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Just when you’re one headline away from throwing in the towel, a beautiful new comedy hits the Main Stage at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. Karen Zacarias‘s  Native Gardens is [...]

There is a reason journalists use “man on the street” interviews. It is because they work so well. They grab the audience as nothing else can. When the microphone is placed in front [...]

What does the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s have two do with two women on the Isle of Wight forty years later? Quite a bit, actually. When Frances Beale (Julia Brothers) comes [...]

“My mother is a fantastically energetic person trapped in an utterly exhausted body,” says Lisa (Allison Mickelson) near the beginning of Lisa Kron‘s play Well (which in [...]

In playwright Eve Johnstone‘s retelling of the old English poem Beowulf, Fire and Meat, the monster Grendel is the main character, and the hero’s journey is hers to tell. The new [...]

It’s an odd collection of characters assembled on the Artists Repertory Theatre stage in Lauren Gunderson‘s The Revolutionists. They include the French feminist, activist, and artist [...]

The State of the State Friday night I watched the Blazers play the Nuggets in the NBA playoffs. It was a home game, and I was hooked up to a friend’s ESPN, all by myself save for a dog and [...]

Lakewood Theatre Company ends its 66th season in on a high note with the popular romantic-comedy musical Singin’ In The Rain.  The musical, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music [...]