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 [...]
Of witches and tomcats
Alice sleeps with a man she does not know. Her mother Joan owns an old cat, and curses when her neighbors are cruel to her. Betty does not want to marry. Susan doesn’t want to be pregnant. [...]
Mala-a meditation for the sandwich generation
Melinda Lopez‘s Mala, now onstage at CoHo Theatre, is a very difficult play for those of us at a certain age to watch. This 80-minute one-act details the life of Mala (Julana [...]
The power of the hat
When Brooklyn teen Yolanda (Kelli Bee) and her family suffer an unspeakable tragedy, she is shipped off to South Carolina to stay with her grandmother, Mother Shaw (Marilyn Keller), a strong, [...]
Between Riverside and Crazy–a New York state of mind
When I saw Stephen Adly Guirgis‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, it put me in a New York state of mind. Now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, the play does not [...]
26 Miles at Profile Theatre
When 15-year-old Olivia (Alex Ramirez de Cruz) storms out on her father Aaron (Chris Harder) and his wife Deborah, the only person she can turn to is her mother, Beatriz (Julana Torres). The two [...]