“Life’s distressing mysteries”
What happens when Sherlock Holmes’s muse goes mute because of the pandemic? What is Dr. Joan Watson, who arrives forlorn and depressed at 221 Baker Street in search of temporary lodgings, [...]
“Three wayward sisters” do The Scottish Play
An outstanding and gritty performance of Macbeth is now onstage at the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. The play is intriguing in that it has been edited down to a [...]
Our souls at night
Portlanders know exactly where they are when they first see Megan Wilkerson’s set for Tiny Beautiful Things at Portland Center Stage. It’s a big old Craftsman bungalow in Northeast [...]
Walking through A Life
Adam Bock’s A Life is a play about Nate Martin (Nat DeWolf), a gay man of a certain age. Directed by Rose Riordan, the play was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, workshopped at the [...]
A different me, a different you–Constellations at Portland Center Stage
It’s a different sort of romance. It’s a different set of circumstances. It’s Nick Payne’s 2012 play Constellations, exactingly directed by Chris Coleman, now at Portland [...]
D.B. Cooper – man of mystery
More than 45 years ago, on Thanksgiving weekend, a man with $200,000 in hijack ransom jumped out of a plane destined to Reno from Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport. Earlier that day, he’d [...]