No, I haven’t forgotten you out there, and I hope you haven’t forgotten us. Until this morning, we were still having serious technical problems getting any photos back on this blog. Something was wrong somewhere. The trick is finding it in the mess of code that makes what you see here look pretty. Fortunately Joe [...]
It has been an interesting couple of weeks here. Educating Rita opened last Friday, May 15th. For three weeks prior to opening, we at Theatre Northwest worked long hours, getting this production ready. Things were hectic, but going well. I had been taking photos and downloading them, trying to find time to do several blog [...]
What seems like a little blogging break was not really a vacation for me. Here at Theatre Northwest we all have day jobs, and I have been busy with mine. It is that time, however, for thoughts to turn to our next production, Educating Rita. We open May 15, and we are already hard at [...]
Ever wonder what happens after that final bow on the last night? Dismantlement, that’s what. Dismantlement- from the Latin dis- (removal) + mantel (mantle). I challenge anyone to find a better one-word description. Even before the final bows were taken on stage, crew was tiptoeing ever so quietly backstage, removing curtains from the Diogenes Club [...]
This week Theatre Northwest held auditions for Educating Rita, our next production. The play has two actors: Frank, a disillusioned English tutor in his 50’s, and Rita, a 30-ish hairdresser, hungry for education. The part of Frank was offered to our resident actor Steve Manning, but the part of Rita was up for grabs. So [...]
Whew. Opening night was last night and I can now take a deep breath and do something frivolous like gazing dreamily into the middle distance. Last week all deep breaths were followed by grabbing something (keys, paintbrush, ladder) and dashing somewhere.
This morning is my chance to do some public thank-yous. First of all, the [...]
If you are a mystery fan, you may have heard of our playwright, Stuart M. Kaminsky. Kaminsky writes several popular mystery series including those featuring Lew Fonesca, Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters and Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov. He has written sixty-three published novels, eight produced screenplays, episodes for television series, five biographies, more than [...]
It’s time for auditions for our next production, Educating Rita directed by Charlotte Tiencken.
Auditions will be held on Sunday, February 22, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Theatre on the Square Rehearsal Studio
Callbacks will be Tuesday, February 24, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM onstage at Theatre on the Square
Auditions will be for [...]
It has been a very long week. We are tired, we ache, we have sawdust in our socks and paint under our fingernails. Laundry and mail pile up at home and it’s been so long since we have seen the insides of our own refrigerators we wonder if we should knock before we open [...]
…well, sort of. If you didn’t see the very nice write-up we got from Rosemary Ponnekanti in Tacoma’s News Tribune on today, you can read it here.
Those of us building and painting the set put in a twelve hour day today. It will be like that for the next few days as we get ready [...]