Theatre Northwest

Want to see what we’ve been up to? Here is a little visit to our scene shop, whose space is generously provided by Puget Sound Builders, NW in Kent.
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This weekend at our production meeting, set designer Jason Phillips brought the set model. This event always generates excitement for the actors as well as the production staff. While many of get some kind of a sense of what is happening with set on stage by looking at the ground plans and seeing the lines [...]

We are so proud of our cast and crew for this production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The production was excellent, and while all cast members did an outstanding job, I would like to put in an extra thank-you for Connie Murray’s riveting portrayal of Blanche. As charge artist, my job during tech rehearsal is [...]

One of the biggest challenges on this set was getting the roof sections up. Lucky for us we had extra help that day. The roof sections had to be connected together, moved as one unit onto the set, connected to lines, and then lifted into the air before being placed in its proper position on [...]

In Which We Reveal Secrets of a Large Library
Those of you who were fortunate to see our production of Educating Rita couldn’t avoid noticing the great number of books on stage. While plenty of these books were real, many were not. They were specially-made panels of prop books. Book panels are lighter and easier to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]