It’s been 70 years since the ghost of Elvira Condomine first wandered the Lakewood Theatre Company stage. In fact, it is because one of Sir Noel Coward‘s most popular plays, Blithe [...]
Tick, Tick…BOOM! Jon’s (Jesse Weil) clock is ticking toward his 30th birthday. In Tom Wolfe’s book The Pump House Gang, 30 is the age above which people become untrustworthy. [...]
E.M. Lewis‘s play Song of Extinction opens with a guy messing with a slide projector, and a teenager playing a violin. Then the action moves to a classroom where biology teacher Khim Phan [...]
In his brief 70 years on this planet, native Oregonian and creative icon Will Vinton left an indelible artistic stamp on Portland, and far beyond, with his animation, Claymation, and films. One [...]
Ah, the troubles that bedevil 6-year-olds–learning to fly a kite, playing baseball, falling love with a little red-headed girl. We may laugh, but these are just a few of the issues [...]
My friends, we’ve got trouble! Right here in River City! Third Rail Repertory Theatre has returned to live performances for the first time since the pandemic with Meredith Willson‘s [...]
The young always inherit the revolution. –Huey Newton In another time, in a historic North Portland neighborhood, a revolution was taking place. It began with young Black men in the [...]
“Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS….” –Jonathan Larson It’s Christmas Eve, 1989, in a garret in the East Village. Roger [...]
