Reviews

What we are going through these days is nothing new. In this country it has been happening for at least 240 years, as anyone who attends Lakewood Theatre’s production of 1776 will learn [...]

Every summer, Lakewood Theatre stages a special extra production as its season opener and as a gift to its season ticket holders. This year’s show is the Portland area premiere of a [...]

What a heady thing it must have been to be a young man in this country in 1946. For most of those who survived World War II, it must have felt like the world was their oyster. They had survived [...]

Heidi Schreck’s new play Grand Concourse enjoyed its West Coast premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre last Saturday. The title refers to an area formerly known as Grand at Concourse in the [...]

The Man of La Mancha opens in a dreary underground prison sometime during the Spanish Inquisition. The inmates comprise a rough-looking collection, mostly men, mostly hostile. Enter Miguel de [...]

Lewis (Victor Mack) is having a terrible night. A sleepless night. As Tanya Barfield’s signature play, Blue Door, opens on the Profile Theatre stage, Lewis pops up from bed and begins [...]

Dear Sarah… What a lovely leitmotif for a play about genocide. It humanizes the perpetrators, which is OK I suppose. They are, after all, human. Young, for the most part, somewhat naïve, [...]

Shortly after World War I, a Brit by the name of H.C. McNeile, under pen name Sapper, created Bulldog Drummond, a fictional WWI veteran turned gentleman adventurer who, bored by peace-time [...]