Tacoma Arts Live

Tacoma Arts Live Energizing community through live performance
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Tacoma Arts Live is a non-profit arts organization deeply connected to the community and recognized for presenting-world class artists, events, exhibitions, and cultural celebrations. We are leading arts access and education programs that support the development of thoughtful, balanced, and engaged citizens. Located at the historic Tacoma Armory, an innovative cultural hub, Tacoma Arts Live delive

rs vibrant arts, culture, and community gatherings that are transforming live performing arts and elevating the artistic caliber of the South Sound.

Check out what’s happening at the Tacoma Armory ✨For more info or tickets visit TacomaArtsLive.org
10/08/2025

Check out what’s happening at the Tacoma Armory ✨

For more info or tickets visit TacomaArtsLive.org

10/08/2025

Tacoma’s R&B king is home.
Rocky Sandoval hits The Eleanor this Friday Oct. 10 ✨

🎟️ Get your tickets now at TacomaArtsLive.org

Tacoma Arts Live and Northwest Playwrights Alliance are teaming up to showcase the region’s most exciting emerging playw...
10/06/2025

Tacoma Arts Live and Northwest Playwrights Alliance are teaming up to showcase the region’s most exciting emerging playwrights through a dynamic series of staged readings.

If you love seeing words leap off the page and onto the stage, this one’s for you. Each reading ends with an open discussion, where your feedback helps shape the plays in progress.

🎟 Tickets are free (donations encouraged)
📍 Tacoma Armory
💬 Be part of the process. Champion local voices.

Upcoming readings:
🗓 Oct 6 – “The Rest of Us” by Amy Tofte
A group of high school girls confront friendship, abuse, and consequence in a powerful coming-of-age story.

🗓 Oct 20 – “The Unshored” by Maggie Lee
A haunting tale set at the edge of eternity—where the departed must decide who to sail with next.

🗓 Nov 3 – “Seven Ways to Get There” by Bryan Willis
Seven men. One therapy group. Endless ways to face what’s really going on.

More coming in 2025:
Tumbleweed (Feb 9) + Participatory 10-Minute Plays (Mar 2)

Special thanks to the Campbell-Loan Family for supporting this series.

Check out what’s coming up this October at the Tacoma Armory✨
10/03/2025

Check out what’s coming up this October at the Tacoma Armory✨

10/03/2025

Deconstructing The Dark Side of the Moon 🌘
Saturday Oct. 25 | Tacoma Armory

Scott Freiman, known for his popular Deconstructing the Beatles series, brings his Deconstructing The Dark Side of the Moon presentation to Tacoma Armory!

Celebrate 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with an in-depth, two-hour journey through its creation. Freiman tells the story of Dark Side – from its development on the road, to the recording sessions at EMI Studios, to the release and subsequent tour. As in all Freiman’s presentations, you can expect a fun mix of storytelling with rare audio, video, and photos.

For tickets and more info head over to TacomaArtsLive.org

10/02/2025

🎶✨LP and The Vinyl are bringing their genre blending magic to the Tacoma Armory on October 3 at 7:30 PM!
Renowned jazz, blues, and gospel singer Leonard Patton joins forces with the acclaimed Danny Green Trio for a sound that’s as dynamic as it is unforgettable.
From reimagined Stevie Wonder and Beatles favorites, to funky spins on jazz standards, to original grooves, this show has it all.

Don’t wait grab your tickets now at the link in our bio and experience LP and The Vinyl live ✨🎶

It happens here! ✨For more info and tickets head over to TacomaArtsLive.org
09/24/2025

It happens here! ✨

For more info and tickets head over to TacomaArtsLive.org

✨ 🍋Last night’s Lemon Sessions: Migrations, Forced & Chosen left the Armory glowing with sound, story, and stunning proj...
09/19/2025

✨ 🍋Last night’s Lemon Sessions: Migrations, Forced & Chosen left the Armory glowing with sound, story, and stunning projection art. Tonight is your final chance to witness this extraordinary collaboration before Lemon Sessions goes quiet for a while.

🌍 Through music, dance, spoken word, and visuals, artists reflected migration stories stretching from Africa and the Black Diaspora to Cambodia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, and beyond.

🎶 Featuring: Ben Hunter, Duo Takinai, Trío Guadalevín, Rogelio Rigor, Marisela & Alejandro Fleites, and Claudia Castro-Luna.
🎨 Visual artists: Fulgencio Lazo, Deepti Agrawal, Saiyare Refaei.
🎤 Hosted by Silong Chhun.

If you missed it yesterday, don’t let it slip away tonight. Tickets are limited.

👉 Grab your seat now at the link in our bio or at TacomaArtsLive.org

📸: Chris Paredes

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Energizing community through live performance

Tacoma Arts Live is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is recognized for leadership in presenting world-class performing artists, providing one of the largest arts education programs in the nation, and preserving and activating Tacoma’s historic theaters. The organization manages the largest complex of theaters between Seattle and Portland: Pantages Theater (seating 1272, built in 1918, and renovated in 2018); the Rialto Theater (seating 739, also built in 1918, and restored 1991); and Theater on the Square (seating 302, built in 1993). Its mission is to "energize community through live performance." Tacoma Arts Live believes in the power of bringing people together – physically in a theater, intellectually through ideas, and emotionally through sharing great stories. Attending live entertainment reminds us to be open to feel, to learn, and to appreciate humanity.

With over 40 presenting shows in the 2019-2020 season, an arts education program that serves over 55,000 students, teachers, and families throughout the South Sound, and a newly launched professional regional theater program providing northwest artists with paid opportunities, Tacoma Arts Live is committed to using the performing arts as a platform to build a more resilient, dynamic and connected community.