If you’re lucky, co-workers can turn into true friends. These are the people you work alongside day in and day out, celebrating the highs and commiserating over the lows that life throws your way.
Playwright Cynda Weitz didn’t always have plans to write a play inspired by the adventures of Winnie the Pooh and his friends, but that changed in 2022.
Dancers can, of course, dance without choreography, allowing the music or their own intuition to guide their moves. And choreographers can, of course, choreograph without a group of dancers, planning elaborate routines in their heads.
With two police officer parents and an adolescent in athletics, performer Jaylon C. Crump was reluctant to tell their parents they were interested in auditioning for “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” as a high school freshman.
Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen first met more than 20 years ago when Jensen wrote theater reviews for Spokane’s short-lived, now-defunct progressive newspaper, “The Local Planet.” But the pair truly bonded years later, in 2015, when Nickerson directed Jensen in the controversial play “Equus” at Stage Left Theater.
Just like seeing “A Christmas Carol” is a holiday tradition for many, producing the Charles Dickens novella in some form has become a holiday tradition for Spokane Civic Theatre.
Jenny Shotwell first joined forces with Ellen Travolta in 2021 as a pianist. Now, it's an all-Shotwell family affair for "The Sound of Christmas" at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, with Travolta as producer. Shotwell has extensive musical experience, but her costars have stage merits, including husband Dalton and children Clark, 9 and Skye, 6. They'll do nostalgic songs and touch on Coeur d'Alene's holiday history.
