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    South Sound theater community rises to 24-hour Doubleshot challenge

    posted 06:08 PM 04/12

    Olympia’s first Doubleshot Festival, a benefit for the Northwest Playwrights Association and Capital Playhouse, challenges local and regional writers and actors to create theater from scratch and present it to an audience 23½ hours later. The 7 short plays will premiere Saturday night, and be performed again Sunday.

    OLT's 'Premiere' aptly chosen for debut of new space

    posted 11:34 AM 04/12

    The 2008 Dale Wasserman play about a Neil Simon-esque playwright who yearns to be taken seriously will break in the Olympia Little Theater’s new lighting and heating systems, and serve as a premiere for its 19-year-old director, Julia VanDerslice.

    Olympia Little Theatre to celebrate renovations with Saturday gala

    posted 05:20 PM 04/07

    Olympia Little Theatre is back in show business after four months of renovations and updates. The theater is hosting a party Saturday to celebrate the changes, which include a new heating and air-conditioning system, a new lighting system and a higher ceiling to make room for all of that, as well as for taller sets.

    Theater Artists Olympia gives Tarantino a gender-bending treatment

    posted 02:24 PM 04/04

    Starting this weekend at the Midnight Sun, two TAO casts -- one male, one female -- offer different theatrical takes on Quentin Tarantino's first film, 1992's "Reservoir Dogs."

    Trailblazing photographer Jodi Cobb to speak in Olympia

    posted 03:07 PM 03/28

    National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb has made a career documenting the secret worlds of women, including the lives of women in Saudi Arabia and the geisha in Japan. More recently, she’s photographed modern slaves around the world. “Every story is a journey of learning,” said Cobb, who’ll speak Friday night in Olympia as part of the National Geographic Live series.

    Actors get silly in Olympia Family Theater's 'Robin Hood'

    posted 06:46 AM 03/29

    The familiar tale of Robin Hood gets a Monty Python-esque treatment in the latest OFT production led by Tom Sanders -- which means it will be as amusing to adults as it is to children. And the audience gets some opportunities to participate as well.

    Winging it along the Snake River

    posted 03:08 AM 03/24

    BOISE, Idaho – Pelicans splash in a shallow eddy in the Snake River near Three Island Crossing State Park in Idaho and take you by surprise because of their large size.

    First Olympia Acoustic Festival brings many genres under its umbrella

    posted 03:14 AM 03/24

    The first Olympia Acoustic Festival this weekend will celebrate music, camaraderie, collaboration – and rain.

    Ron Stubbs suggests you act a little silly this weekend

    posted 02:16 PM 03/21

    'Rock and Roll Hypnotist' will use his skills to persuade audience members to take off their shirts, spank each other and more on Saturday at The Royal Lounge in Olympia.

    The best State Parks has to offer

    posted 01:18 AM 03/17

    It’s Virginia Painter’s business to know Washington’s state parks inside and out, but that doesn’t make a goal she completed about six years ago any less impressive.


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