French royalty, forbidden passion
Queen Marie-Therese (Crystal Ann Munoz) is having a difficult time in the French court. She was hauled from Spain to marry King Louis XIV (Chris Murray). Deemed the ugliest member of the court, [...]
Mlima’s Tale – powerful and moving
Mlima is one of the treasured “big tuskers” elephants in a Kenyan wild animal preserve. Protected by the government, he roams freely for the 50-plus years of his life until he is [...]
Mark your calendars for upcoming local theatrical events
As the Season of the Un-Season launches, Portland-area theatres are coming online with exciting new offerings–enough that I expect to be kept busy with all the goings-on! Mark your [...]
The undoing of America 2000-2008
It didn’t take much. Some loose footing here, a push there. And then, in 2008, everything we’d been working toward since the end of World War II was gone. Many were caught off-guard, [...]
Profile Theatre explores the Lynn Nottage/Bertolt Brecht connection
Tonight through Sunday, December 7, Profile Theatre presents concert stagings of two plays in rotating repertory. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined set in the Democratic Republic [...]