There’s a new theatre company in town, and it’s devoted entirely to Shakespeare. The Canon Shakespeare Company staged it’s first prouction just before the plague. After more [...]
“I consider myself an artist,” says Tim Finnegan (Tom O’Leary) early in Corrib Theatre‘s most recent production The Smuggler. He’s also an out-of-work bartender, a [...]
It’s not every day that a New York touring company can land in Portland and put on a show where the word Willamette is pronounced correctly. But the cast of Freestyle Love Supreme, the [...]
In 1952, two underemployed, not-so-very-good British Shakespearean actors travel the Moose Lodge circuit in rural Pennsylvania. Audiences are sparse, and Jack (Phillip J. Berns) and Leo (Sam [...]
Fuse Theatre Ensemble is back, and has found a new home in The Back Door Theater at 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (behind Common Grounds Coffeehouse). With a place to call home, the troupe has [...]
When Martha Washington (Melanie Moseley) appears bound and gagged with an apple, in her own kitchen, a mere few days after the death of her husband and our first President George Washington, [...]
Five old friends sit on a park bench enjoying the sunshine. Vera (JoAnn Johnson) wears fishnet stockings; Lillian (Jane Bement Geesman) sports sparkly wedges; Ursula (Elizabeth Elias Huffman) is [...]
As with most situations in United States society of the 1950s, meritocracy influenced every aspect of life, especially when it came to females. One was either a good girl and deserving of the [...]