August 16th-August 18th
A Summer Camp @ TLT Production
TLT HEADING TO NATIONAL FESTIVAL
Two special benefit performances will be held on May 25 & May 26!
Read MoreTHE PILLOWMAN - FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2019 AT 7:30PM
All Tickets: $10.00
Tacoma Little Theatre is honored to be representing the Puget Sound at the Washington State Community Theatre Association (WSCTA) Kaleidoscope festival with their performance of last season’s, The Pillowman, written by Martin McDonagh, and directed by Blake R. York.
Martin McDonagh echoes the works of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm in this New York Drama Critics' Circle and Olivier Award winning script. The Pillowman is a viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of Katurian, a fiction writer in an unnamed totalitarian state. Katurian and his brother Michael are brought in for questioning by two bulldog detectives, Tupolski and Ariel, when the content of his short stories - which involve disturbingly gruesome tales - begin to resemble real-life murders. The Pillowman weaves between reality and storytelling; and the result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art.
Tacoma Little Theatre’s festival production of The Pillowman features: Jacob Tice (Katurian), Andrew Fry (Tupolski), Christian Carvajal (Ariel), and Sean Neely (Michal).
The Pillowman will present one special public performance prior to the festival, on Sunday, February 24th at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $10.00 per seat for these special performances and they will be held at Tacoma Little Theatre. Tickets may be purchased by clicking here, or by calling our Box Office at (253) 272-2281.
About Tacoma Little Theatre: Tacoma Little Theatre’s mission is to enrich our community by creating quality live theatre experiences. Tacoma Little Theatre (TLT) employs professional standards of excellence, utilizing the performing arts as a means of building community. Founded in 1918 as the Tacoma Little Theatre and Drama League, TLT is among the oldest community theaters in existence in the United States.
About the WSCTA:The WSCTA Kaleidoscope Festival is a biennial event that brings theatres from all over Washington to participate in a competition with strict guidelines.If selected, shows will move to a regional festival (Washington, Alaska, Oregon & Idaho), with the final goal to make it to the American Association of Community Theatre Festival in Gettysburg, PA, which celebrates theatre across the country.Kaleidoscope 2019 will be held at The Princess Theatre in Prosser, Washington, February 28-March 2, 2019.
Jenny Hubbard
ADULT AUDITION WORKSHOP
For anyone over 18 years old.
Read MoreADULT IMPROV WORKSHOP
Improv for anyone over 18!
Read MoreMATILDA
AUBURN COMMUNITY PLAYERS
March 6-March 22, 2020
Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave.
Pre-Sale Regular: $17
Pre-Sale Student/Senior: $14
Door Sale Regular: $22
Door Sale Student/Senior: $19
Matilda’s courage and cleverness save the day, her friends, and their school! Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence, and psychokinetic powers. She is unloved by her cruel parents, but impresses her schoolteacher, the loveable Miss Honey. As Miss Honey begins to recognize and appreciate Matilda's extraordinary personality, they must contend with the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. The headmistress hates children and loves thinking up new punishments for those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could just be the school pupils' saving grace! Please note, tickets sold a the door are $22 Regular; $19 student/senior.
100TH SEASON OPENING GALA AND SILENT AUCTION
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
6:00PM-9:00PM
Tacoma Little Theatre is excited to welcome the community to join us at our special Gala and Silent Auction celebrating our 100th Season. This special fundraising event will be filled with fine drinks, fine hors d’oeuvres, and fine entertainment. It is a momentous year as TLT turns 100-years-old and we can’t wait to share it with you.
The evening will begin with a social hour and then move into the auditorium where staff and board members will present a sneak peek of each of the seven shows in our 100th season which include: The Foreigner, Bell, Book and Candle, Scrooge! The Musical, A Doll’s House, A Little Night Music, Laura, and Hay Fever. Throughout the course of the evening attendees will be bidding on silent auction items and enjoying musical entertainment from local performers.
Tacoma Little Theatre’s 100th Season Opening Gala and Silent Auction will take place on Saturday, September 8, 2018 from 6:00pm-9:00pm.
Tickets are $35.00 per person (includes hors d’oeuvres and one drink) and may be purchased by clicking here, or by calling our Box Office at (253) 272-2281.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS - An Off the Shelf reading
Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:30pm
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Tacoma Little Theatre's Off the Shelf program is excited to present Lauren Gunderson’s, The Revolutionists, directed by Jennifer York and featuring a powerhouse of Tacoma actors. This production will play Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:30pm.
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
The Revolutionists features the talents of: Angela Parisotto as Olympe de Gouges, Kristen Natalia as Marianne Angelle, Cassie Jo Fastabend as Charlotte Corday, and Deya Ozburn as Marie Antoinette.
Tickets for the March 14, 2019 performance at 7:30pm are $10.00 for non TLT Members, and FREE for those who are members. Tickets may be purchased online by clicking here, or by calling our Box Office at (253) 272-2281.
TLT's OFF THE SHELF
We know that there is a tremendous amount of wonderful theatre that deserves to be heard but sometimes just doesn’t get an opportunity. With “Off the Shelf”, local directors and actors will be bringing some scripts to life that we hope you will find entertaining, challenging and educational to our stage. We hope that you’ll sit back and enjoy an evening of theatre. You never know, you might see one of these shows on our mainstage in the future.
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MULAN JR
July 20th-July 22nd
A Summer Camp @ TLT Production
HAIRSPRAY JR
August 17th-August 19th
A Summer Camp @ TLT Production
The Foreigner
Directed by Casi Pruitt
September 14th - September 30th, 2018
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, September 27th at 7:30pm
$25 Adults - $23 Students/Seniors/Military - $20 Children 12 & Under
A rousing comedy first presented in 2002!
At a rural fishing Lodge, Froggy, a British demolition expert, has brought along a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. He tells everyone that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should — the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. All of that sets up the wildly funny ending.
Recommended for Ages 12+
Featuring:
Mikel Michener as S/Sgt. "Froggy" LeSueur
Blake R. York as Charlie Baker
Jen Aylsworth as Betty Meeks
Cody Wyld Flower as Rev. David Marshall Lee
Caiti Burke as Catherine Simms
Brian Cox as Owen Musser
Charlie Stevens as Ellard Simms
Bell, Book and Candle
Directed by Brett Carr
October 26th - November 11th, 2018
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, November 8th at 7:30pm
$25 Adults - $23 Students/Seniors/Military - $20 Children 12 & Under
Halloween is the perfect time for this bewitching love story first presented in 1960!
Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly because she is attracted to him. He falls head over heels in love with her at once and wants to marry her. But witches, unfortunately, cannot fall in love, and this minute imperfection leads into a number of difficulties before they find out if they can live happily ever after.
Recommended for Ages 8+
Featuring:
Victoria Ashley as Gillian
Jed Slaughter as Shepherd
Max Christofferson as Nicky
Wendy Cohen as Queenie
Mike Storslee as Redlitch
Program
Scrooge! The Musical
Directed by Micheal O'Hara
Musically Directed by Zachary Kellogg
Choreographed by Eric Clausell
December 7th - December 30th, 2018
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
SPECIAL ADDED PERFORMANCES:
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 2:00pm
Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 2:00pm
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 7:30pm
Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 7:30pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, December 20th at 7:30pm
$27 Adults - $25 Students/Seniors/Military - $22 Children 12 & Under
Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future return! First presented in 1980.
One of our favorite gifts to the community is this timeless Dickens’ classic. This musical, with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, is adapted from the 1970 musical film Scrooge which starred Albert Finney and Sir Alec Guinness. The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of a Christmas Eve night, after being visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Recommended for All Ages
Featuring:
Kenya Adams as Mrs. Cratchit
Susan Cates as Mrs. Fezziwig
Andrew Fry as Scrooge
Kathy Kluska as The Ghost of Christmas Past
Jeremy Lynch as Bob Cratchit
George McClure as Mr. Fezziwig
Evie Merrill as Tiny Tim
Chris Serface as The Ghost of Christmas Present
Allie Watkins as Isabel
Joseph Woodland as Jacob Marley
with Eva Hay, Emily Newland, Kaden Stanford, and Olivia Zamira as The Cratchit Children
and George Blanchard, Caleb Corpeno, Maddi Deck, Jordan Duncan, Nigel Kelley, Erinne Kellogg, Laura Knight, Elias Jensen, Liam Loughridge, Olivia Montgomery, Tamara Nelson, Tristin Nelson, Alan Plaster, and Thea Ramirez as Ensemble
A Doll's House
Directed by Marilyn Bennett
January 25 - February 10, 2019
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, February 7th at 7:30pm
$25 Adults - $23 Students/Seniors/Military - $20 Children 12 & Under
In 1935 TLT presented this classic which still resonates today.
A story so controversial in its time that party guests were asked not to discuss it for fear of starting a fight, lauded by playwright George Bernard Shaw for challenging societal norms, Henrik Ibsen’s play features Nora Helmer: a woman in the role of a typical housewife, treated like a doll, harboring a secret debt for saving her husband’s life. Her debtor, now an employee to her husband, threatens to reveal her secret to her husband in order to save his own job. Nora finds herself faced with a difficult moral dilemma between the sacred values of her marriage and family versus her independence.
Recommended for Ages 12+
Featuring:
Annie Katica Green as Nora
Sean Neely as Helmer
Kristen Moriarty as Christine
Jason Sharp as Krogstad
Mark Peterson as Dr. Rank
Robin McGee as Anne Marie
Marleyne Hernandez as Helene
Patrick Gow as Ivar
Nigel Kelley as Bob
Jillian Littrell as Emmy
A Little Night Music
Directed by John Munn
Musically Directed by Debbie Armstrong
Choreographed by Lexi Barnett
March 8 - March 31, 2019
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, March 21st at 7:30pm
$27 Adults - $25 Students/Seniors/Military - $22 Children 12 & Under
One of Sondheim’s most famous scores comes back to the TLT for the first time since 1997!
Winner of four Tony Awards®, Stephen Sondheim’s glorious musical masterpiece returns to the TLT stage. In 1900 Sweden, on a magical night that smiles three times, an aging actress, a married virgin, a sex-starved divinity student, and a buffoonish count find themselves hilariously tangled in a web of love affairs. Delightful, charming and at times heartbreaking, with gorgeous, lush music, including “A Weekend in the Country,” “Liaisons” and the seminal “Send in the Clowns,” A Little Night Music is a coupling (and uncoupling) tour-de-force.
Recommended for Ages 12+
Featuring:
Jonathan Bill as Fredrik Egerman
Jamey Cheek as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm
Hayley Ewerz as Petra
Dominic Girolami as Frid
Julianna Guzman-Ferreira as Fredrika Armfeldt
Alyssa Hersey as Charlotte Malcolm
Rosalie Hilburn as Madame Armfeldt
Juliet Hollifield as Anne Egerman
Will Johnson as Henrik Egerman
Casi Pruitt as Desiree Armfeldt
Audrey Stowe as Malla
Grace Wilkerson as Osa
Erik Davis, Caryl Dowd, Kira Vega, Heidi Walworth-Horn & Chap Wolff as The Liebeslieder Singers
Laura
Directed by Randy Clark
April 26 - May 12, 2019
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, May 9th at 7:30pm
$25 Adults - $23 Students/Seniors/Military - $20 Children 12 & Under
A classic film noir story that will have you guessing until the very end. First shown in 1947.
When Mark McPherson first falls in love with Laura, he knows he's in love with a phantom—for Laura is dead, and he's in charge of her murder investigation. From her portrait, her letters, her personal effects and from his contacts with the three men who loved her, Mark has created an image of a woman tantalizingly alive and real. As the detective grows obsessed with the case, he finds himself falling in love with the dead woman. What really happened to Laura?
Recommended for Ages 12+
Featuring:
Rodman Bolek as Mark McPherson
Joel Thomas as Danny Dorgan
Ben Stahl as Waldo Lydecker
Randon Welch as Shelby Carpenter
Valeria Sanchez Jimenez as Bessie Clary
Robin McGee as Mrs. Dorgan
Victoria Hope Ashley as A Girl
Steve Tarry as Olsen
Hay Fever
Directed by Rick Hornor
June 7 - June 23, 2019
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Pay What You Can: Thursday, June 20th at 7:30pm
$25 Adults - $23 Students/Seniors/Military - $20 Children 12 & Under
Noel Coward’s zany comedy had audiences laughing in 1924 when it first took the TLT stage!
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream when their high-spirited children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own. A houseful of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare. With Judith's new flame and David's newest literary “inspiration” keeping company as the children follow suit, the Bliss family lives up to its name as the “quiet weekend” comes to an exhausting and hilarious finale worthy of Feydeau.
Recommended for Ages 12+
Featuring:
John W. Olive as David Bliss
Jane McKittrick as Judith Bliss
Rodman Bolek as Simon Bliss
Deya Ozburn as Sorel Bliss
Adrianna Littlejohn Roland as Clara
W. Scott Pinkston as Richard Greatham
Devan Malone as Myra Arundel
Frank Roberts as Sandy Tyrell
Jill Heinecke as Jackie Coryton
GRITTY CITY SIRENS PRESENT: WET
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
7:00PM & 10:00PM
TICKETS:
$25.00 VIP
(first two rows)
$20.00 General Admission (first come/first sat)
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
April showers, bring May flowers!
. . . or so they say!
Are you ready to get soaking “WET” with the Gritty City Sirens?!
Hold on to your seats and strap on your rain gear as the Sirens turn up the Bawdy Humor! Kink! & Salacious Seduction!
The Juices will BE flowing.
Featuring special guests:
Mr. Joel & The Luminous Pariah
VIP “Splash zone” $35
Premium seating in the first two rows and a goodie bag from our donation beneficiary ~ Dave Purchase Project, where “Safe is Sexy”
General admission $25
First come first serve
MUH GROG ZOO - Words 155 & 156
Thursday, July 25, 2019
7:00pm
$10 per human.
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Check out Muh Grog Zoo on facebook by clicking HERE
Summer brings the Zoo!
And we're thrilled to be back.
We'll be getting our 155th and 156th word this night.
These randomly chosen words (from 2 of our audience mouths) will provide MGZ the wherewithal to do (2) 40 minute Improvised One Act Plays.
A night that'll surely stay with you in all the best ways.
And yet again we are partnering with the wonderful Tacoma Little Theatre. Thanks, Tacoma Little Theatre, we like your house.
*For mature minded persons