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

Performance Rachel Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003, by an Israeli soldier who, out of negligence or malice, crushed the 23-year-old Evergreen College student under the blade of a Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer ...   More

Performance In the spirit of fairness, I’d like to say right now that Sunset Boulevard—Andrew Lloyd Webber’s slavish stage adaptation of Billy Wilder’s 1950 film—is not the worst pie ...   More

Performance My first acting experience was in 1994, as a boy stealing a pie in The Sheepskin Revue, an annual production accompanying the Scio Lamb and Wool Fair, in which I was a regular participant for most of ...   More

Performance On May 6, 1937, the radio reporter Herbert Morrison was an unwilling witness to the explosion of the Hindenberg. In the face of unspeakable tragedy, Morrison kept right on broadcasting, abandoning his ...   More

Performance Fishing. It’s not in my family’s history, but it’s in our American consciousness, and the importance is undeniable. This importance is expertly parodied and honored by Chris Harder&m ...   More

Performance Eugene O’Neill’s magnum opus is a masterpiece of American playwriting, but keeping an audience engaged through its 3 1/2 solid hours of drug addiction, alcoholism, chronic illness and fami ...   More

Performance The presence of William Hurt, the celebrated actor of Altered States and Kiss of the Spider Woman, is the prime selling point of Sydney Theatre Company’s new production of Eugene O’Neill&r ...   More

Performance Two years ago, Portland choreographer Jessica Wallenfels set up a table at Portland Center Stage’s annual theater fair with a sign reading, “Do you know Van Morrison?” “I want ...   More

Performance Portland comedy fans are legion, but until recently, they had few places to go. The first Bridgetown Comedy Festival in 2008 put our city on the map as a destination for big-name comedians. But where ...   More