July 2018 Newsletter
The State of the State Damn, it’s hot. I’m not complaining. I love summer, particularly those long luscious days when sunset doesn’t come until after 9 p.m. Summer is about [...]
Chess–a good story, a great musical
Lakewood Theatre has kicked of its 66th season with the musical Chess–a major musical that most of us have never heard of. Written by Richard Nelson, with music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny [...]
The Marriage Plot
In Kate Hamill‘s stage adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Sense & Sensibility, now onstage at Clackamas Repertory Theatre, the play opens with a corpse. Poor Mr. Dashwood has expired [...]
Music! Marriage! Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! is one of the most fun musicals to ever grace a stage, so it only makes sense that Broadway Rose Theatre would include it as one of their productions in its 2018 Season of Irresistible [...]