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Shakespeare aficionados would be hard-pressed to find a better offering of the Bard’s works than Tina Packer‘s Women of Will now playing at Portland Playhouse. “Part [...]

Max (Samson Syharath) needs to pay the rent, and with no prospects in sight, he starts an Asian ghostbuster business with his brother Visarut (Lidet Viravong). “I’ll do the [...]

When Anna (Jen Rowe), an unmarried, first grade schoolteacher, is diagnosed with the fictitious Acquired Toilet Disease (ATD), presumably contracted from an elementary school toilet seat, what on [...]

Forty floors. Five hundred apartments. Seven hundred residents, give or take. All the amenities…. Somewhere in the bowels of this fancy, big city high-rise, in an inauspicious laundry room, [...]

An outstanding and gritty performance of Macbeth is now onstage at the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. The play is intriguing in that it has been edited down to a [...]

Walking into Broadway Rose Theatre to see Once (book by Edna Walsh), one is transformed to a Dublin street set. A  jolly bunch of musicians/actors play fiddles, guitars, and an accordion on stage [...]

The State of the State  September came and went in a flash as Portland-area theatres opened their new seasons and kept me busy attending plays and writing reviews. It brings a rush of pleasure [...]

“I live in a yogurt, my feelings don’t get hurt.” #46, The Wolves Nothing quite tells one about one’s culture like a pack of teenage girls–in this case, a wolfpack [...]