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Situation one: You’ve driven around the Seattle Center for an hour trying to park, paid through the nose, trekked a mile in the sun, missed your favorite Norwegian fiddle band and now you’ve been standing in a burger line for 20 minutes while your kids scream at you.
With admission prices up to $19, going to the new Chihuly Garden and Glass at the Seattle Center might be an expensive way to see art by the iconic Tacoma-born glass artist that you can see in Tacoma for free.
On Saturday night, Olympia will host a benefit dance with a big band and lots of swingin’ and singin’.
When you hear that Olympia Family Theater is doing a play based on “Goodnight Moon,” you might be forgiven for wondering how that’s possible.
It can be intimidating working with a world-famous playwright, as Harlequin Productions does each year with Israel Horovitz.
Taking it all off — as the characters and actors do in “The Full Monty,” opening this weekend at Capital Playhouse — isn’t easy, but it is exhilarating. That’s the word from Jerod Nace, who is directing the musical, adapted from the 1997 film about unemployed men who decide to earn money by stripping — and unlike the Chippendales, they’re willing to go all the way.
Ballet Northwests spring production is not the usual story ballet. Instead, the company is premiering three new works set to music that will be performed live by an ensemble of the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
The University of Washington Tacoma now has an original Picasso drawing hanging in its library, courtesy of Tacoma peace activist the Rev. Bill Bix Bichsel.
For Anne Swartz of Olympia, opening night of Arts Walk means spring has finally arrived in South Sound. “You see all the faces you haven’t seen all winter because people hibernate a little,” she said.