January 2020 Newsletter
Ghosts of Christmas Past December was its usual pain in the rear, but aside from that annoyance my sacred inner curmudgeon managed to fully enjoy one very fine concert, a day baking cookies, two [...]
The Miracle Worker graces Twilight Theater stage
William Gibson‘s timeless American classic The Miracle Worker is now onstage at the Twilight Theater Company in North Portland. It is based on Gibson’s 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of [...]
Not your usual dinner theatre–The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
We’re in a pub. A Scottish pub. Here’s your food. The bar is over there. Big, round tables. Gobs of jolly people. Fine, energizing, Scottish music provided by Katie Jane Lubiens and [...]
A rollicking Regency rom-com (with pianoforte)
It is approaching Christmas, 1815, and Elizbeth Darcy (Cindy Im), nee Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice fame, has introduced a Chrismas tree into the hallowed halls of [...]
Profile Theatre explores the Lynn Nottage/Bertolt Brecht connection
Tonight through Sunday, December 7, Profile Theatre presents concert stagings of two plays in rotating repertory. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined set in the Democratic Republic [...]
An 1885 Christmas mystery
Strange happenings are afoot at Glancing Bright, a stately Victorian country house, home of Lady Constance Ashford (Rebecca Morse), a distressed and nearly helpless widow. Thankfully, there is [...]
Night time in the department store
Broadway Rose Theatre Company has kicked off the holiday season with its original musical It Happened One Christmas. Written, directed, and choreographed by Broadway Rose Managing Director Dan [...]