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There's a giant intellect hammering away inside the slim form of Charles Smith. Angelic troubadour on display along with the other old world instruments merrily pinging small hammers, filling our entrance into the studio theater with a birdsong of lilting, sweet thrumming. Warming up, his delicate, precise hands nevertheless apparently sometimes hit the wrong keys...as his face will tell you. Grimace, eyes widening, a shrug, slight sigh...begin again. The performance is already afoot as I can see personality at play and in connection with his instrument.

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My Arm is Up in the Air

My Arm is up in the Air Mar 25, 2011

In Tobias Wolff’s story “Bullet in the Brain,” a curmudgeonly book critic is shot at point blank range by a bank robber whose linguistic clichés the critic can’t help mocking. The bullet’s physical speed of 900 feet per second, becomes “a pathetically sluggish, glacial pace compared to the synaptic lighting” inside the critic’s skull. “Once it entered the brain,” Wolff writes, “the bullet came under the mediation of brain time.”

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My Arm is Up in the Air

Instruments in My Arm is Up in the Air Mar 24, 2011

Charles Smith uses 3 instruments in his show that you won't find everywhere. Here's a little tour of what you'll see on the stage:

Hammered Dulcimer

[Image courtesy of whamdiddle.com]

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New tickets available for Charles Smith's My Arm is Up in the Air Mar 23, 2011

We have just released new tickets for this weekend's performance of My Arm is Up in the Air, meaning that the previously sold out night are now available!

Get your tickets now. The news is so fresh that we're still waiting for our ticketing site to refresh with a link, but you can call 206.217.9888 to snatch up a ticket in the meantime.

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4 New Films at OntheBoards.tv! Mar 23, 2011

We're thrilled to have launched 4 new films in the past 2 weeks. Check them out at OntheBoards.tv.

Ralph Lemon

How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere

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Catherine Cabeen leads a tour at SAM this Friday Mar 16, 2011

Catherine Cabeen will be leading a My Favorite Things tour at SAM this Friday, March 18th, from 6:30-7:00. Catherine bills the tour as "highly opinionated" tour that looks at the intersectios between the visual and performing arts. It should be a great precursor to her show Into the Void at OtB this April. For more info visit SAM's website.