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Tacoma Little Theatre's 'Joy Luck Club' is a beautiful production of a...

TLT's production is more than just a play; it is an historic event for Tacoma. It was adapted from the Amy Tan book by David Hsieh, founding artistic director for ReAct Theatre in Seattle, where it...

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Tickets going fast for well-cast musical 'Legally Blonde'

“Legally Blonde,” the musical now playing at Tacoma Musical Playhouse, is a high-energy song-and-dance fest replete with silly jokes from sorority girls and scheming law students. Based on the film...

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Lakewood Playhouse's 'The Rainmaker' touching, funny, uplifting

The language, mood and family dynamics of “The Rainmaker” by N. Richard Nash, currently playing at Lakewood Playhouse, is reminiscent of “Grapes of Wrath” and Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie,”...

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Lakewood Playhouse produces charming version of Wilde's 'Importance of Being...

Oscar Wilde’s comic skewering of the British aristocracy, “The Importance of Being Earnest” has not lost a whit of its charm in 118 years. Wilde’s wit and sarcasm is ageless, and Lakewood Playhouse’s...

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Harlequin's 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is stunning in its dark beauty

Harlequin Production's Olympia staging of the 1971 rock opera is unlike any other, set in modern times flavored with the Occupy Movement, and based on the show's newly mounted arena tour in England...

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Hilarious antics keep laughs coming during Lakewood Playhouse production

“Play It Again, Sam” at Lakewood Playhouse is in many respects a typical Woody Allen tale, full of urban angst and featuring a frustrated and bumbling Woody Allen avatar. It’s…Click to Continue »

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TMP has fun with ‘Technicolor Dreamcoat’

The 10th anniversary revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Tacoma Musical Playhouse boasts some fun twists on the original.Click to Continue »

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‘Sylvia’ unleashes her inner canine

Tacoma Little Theatre opens its 2012-13 season with the very adult comedy “Sylvia” by A.R. Gurney, directed by Elliot Weiner.Click to Continue »

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Toes will tap for all that jazz

Tacoma Musical Playhouse’s production “Chicago” is a thoroughly enjoyable, funny and jazzy musical that hits nothing but high notes despite being all about a couple of murderous women and their…Click...

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Window into terror

The final three performances of Lucille Fletcher’s “Night Watch” at Tacoma Little Theatre are tonight, Saturday and Sunday. This taut and suspenseful play is an edge-of-the-seat fright in the...

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