Friendship? Chosen family? How about LOVE?
“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 [...]
‘We invite our histories to live with us’
I got a long memory. People say you crazy to remember. But I ain’t afraid to remember. I try to remember out loud. I keep my memories alive. I feed them. I got to feed them otherwise they’d eat [...]
HEDWIG RETURNS!
Hansel Schmidt, that “slip of a girlyboy from communist East Berlin”, has made a triumphant return to Portland. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen [...]
Christopher the detective
Christopher (Jamie Sanders) lives in the mysterious world of autism. His movements are robotic, he hates being touched, he loves math and physics, he struggles to communicate verbally, and he [...]
A weekend (and more) of theatrical events
Throughout the last 10 months, Portland-area live theatre has struggled as much or more than any other segment of our economy. And yet, as a body and singly, theatres carry on, stretching their [...]
Christopher the detective
Christopher (Jamie Sanders) lives in the mysterious world of autism. His movements are robotic, he hates being touched, he loves math, he struggles to communicate verbally, and he loves animals. [...]
A gender of one
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask‘s (music and lyrics) drag show cum Broadway musical, is now onstage in the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center [...]
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 [...]