is a big musical in every way – big sets and costumes, broad and boisterous singing and acting, dark makeup (including Don Quixote’s overdone theatrical makeup that is, purposefully, badly applied on stage), and larger-than-life passions. Read more...

You Can’t Take it with You,” the classic comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, is being performed by Paradise Theatre in Gig Harbor. It is a joyful play that evokes an endless stream of belly laughs as a huge cast of eccentric characters interact in a madcap manner with so many plots and subplots and sight gags that it would be hard to keep up were it not for director Jeff Richards’ skillful timing and blocking. Read more...

Conor McPherson’s “Shining City” is the latest poetic, Beckett-like modern drama from the playwright to be produced by Harlequin Productions. Harlequin has also brought us McPherson’s “The Weir” and “St. Nicholas.” Read more...

Miss Saigon Read more...

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Theater Artists Olympia, the “fringe” company that produces some of the more challenging theater in the Pacific Northwest, is bringing Philip Atlakson’s play “The Ascetic” to the Midnight Sun performance space beginning tonight. Read more...

The Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens musical “Once on This Island” at Lakewood Playhouse combines Caribbean folk tales with a love story reminiscent of “Romeo and Juliet” told through song and movement. Read more...

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Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Sisters Rosensweig” received uneven reviews when it premiered in 1993. Frank Rich of The New York Times called it “a generous group portrait,” and Jeremy Gerald of Variety called it “mean-spirited.” This seems to be typical of critical reaction to Wasserstein’s plays. According to BookRags literary criticism, critics have called her characters colorful and engaging but stereotypical and predictable. Read more...

Intimate Apparel Read more...

My One and Only Read more...

On the night I saw Alan Ayckbourn’s “How the Other Half Loves” at Lakewood Playhouse there were more empty seats than full. That’s a shame, because this play is laugh-out-loud funny. Read more...

Imagine a “Saturday Night Live” episode with a feminist theme and a lot of rockin’ music, and you’ll begin to gain a glimpse of what is in store for you when you see “6 Women With Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know” at Capital Playhouse in Olympia. Read more...

Moonlight and Magnolias Read more...

Theatergoers who have never experienced a Breeders Theater production at the E.B. Foote Winery in Burien should go at least once. It is quite an experience. Read more...

Urinetown Read more...

The Colored Museum Read more...

Nightmare of a Married Man Read more...

The Sound of Music Read more...