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AYA HASHIGUCHI CLARK

Aya Hashiguchi Clark joined the TLT board in 2019. She is a former occupational therapist who worked with special education students in the public schools. After retiring from her chosen profession, she and her husband Randy Clark founded Dukesbay Productions, an independent, multiracial theatre company in Tacoma. The Clarks also built The Dukesbay Theater, an intimate 40-seat venue that has become the home for several independent theatre companies.

Aya is a producer, actor and playwright. She is also an advocate for keeping live theatre in Tacoma vital and accessible for all, inclusive of ethnicity, disability and gender expression.

THE PILLOWMAN - FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2019 AT 7:30PM
All Tickets: $10.00

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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.

MATILDA

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.

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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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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

Program

Reviews

Dresdner’s Theatre Reviews
Drama in the Hood
The Suburban Times-Doman
The Suburban Times-Geyer
The Tacoma Weekly
The Weekly Volcano

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

Reviews

Dresdner’s Theatre Reviews
Drama in the Hood
The Weekly Volcano
The Tacoma Weekly
The Suburban Times