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Johnny Cash continues to be larger than life, even in death, courtesy of the Cash Experience

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2024

Debbie Horton can’t help but laugh in giddy fashion while detailing what it was like to jam with Johnny Cash more than 30 years ago.

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Stage Left’s latest, ‘Fun Home,’ is dark, dysfunctional and dramatic

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2024

"Fun Home" is a dark, unique Tony award winning musical inspired by the unusual childhood of graphic novelist Alison Bechdel.

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Review: ‘Six’ is not your standard musical. It’s a 90-minute, flashy pop concert filled with queens.

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2024

“Welcome to the show/ To the historemix/ Switching up the flow/ As we add the prefix”

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Who were the ‘Six’ wives of Henry VIII?

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2024

Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived.

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‘Good People’ runs for three weeks at Spokane Civic Theatre, showcasing class divisions, life choices and Deborah Marlowe’s take on the Boston accent

Fri., Jan. 19, 2024

As a professional voiceover actor, Deborah Marlowe has a leg up when it comes to mimicking regional accents. Her soothing, trusted tones can be heard nationwide, portraying dramatic characters in video games, selling breath fresheners and house cleansers in commercials, and narrating art museum tours and nature films, just to name some of her professional voicework.

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Nate Bargatze has made the leap from Spokane Comedy Club to Spokane Arena

Fri., Jan. 19, 2024

Nate Bargatze will perform a new set of material Thursday at the Spokane Arena.

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Six wives trump one tyrannical king in award-winning musical at the First Interstate

Thu., Jan. 18, 2024

If you believe that comedy is tragedy plus time, then “Six” is your musical. The Tony award-winning play is a modern retelling of the lives and executions of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The star-crossed wives, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr, each tell their story to determine who suffered the most from their common husband.

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The ‘funniest person in the world’ will make his Spokane debut at the Bing

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 11, 2024

Finnish comic Ismo Leikola will compare and contrast Finnish and American language and lifestyles Saturday at the Bing Crosby Theater.

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A comic who gets deep and dark returns to Spokane Comedy Club stage

Thu., Jan. 4, 2024

Comic-actress Erica Rhodes will deliver her dark and quirky material at the Spokane Comedy Club.

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A gem of a play has been revived for a short run at the Spokane Civic Theatre

Thu., Jan. 4, 2024

Merrily We Roll Along is a gem of a play that slipped through the cracks of history. However, the clever story of three friends climbing the entertainment ladder, has been revived and runs Friday through Sunday at the Spokane Civic.

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Jeff Foxworthy acolyte hopes to ‘slay’ at the Spokane Comedy Club

Thu., Jan. 4, 2024

Dusty Slay will render his observations Friday and Saturday at the Spokane Comedy Club.

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‘That’s so fetch’: Tim Meadows, reprising role in Mean Girls musical, will appear Friday at Spokane Comedy Club

Thu., Dec. 28, 2023

Comic Tim Meadows, who will reprise his role as the principal in the forthcoming film, "Mean Girls," will perform Friday and Saturday at the Spokane Comedy Club.

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Old school comic Michael Loftus will deliver his observations at Spokane Comedy Club

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 21, 2023

Old school comic Michael Loftus, who has written TV scripts for Kevin James and Charlie Sheen, will deliver observational humor.

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Spokane Comedy Club showcases new talent every Tuesday

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 21, 2023

New talent Tuesdays feature emerging comedic talent.

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Anything goes at the surprising Cirque Dream Holidaze from hula hooping to hair hanging

Fri., Dec. 15, 2023

Expect eclectic entertainment at Cirque Dream Holidaze. The range of fun ranges from the conventional, singing and comedy to the quirky, hula hooping and hair hanging.

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Blue Door Theatre offers sneak peek into new Milk Bottle space as it hosts last Garland District events

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 14, 2023

An improv theater that has spent two decades in the Garland District is moving into one of Spokane’s landmark milk bottle buildings downtown.

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The ultimate Swiftie is a comic who will deliver material at the Spokane Tribe Casino

Fri., Dec. 8, 2023

Comic Nikki Glaser will deliver a new batch of material at Spokane Tribe Casino. The devoted Swiftie details why she splurged for nine Taylor Swift shows throughout the country.

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‘Waitress: The Musical,’ featuring Spokane-born actor, premieres at River Park Square AMC

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 7, 2023

AMC is bringing “Waitress: The Musical,” the Tony-nominated Broadway show, to the big screen.

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From the Old Spaghetti Factory dining room to the Fox stage with a Drag Queen Christmas

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 7, 2023

It's a holiday drag show with such drag queen luminaries as Miz Kracker, Alyssa Edwards and Sasha Colby at the Fox.

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Stage review: Aaron Sorkin’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a refreshing twist on original novel

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 7, 2023

How do you adapt a book as universally known and beloved as To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage? After all, Harper Lee’s coming-of-age story about racism in the Depression-era American south has been read by (or at least assigned to) nearly every single high-schooler in the nation in the sixty years since it was published. There was even an Oscar-winning movie in 1962, in which actor Gregory Peck had all of America fantasizing about growing up with a dad as noble as small-town lawyer Atticus Finch.

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