Performance Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake is just as absurdly silly as it is politically dramatic. In this production, directed by Third Rail Repertory’s Scott Yarbrough, the ironic political satire achie ... More
Chesapeake (Profile Theatre)
Todd Van Voris’ life as a dog.
Performance Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake is just as absurdly silly as it is politically dramatic. In this production, directed by Third Rail Repertory’s Scott Yarbrough, the ironic political satire achie ... More
Stage Left Lost (Imago Theatre)
Mr. Mouawad, I am confused.
Performance Jerry Mouawad doesn’t much seem to care whether audiences understand his work. Though he is the co-creator of the immediately accessible Frogz and Biglittlethings, Mouawad’s shows for adul ... More
Hansel And Gretel (Portland Opera)
Have your cake and be it too.
Performance Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel has always been an oddity in opera. Its music owes as much to the larky simplicities of folk songs and musical theater as it does to Wagnerian Sturm und ... More
Oregon Stories Of War (The Telling Project)
Listen to the voices for the forgotten wars.
Performance You probably don’t spend much time, on a day-to-day basis, thinking about war. I don’t. The country has been embroiled in violent overseas conflict since my last year of high school, leavi ... More
Psycho (Oregon Symphony)
One killer score.
Performance On an October night many years ago, I awoke suddenly, my heart pounding, gasping for breath, still in the grip of a terrifying nightmare. What sparked such nocturnal panic? I’d left the radio on ... More
BloodyVox (BodyVox)
Things that go jump in the night.
Performance What scares BodyVox dancer Eric Skinner? Scary clowns climbing through his bedroom window. Skinner’s childhood nightmare of invasive circus freaks provided fodder for BloodyVox, BodyVox’s ... More
Unsettle Me: Tahni Holt’s Culture Machine
Performance Tahni Holt doesn’t care if you like her latest dance performance. Whether you think it’s good or bad is beside the point. What she cares about is how you assign meaning as you watch the da ... More
Telethon (Portland Playhouse)
An honestly soul-crushing comedy.
Performance You think your job sucks? Talk to someone who works in for-profit social services. They work awful hours for miserable pay, constrained by draconian bureaucracy, caring for people whose mental illness ... More
An Iliad (Portland Center Stage)
An epic performance acquits a tricky script.
Performance Beneath the bulging muscle, the polished armor, the gleaming fleets and onlooking deities, The Iliad, Homer’s poem of the ugliest battle of the Trojan war, boils down to this: Dying fighting in ... More
Pagliacci/Carmina Burana (Portland Opera)
Murderous clowns never sounded so good.
Performance The curtain rises. Onstage, in bright lights, lie the corpses of a woman in clown paint and a young man in plain clothes. Nearby sits the jealous husband who has stabbed them. The townspeople are pois ... More
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Come for the laughs, stay for the body-chopping.
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. The Scene (Portland Playhouse)
How to succeed in show business without really trying. One Night With Janis Joplin (PCS)
Miles and miles and miles of heart. 99 Ways To Fuck A Swan (Theatre Vertigo)
Ever wondered what Leda saw in that bird? Bust (Portland Center Stage)
Lauren Weedman gets the jailhouse blues. Futura (Portland Center Stage)
Beware Jeff Bezos! Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Summer Spock theater. Hairspray (Broadway Rose)
A big, campy dance party—in Tigard. The Wonderful World Of Dissocia (Third Rail)
Maureen Porter in the realms of the unreal. The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Artists Rep)
Come for the laughs, stay for the body-chopping.
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