The faces of Ferguson
The first thing audience members need to know before attending Until the Flood at Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Ellyn Bye Studio is that playwright Dael Orlandersmith is a tour de [...]
The power of the hat
When Brooklyn teen Yolanda (Kelli Bee) and her family suffer an unspeakable tragedy, she is shipped off to South Carolina to stay with her grandmother, Mother Shaw (Marilyn Keller), a strong, [...]
Wolf seeks pack….
Wolf Play begins with a most unsuitable premise. Peter (Chris Harder) and his wife have decided they no longer want their adopted son Wolf (Christopher Larkin). The kid is called Peter, by the [...]
A dark and stormy farce!
It is a dark and stormy night when Tristram (Spencer Conway) arrives at a rickety three-story home called The Pines in the British countryside to assist his firm’s client, Roland (Jeremy [...]
Our souls at night
Portlanders know exactly where they are when they first see Megan Wilkerson’s set for Tiny Beautiful Things at Portland Center Stage. It’s a big old Craftsman bungalow in Northeast [...]
March Newsletter
The State of the State “February is the cruelest month in western Oregon”, or so says amateur sleuth Emma Golden in The Difficult Sister, the second book in my Emma Golden Mystery [...]