You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Company, a musical that examines the institution of marriage, opened Friday night at Broadway Rose Theatre Company in Tigard. Set in New York City, written by George Furth, with music and lyrics [...]
Action, adventure, hero’s journey
A massive, new, American epic tale of adventure, endurance, and survival roared onto the Main Stage at Portland Center Stage last weekend. It was Astoria: Part I, the world premiere, and before [...]
D.B. Cooper – man of mystery
More than 45 years ago, on Thanksgiving weekend, a man with $200,000 in hijack ransom jumped out of a plane destined to Reno from Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport. Earlier that day, he’d [...]
Luxury, surprise, and murder!
There are few things more enticing to the mystery lover than a classic murder mystery that also is a play. Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie, currently playing at Lakewood Theatre, is just [...]
Fertile Ground Festival 2017
Eleven days. More than 45 producers. Forty-four Portland-area venues. Portland, are you ready for the 9th annual Fertile Ground Festival 2017, a city-wide festival of theatrical works? Running [...]
The books of 2016
2016 ended on a high note for me, literarily speaking. I read some extraordinary books in November and December. As this is one of my favorite blogs of the year, I can’t wait to share them [...]