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 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 [...]
When we showed up for our weekly production meeting Wednesday night, we were greeted with this lovely sight on the Broadway Center’s marquee. Our play, with the blinky lights and everything!
Originally, this post was going to be all about contrasts- the glamour of the marquee set against the ordinary work of getting a play to [...]
It’s that time- time to work. Actors are busy rehearsing, costumers and props people are busy crafting and collecting, and we are busy building. Most of us have “day jobs,” so this happens nights and weekends. We are very fortunate to have the use of the Puget Sound Builders cabinet shop for our set [...]
Every member of the production team works hard, but I sometimes think the costumer’s job is one of the most challenging. Beginning with a knowledge of historical styles and a knack for restyling thrift store finds, all the way through borrowing from other costume stock, building a costume from scratch, and dealing with “stage blood” [...]
Here is a look at our revised set for The Final Toast. No fancy painted set models this time, but we couldn’t resist at least giving you a peek. You will find this set to be a bit more “traditional,” with Holmes’ room on the left and his brother Mycroft’s club on the right. A [...]