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While the Northwest Playwrights Alliance is holding a sold out workshop with Steven Dietz this weekend and its stage readings on Monday and then its Double Shot Festival next weekend, something must be in the works. The group is preparing to move its readings from Tacoma to Seattle in the fall.

NPA will be offer its free monthly reading at 7 p.m. Monday at the Broadway Center, 915 Broadway in Tacoma. The reading will be A Play that Begins and Ends with a Dream by Nate Harpel and directed  by Eva Suter.

Buried in the notice for the meeting was this little note "NPA update:  We're moving our monthly reading series to Seattle Rep beginning Sept. 8." That will be a long drive for the brains behind the operation, Bryan Willis, who lives down in Mcleary, but I guess he has to go where the support is.

NPA and University of Puget Sound are staging their second Annual Double Shot festival May 23 and 24 at Rausch Auditorium in McIntyre Hall on the UPS campus. Tickets are $8 to $10 at the door or by calling 253.879.3419. All proceeds benefit the Northwest Playwrights Alliance's Festival of New Works and reading series. This year's festival will feature 16 playwrights and directors and more than 60 actors theaters and schools in the South Sound, as well as some of the best talent from Bellingham to Centralia.