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As I watched Olympia Little Theatre's production of Educating Rita, a show it essentially ported over from Evergreen Playhouse in Centralia, I was reminded of both Oleanna and another play in love with English poetry, Margaret Edson's Wit. In this production, John Pratt (Premiere!) embodies Frank. Kaaren Spanski-Dreffin, one
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I get Frank Bryant in Willy Russell's 1980 two-hander Educating Rita; not that I've played the role, though I have costarred in a play with a similar setup, David Mamet's Oleanna (1993). In that show, a female student compensates for intellectual weaknesses by accusing her male professor of sexist behavior.
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The Pointe du Hoc Foundation, which was founded in 2011, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the families of the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, as well as to recognizing and commemorating Rangers and their families, from WII to the present. As part of that, the foundation's board
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We're only half way through February and already it's been quite a month for sports in the Puget Sound area - with the Seattle Seahawks pummeling the Broncos to win its first Super Bowl, and four elite Pacific Northwest athletes competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Tightwad publisher Pappi Swarner
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Rollerbladers thought they were so hot when they cruised onto the scene in the early '90s, with their flashy in-line wheels and sleek helmets. Quad-wheel roller skates were instantly obsolete - if you weren't sporting the in-lines, you weren't one of the cool kids. But, as we all know, fashion
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In case you've been rightly avoiding entertainment news over the past month, LaBeouf has been embroiled in a controversy that began with him completely plagiarizing a Daniel Clowes comic called Justin M. Damiano for a short film he directed. Predictably, LaBeouf was immediately found out once he put the film
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It took years of sitting home alone watching TV on Valentine's Day, tallying the reasons for our involuntary solitude - Is our hair too flat? Are our thighs too big? Is that smell coming from our couch or these pajamas? - before we realized the problem was not us. It