South Sound Arts etc. - Alec Clayton

  Like a collection of elegant and mysterious religious icons dug up from a newly discovered ancient civilization, Becky Knold’s mixed-media scrolls on display in the lobby of the State Theat...

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  Susan Christian’s Blue at LGM Studio By Alec Clayton Through popular use, the term abstract has come to mean what the term nonobjective once meant, that is paintings with no recogniza...

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  If you’ve read OLY ART S, you know that BOP and TAO have merged to bring Olympia top notch stage musicals, comedies and drama. You probably already know that BOP is Broadway Olympia Pro...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-one-act-play-that-goes-wrong-at-bop.html

  A Tacoma Little Theatre’s ‘Off The Shelf’ Production   Tacoma Little Theatre's Off the Shelf program presents Molly Smith Metzler’s exploration of motherhood, Cry It Out, dire...

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  from left: Charlie Kuvangasan and Chris Bolduc, photo by Sara Gettys from left: CGiselle Jensen and Jesse Morrow, photo by Sara Gettys Reviewed by Alec Clayton — yes, that’s th...

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  Centerstage opens the noir detective thriller Yellow Fever by Rick Shiomi Friday, May 20. This one is set right here in our beloved Pacific Northwest, and told through the lens of the Japane...

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by Alec Clayton From my Oly Arts article on Harlequin Production’s Sovereignty:  > Sovereignty is a historical drama about Native Americans written > and directed by Nativ...

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Reviewed by Alec Clayton In the early-to-mid 20th century, commercial art and comic art were considered something less than fine art. And then along came Andy Warhol with his soup cans and mul...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2022/03/sara-gettys-warmer-days-at-childhoods.html

  Reviewed by Alec Clayton Jim Winkler and Aya Hashiguchi James (Jim Winkler) is a gruff, profane and loveable Kentucky hillbilly, a recovering alcoholic obsessed with collecting and sell...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2022/03/god-said-this-at-dukesbay-productions.html

    The ever popular A Chorus Line was scheduled to open at Tacoma Little Theatre two years ago but got shut down by Covid. Finally it’s back, with direction and choreography by Eric ...

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Reviewed by Alec Clayton Anne Tracy as Lizzy, Jennie Jenks as Mrs. Reynolds and Erin Cariker as Lydia; photos courtesy Olympia Little Theatre The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2021/12/olympia-little-theatre-fractures-season.html

review by Alec Clayton Derek Mesford as Flap and Ana Bury-Quinn as Emma, photo by Dennis K Photography Run, drive, crawl to Tacoma Little Theatre to see Terms of Endearment—unless you�...

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  BOOKS BY ALEC CLAYTON    People have asked "What are your books about?" These are my books, so far, in capsule and in order of publication. As of this writing there are three more novel...

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  by Alec Clayton The first thing I thought about when I woke up this morning was that in 1955 when I was in the ninth grade at Beeson Junior High my twin brother and a friend and I were sus...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2021/01/peps-point-and-hi-hat-club.html

  A friend posted on Facebook, “What is something you've done that you're pretty confident you're the only person on my friends list to have ever done?” The responses flooded in with many ...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2020/11/memorable-moments.html

  Cast of Assisted Living from left: Lissa Valentine, Frank Kohel, Sharry O'Hare, Micheal O'Hara Assisted Living: The Musical is a comedic romp through an assisted living home where, as di...

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  Reviewed by Alec Clayton TimTakechi LaNita Hudson Walters, Sharon Armstrong Andrea Benson Theatre Magic (And Other Things We Need) at Centerstage is a group of eight one-acts ...

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 AUDITIONS: PAGE TO SCREEN READINGS NOVEMBER 8TH & NOVEMBER 9TH Tacoma, WA- Tacoma Little Theatre is holding auditions for two Page to Screen virtual readings, Buenas Noches Mamá, by Emil...

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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma and David Mielke Courtesy Photo Not even a worldwide pandemic can stop theater people from doing their thing, as demonstrated by such events as Harlequin Productio...

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Tacoma Little Theatre's Page to Screen program presents an exciting virtual drama: James A. Gilletti’s, The Final Assignment, directed by pug Bujeaud, stage managed by Nena Curley and featur...

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  Along with other live events across the nation, Harlequin Productions’ 2020 Season was halted in March 2020. To complete this year’s season, the theater announces a six-week online radio...

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It all started when I was in high school—Hattiesburg High School, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1960. Everyone was encouraged to join some kind of school club or activity, 4-H, Junior Kiwanis, ...

http://alecclayton.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-i-faked-my-way-into-becoming.html

Not to be defeated by the coronavirus pandemic, Tacoma Musical Playhouse is doing a virtual performance of American Way by Jeremy Gable, one night only, Friday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. Faced with...

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SHARON STYER AND GAIL RAMSEY WHARTON By Alec Clayton I recently wrote about collage artists Sharon Styer and Gail Ramsey Wharton for Oly Arts (see CreativeMinds: The Collage Art of Sharon ...

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A coronavirus sampler By Alec Clayton Veiled Distance Art galleries and theaters being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, I am forced by boredom to review works in my own collection...

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