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UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2022

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Never before has the ability to connect and experience live performing arts been impactful, so meaningful, or important. Tacoma Arts Live is thrilled to return to presenting live in-person events. We are committed to safely hosting these gatherings. We are passionate about our role to create an anti-racist, inclusive society. We are in this together with you. We are LIVE.

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Your safety is important. All venues require staff, artists, volunteers, and attendees ages 12 and above to provide proof of either a full COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 PCR test result within 72 hours of the event. All guests are required to wear a mask while inside for the duration of the show.

All guests will be required to show government-issued ID in addition to one of the following for entry: • Your vaccine card • A clear and legible photocopy of your vaccine card • Photo of your vaccine card on your phone • A digital vaccine passport or record • A negative COVID-19 PCR test result obtained within 72 hours of the event

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Donate, Become a Member, or Volunteer Play your part. Support Tacoma Arts Live.

Energizing Community Through Live Performance

Energizing the Community Through Live Performance

Education programs serving 50,000+ youth, adult, and senior learners annually

Tacoma’s largest resident arts organization

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Strengthening the Social Fabric of our Region, Together

Tacoma Arts Live believes passionately that our work is about building, celebrating our diverse society, and sharing joy. Your support—as a donor, volunteer, or friend—powers us.

Together, we bring live events that reflect the pulse of the city, radiate vital transformative energy, and fuels the momentum of social change.

Join Us Today to: • Ensure the South Sound is a place where unifying arts energies are accessible and available to all.

• Invest in our youth through arts education programs that help students express their creativity, manage complex emotions, collaborate, and strengthen academics.

• Amplify our community’s strengths by fostering a deeply connected and dynamic region.

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Learn how you can make an impact and discuss ways to maximize your charitable giving, today. Let's connect!

VOLUNTEER TODAY! Be part of the team as a Tacoma Arts Live volunteer – a fun and rewarding experience! Your energy, enthusiasm, and time will support special events, performance nights, education programs, community outreach, and administrative projects.

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MEMBERSHIP Enjoy exclusive and unique benefits designed to enhance your theater experience while deepening the impact of arts engagement in our community.

FRIEND $75

GRIT CITY PROFESSIONAL APPLAUSE NETWORK $180 $138

PREMIER $375

SPOTLIGHT PANTAGES PRODUCER $600 CIRCLE CIRCLE $1200 $2000

Advanced Ticket Sale Access Waived Ticket Exchanges Wait List Priority Special member pricing for select events Networking events with other Young Professionals Additional 10% savings on Tacoma Arts Live Flex Passes & Subscriptions Tacoma Arts Live tote bag or tumbler Brew Five Three Ticket Savings Access to Members’ Lounge Complimentary refreshments in Lounge Member Lounge Guest Passes Ticket voucher towards Tacoma Arts Live Presents events

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Member Concierge Service Invitation to behind-the-scenes sneak peek Season Preview First Access Invitation to Donor Social with the Executive Director Box Party including refreshments! ($1,000 value)

THEATER ANGELS $3,500

Theater Angels enable our Professional Regional Theater to present plays that stir conscience, engage empathy, and inspire audiences to live in thoughtful inquiry. With your support, we can hire the best in the region to bring the best of regional theater to our community.

All of the benefits of Spotlight Membership plus the following exclusive benefits: • Four tickets to 2021-2022 Theatre Program Season: GROUNDED, Anna in the Tropics, and Kim's Convenience.

• Invitation to Cast Table Reads, Opening Night Receptions, Donor Receptions, Closing Night Cast Parties, Community Talk Backs, and Play Readings and Discussions for Future Works.

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CONSERVATORY

Engages youth, adults, and seniors in classes that celebrate the performing arts and world cultures with opportunities to participate in stunning productions. Committed to providing programs throughout Pierce County that are economically, geographically, and culturally accessible. Classes include Ballet Folklorico, World Drumming, Acting, Creative Movement, Step, and more.

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LENS PROJECT

A dynamic Social Emotional Learning project that empowers students, families, service members, and veterans. LENS uses creative projects and art-based activities to teach positive social skills and foster the development of empathy for others, in programs hosted at partner schools, community centers, and on Joint Base Lewis–McChord.

CIVIL RIGHTS LEGACY TOUR

Guided by Dr. King’s quote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” this program has served more than 166,000 youth and adults with inspiring theater focused on social justice and civics education. Original performances tour K–12 schools throughout the region.

Contact the Education team at Education@TacomaArtsLive.org

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SUNDAY JANUARY 23, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $35

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PINK MARTINI The long-awaited concert with the Northwest’s favorite little orchestra featuring China Forbes.

“One of the world’s most elegant live bands.”

– The Times (UK)

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SATURDAY JANUARY 29, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $39

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WAR

50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR The evolution of WAR began in 1969…and has been evolving ever since. Funk music went mainstream because of the fresh beats of the original Afro-Cuban street band who shares timeless music and messages of brotherhood.

They went multi-platinum with hits like “Low Rider,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends,” “The Cisco Kid,” and many more.

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SMALL ISLAND BIG SONG Islanders share an ancient seafaring ancestry and language journey through this multimedia concert that is a stunning musical collaboration that reunites the distant yet interconnected musical traditions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

“Utterly wonderful.” – The Vancouver Sun

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“Our music came from the street and the challenges that everyday people struggle with,” says founding member Lonnie Jordan. “We expressed the pleasures and pains of those experiences which we are still confronting all these years later.”

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $19

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IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN LEGUIZAMO The Emmy and Tony Award-winner shares lessons he’s learned, characters he’s encountered, his passion for education, and his struggles against racism and poverty, all with flair and humor.

From November 2017 to February 2018, Leguizamo starred in the hit one-man Broadway show Latin History for Morons. Inspired by the near total absence of Latinos in his son’s American history class, Leguizamo embarked on a frenzied search to find a Latin hero for his son’s school project. From a mad recap of the Aztec empire to stories of unknown Latin patriots of the Revolutionary War and beyond, Leguizamo broke down the 3,000 years between the Mayans and Ricky Ricardo into 90 irreverent and uncensored minutes in his trademark style. The show was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Additionally, it was announced that Leguizamo would receive a special Tony Award for his lifetime body of work as both a playwright and performer.

“In theory, it sounds very difficult to talk non-stop for nearly two hours and manage to keep things engaging, but it seems effortless for Leguizamo…[whose] performance is so animated.”– On Stage & Screen

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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $29

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ENSEMBLE MIK NAWOOJ Never before have genres so disparate as hip-hop and classical meshed so seamlessly. Led by composer/pianist, JooWan Kim, Ensemble Mik Nawooj is a hip-hop orchestra that creates meta music by sampling classical composition techniques into hip-hop favorites, as well as original music.

Executed with MCs/lyricists Do D.A.T. and Sandman, a lyric soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, drums, and bass, the music is rigorous, nuanced, and accessible. The result is seamless tête-à-tête with “textures swimming through the sound…like the world’s fastest ping-pong game” (Pitchfork) and is considered the “cutting edge of hip-hop” (Huffington Post).

“Cutting edge hip-hop with classical drama…deliciously new.” – New York Music Daily

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2022 7:30 P.M. DOORS AT 6:30 P.M. ALMA MATER'S FAWCETT HALL Advanced Tickets: $30 Day of Tickets: $40

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RICHARD THOMPSON When Ivor Novello Award-winning and GRAMMY® Awardnominated legend Richard Thompson picks up a guitar, emotions echo through his deft fleet-fingered fretwork, poetic songwriting, and impassioned picking. Those transmissions culminate in his nineteenth solo album, 13 Rivers.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $29

Powered by evocative songcraft, jaw-dropping guitar playing, and indefinable spirit, this venerable icon holds a coveted spot on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and counts a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association in Nashville and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BBC Awards among his many accolades. Thompson garnered an OBE (Order of the British Empire) personally bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 2011. Moreover, TIME touted his anthem, “1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” on its “100 Greatest Songs Since 1923” list.

Thompson’s influence can’t be overstated. Everybody from Robert Plant, Don Henley, and Elvis Costello to REM, Sleater-Kinney and David Byrne has covered his music.

“The finest songwriter after Dylan and the best electric guitarist since Hendrix.” – Los Angeles Times

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8 PERFORMANCES! PREVIEW NIGHT: FEBRUARY 17 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 18 • 19 • 26 MARCH 4 • 5 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 27 • MARCH 6 3:00 P.M. THEATER ON THE SQUARE Preview Night: $12 Tickets start at $19

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GROUNDED

BY GEORGE BRANT Warrior. Mother. Partner. Pilot. Story of an ace fighter pilot whose career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy.

Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. Piloting remotely in the “chair force” does not sit well and becoming a mother brings shifted connections and priorities. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away. Ultimately, she struggles to compartmentalize her dual roles as a mother and a pilot become increasingly permeable.

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Performance contains adult language and themes.

“A fiercely good performance.” – The New York Times Please note: Preview Night tickets do not qualify for subscription packages or discounts.

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PAULA POUNDSTONE Known for her clever, observational humor and a spontaneous wit, Paula Poundstone delivers the stuff of comedy legends. TIME magazine, in the March 2020 “Best of” issue, listed Paula’s HBO special, Cats, Cops and Stuff as one of “The 5 Funniest Stand-Up Specials Ever.” She can be heard weekly as the host of the comedy podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and as a regular panelist on NPR’s comedy news quiz, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Paula tours regularly, appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi. Paula was the first woman, in its then 73rd year, to perform standup and host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, sharing the dais with the then President of the United States.

She has starred in several HBO specials, including Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard. Paula just released a new album, Paula Poundstone Goes to College (one night only).

She is the winner of an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic and has accumulated a list of other awards and accolades too long to mention. She continues to be recognized in innumerable lists, documentaries, and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $22

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“A Poundstone show has never been duplicated by anyone -- even her -- that's the beauty in her stream-ofconsciousness brand of comedy.” – Lincoln Journal Star

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SATURDAY MARCH 12, 2022 7:30 P.M.

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PETER SAGAL As the host of National Public Radio’s Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!, Peter Sagal is heard by more than 3 million people every week. Sagal attended Harvard University and subsequently embarked on a lively career as a literary manager for a regional theater, stage director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter for a former adult film impresario and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine. He is the author of numerous plays that have been performed in large and small theaters around the country and abroad. In his current role with Wait, Wait ..., Sagal leads guest panelists in a satirical romp through the week’s news. He will talk about this experience in his Tacoma Arts Live appearance, offering both colorful commentary on current events and a behind-the-scenes peek at the funniest show on radio.

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“If you are the kind of person who listens to public radio — this is right up your alley.” – Chicago Tribune

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8 PERFORMANCES! PREVIEW NIGHT: MARCH 24 7:30 P.M. MARCH 25 • 26 APRIL 2 • 8 • 9 7:30 P.M. APRIL 3 • 10 3:00 P.M. THEATER ON THE SQUARE Preview Night: $12 Tickets start at $19

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ANNA IN THE TROPICS

BY NILO CRUZ

The poignant and poetic play set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand, and “lectors” are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners – for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and the American dream prove a volatile combination.

Infidelity, money problems, and violence spring to the surface as the owners and workers grapple with their newfound understanding of life, love, and business. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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“Lights a powder keg of passion.” – Los Angeles Times

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Save the date! Join this in person night of inspiration, joy, and fundraising to support arts access and education.

Delight your senses with fine dining, refreshments, LIVE entertainment, and a VIVID array of colors. Let your imagination run wild in your best visual kaleidoscope of high fashion with bright, bold, unusual, shimmering, and colorful wear.

Your participation will help keep the arts alive and accessible to our South Sound community. Tacoma Arts Live annually provides $100,000 in free tickets to individuals, serves more than 50,000 students, partners with local organizations to provide critical needs, and delivers more than $35,000 in scholarship support.

SATURDAY MARCH 26, 2022 TIN CAN ALLEY Tickets: $175

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Event sponsorships available. Learn more! Contact Kyleigh Palmer, Presenting and Sponsorships Manager at Kpalmer@TacomaArtsLive.org.

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VIDEO GAMES LIVE

WITH SYMPHONY TACOMA Video Games Live™ is an award-winning immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Created, produced, and hosted by worldrenowned game industry veteran and superstar Tommy Tallarico, top orchestras and choirs around the world perform along with exclusive synchronized video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, well known internet solo performers, electronic percussion, live-action, and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Picture the energy and excitement of a rock concert mixed with the power and emotion of a symphony orchestra combined together by the technology, interactivity, stunning visuals and fun that only video games can provide.

SATURDAY APRIL 2, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $39

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“Captivating! Bombastic!” – The New York Times

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SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2022 7:30 P.M.

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THE BRITISH INVASION LIVE ON STAGE

This immersive multi-media show will place you at the front and center of pop culture history. Huge projection period photos and original film footage recreate the era’s excitement, fashion, and headlines; all the while a full live band performs all of the hits of the swingin’ 60s; the iconic British pop sound that swept across America and the world.

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon that completely redirected the course of history. In January 1964, America was still mourning the death of President John F. Kennedy and everything seemed to be in a vacuum; music was dominated by manufactured teen idols; Elvis was in Hollywood; everything was squeaky clean and dull.

On February 9, 1964, close to 50% of US television viewers tuned in to the #1 variety show of the era, The Ed Sullivan Show, to witness the American debut of a British group called The Beatles.

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The very next morning; all music, art, fashion, literature… in fact, the very essence of pop culture had been transformed, erased, re-vitalized, and reinvigorated.

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RANKY TANKY This Grammy Award-winning quintet performs timeless music born from the Gullah culture of the southeastern Sea Islands. In Gullah, Ranky Tanky translates loosely as “Work It!” or “Get Funky!” Come experience how this joyous group does both. Their debut album was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and the TODAY show. It also soared to the #1 position on the Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes Jazz Charts. Playful game songs, ecstatic shouts, and heartbreaking spirituals can all be found on their latest release Good Time, which also offers the group’s first original songs inspired by Gullah tradition.

“Ranky Tanky’s music is relentlessly upbeat and infectious…” – Jazz Times

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SATURDAY APRIL 9, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $19

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SUNDAY APRIL 10, 2022 7:30 P.M.

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THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS WITH BILL MEDLEY AND BUCKY HEARD

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo, The Righteous Brothers, topped the charts over four decades. Now, Bill Medley joins forces with one of the most versatile vocalists in America, Bucky Heard, to bring all your faves to life.

The Righteous Brothers concert experience features a string of their biggest #1 hits, including You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’ (the most played song in radio history), Soul & Inspiration, Unchained Melody, Rock and Roll Heaven, Medley’s Grammy-winning Dirty Dancing theme The Time of My Life, and much more!

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Heaven, Medley’s Grammy-winning Dirty Dancing theme The Time of My Life, and much, much more!

“They still generate the vocal excitement that made them a sensation a quarter-century ago.” – Los Angeles Times

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THE QUEEN’S CARTOONISTS Feel the joy, heart, and manic energy of classic cartoons in an all new way as The Queen’s Cartoonists play music live alongside your favorite animation. This jazz band specializes in live cartoon music with lightning fast swing arrangements, sync’d video projections, vocal numbers, and comedy. Enjoy stories and anecdotes involving the cartoons and their composers with music from classic Warner Brothers cartoons, early Disney films, cult cartoon favorites, and modern animation. Featured composers include Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Danny Elfman, Alf Clausen, John Williams, and countless adaptations of classical favorites. The Queen’s Cartoonists tap into the rich tradition of cartoon music to bring a fun, cross-generational concert experience!

SUNDAY APRIL 24, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $19

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“The pleasure of the perfect synchrony of sound and pictures...” – Mashable Media

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FRIDAY APRIL 29, 2022 7:30 P.M.

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MARIACHI REYNA DE LOS ANGELES® DE JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ

ALMA MATER'S FAWCETT HALL

America’s first all-female mariachi ensemble, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles® de José Hernández brings sensitivity, beauty, warmth and vivacious spirit to the historic art of mariachi. They have blazed the trail for female mariachi musicians. In a musical landscape where songs are often written by men, from male perspectives, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles® de José Hernández has created its own history.

Under the leadership of an eight-time Grammy nominee, they were the first female Mariachi to break out of local level recognition to international stardom with original compositions, arrangements, and interpretations of mariachi classics.

Advance Tickets: $30 Day of Tickets: $40

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“Armed with their joyous yell, a signature grito, the members of Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles assume their rightful place as role models…groundbreakers and torchbearers.”– Guitar Girl Magazine

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SATURDAY MAY 7, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $29

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“Audiences will be in for a treat seeing the satirists behind one of television’s top late-night shows show off their individual comedic styles.” – DC Metro Theater Arts

THE DAILY SHOW WRITERS COMEDY TOUR The humor and satire of fan-favorite The Daily Show takes the stage as four of the brilliant minds behind the jokes come to Tacoma. This late-night talk and news program has won 24 Primetime Emmy Awards since its inception, and continues as one of the most engaging social series across all late night TV. More relevant than ever — comics Kat Radley, Matt Koff, Joe Opio, and Randall Otis go from making fun of their failed dating lives, to being a cat owner, and talking politics - this show has something for everyone!

Note: This event is appropriate for ages 16 and older.

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SUNDAY MAY 15, 2022 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER Tickets start at $19

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“…fascinating stories and groundbreaking music…”

– Broadway World

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NEIL BERG’S 50 YEARS OF ROCK & ROLL With a cast consisting of both stars from Broadway's greatest rock musicals, as well as incredible Rock & Roll singers, Neil Berg shares the often unknown stories from the fifty-year history of the music that changed the world forever!

From the origins of Rock and Roll in the 1940s, through the glory years of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, up until MTV in the early '80s, Neil Berg's 50 Years of Rock & Roll uses fascinating stories and groundbreaking music, with tributes to such important and iconic rock stars/groups/genres as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Frankie Valli, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Motown, Aretha Franklin, The Who, Janis Joplin, Woodstock, Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Disco, New Wave, Journey, and others!

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10 PERFORMANCES! PREVIEW NIGHT: JUNE 2 7:30 P.M. JUNE 3 • 4 • 10 • 11 • 17 • 18 7:30 P.M. JUNE 12 • 18 • 19 3:00 P.M. THEATER ON THE SQUARE Preview Night: $12 Tickets start at $19

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KIM'S CONVENIENCE

BY INS CHOI

Family, even if imperfect, means everything in Kim’s Convenience. Follow the Kims, proprietors of a convenience store, in this award-winning play. They face business challenges – gentrification, the threat of a new chain-store – and the family conflicts of a widening generation gap, with humor and love. Through it all parents Sang-Il, Yong-mi, their unmarried daughter Janet, and disappointing son Jung, learn to see each other in a new light. This hilarious and heartwarming story (recently turned into a Netflix sitcom) reminds us that family isn’t always convenient, but it might be the best deal out there.

Performance contains adult language and themes.

“… full of laughs and heart.” – Broadway World

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FRIDAY JUNE 10, 2022 7:30 P.M.

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THE TEMPTATIONS The Temptations’ near endless list of classics serve as the soundtrack of the last 60 years. Their story is an epic journey of courage, struggle, triumphs, setbacks, and ultimately, international superstardom. The genesis and magnitude of their greatness is one of the most extraordinary stories of the 20th and 21st Centuries. In November of 2019 Billboard Magazine named them one of the 125 “Greatest of All Time Artists” in music. Their hit songs range from “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Beauty Is only Skin Deep,” to “My Girl,” all which have attained immortality.

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“[The] Greatest R&B / hip-hop artists of all time.”

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RISE UP

SATURDAY JUNE 18, 2022 7:30 P.M.

Don’t throw away your shot to see Rise Up!

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THE MUSIC OF HAMILTON AND BROADWAY Rise Up is an ensemble of top Seattle vocalists and musicians that perform the music of Hamilton and other Broadway hits including In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, RENT, Waitress, and more. Rise Up delivers a concert that captures sophistication, emotion, and energy of all your favorite Broadway shows! The band was runner up for Seattle Weekly's Best of Seattle 2018 Best Musical Act and was named Kirkland Performance Center's 2019 Artist of the Year.

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“Rise Up! brings the beats of [the] blockbuster to life.”

– Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

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GOOD TO KNOW: Box Office: 253.346.1721 Located at Tacoma Armory • 1001 S. Yakima Ave • Tacoma, WA 98405 Open hours may vary, please check TacomaArtsLive.org for current hours of operation. Opens at the venue two hours prior to most events.

• The Box Office will make every attempt to meet your seating requests; we are unable to guarantee all seats requested will be available at the time of purchase. All tickets are processed in the order received. Full payment is required at the time of reservation.

• In the interest of keeping guests and staff protected and healthy, all venues require staff, artists, volunteers, and attendees 12 years old and above to provide proof of either a full COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 PCR test result within 72 hours of the event.

All guests are required to wear a mask while inside, for the duration of the show.

• All patrons will be required to show government-issued ID in addition to one of the following for entry: ♦ Your vaccine card ♦ A clear and legible photocopy of your vaccine card ♦ Photo of your vaccine card on your phone ♦ A digital vaccine passport or record ♦ A negative COVID-19 PCR test result obtained within 72 hours of the event • A ticket is required for everyone entering the theaters, regardless of age. No babes in arms are allowed, unless otherwise noted.

• If you are concerned about the suitability of events for children, please contact the Box Office. Children under five (5) are generally not permitted, unless the show is a family program, specifically for younger audiences and fun for the entire family.

• If you are unable to use your tickets, you may exchange for another “Tacoma Arts Live presents” event within the season, which ends in June 2022. There is a $5 per ticket fee for all exchanges. Exchanges must be made at least 24-hours before your original ticketed event. Tacoma Arts Live Members may exchange tickets free of charge!

• Artists and programs are subject to change without notice.

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