It’s a wonderful radio play!
Anyone familiar with the 1946 Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life (starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed) or in need of a feel-good evening of entertainment will love Joe [...]
Portland Playhouse’s A Christmas Carol
Okay, call me a sucker. I’m a sucker for Christmas stories. Not the ones we see on the Hallmark channel, but real Christmas stories–like that poor couple who travel to Bethlehem to [...]
Everybody Dies
What does everybody fear most? Why, death, of course. Women may fear childbirth. There is something near-death-like about it. But death? Death happens to everybody. Which is why some may find [...]
The Blind Side
It’s Thanksgiving Day 2000, and everyone in a certain East Village apartment are up to the task except the hostess, Ellen (Beth Thompson). She is obsessing about the results from the recent [...]
The night the orphans unionized
A funny thing happened at Portland Center Stage the other night. Dorothy and Toto and Little Orphan Annie showed up onstage in a show about Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Carol. How are [...]