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Dec. 7, 2021 - ArtsWest stages a comeback
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ArtsWest stages a comeback.
Broken bridge? Pandemic? ArtsWest stages a comeback anyway.
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Dec. 7, 2021 - ArtsWest stages a comeback
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Broken bridge? Pandemic? ArtsWest stages a comeback anyway.
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Months before most of Seattle's other theater companies reopen, ArtsWest's Playhouse and Gallery is defying the odds to stage a comeback show.
ArtsWest used to draw about half its audience from the roughly 80,000 people who live in West Seattle, but that was before the pandemic and also before the West Seattle Bridge closed in March 2020.
The latest estimate for when the bridge will fully reopen is summer of 2022, but ArtsWest isn't waiting around.
The company's ambitious season kicked off with the world premiere of "We've Battled Monsters Before," a family-friendly musical by Seattle composer Justin Huertas.
This whimsical two-person show is about a demon-fighting Seattle family and it was inspired by the Filipino epic poem "Ibong Adarna."
Huertas not only wrote and composed the show but stars in it too, with local singer-songwriter Rheanna Atendido.
I'm Starla Sampaco.
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