Modern times
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future before their very eyes. —Greta Thunberg at the 2018 UN Climate Conference Hazel (Linda Alper) makes [...]
1984 – ‘It’s not easy to become sane’
Winston Smith (Chris Harder) sits alone in a room rewriting Party history, deleting characters from tomes at the Ministry of Truth as they are disgraced or executed. The year is 1984. Everywhere [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nora isn’t dead-A Doll’s House, Part 2
Nora Helmer is dead. Long live Nora Helmer. In Lucas Hnath‘s A Doll’s House, Part 2 now playing at Artists Repertory Theatre, Nora Helmer (Linda Alper) most assuredly is not dead. [...]
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep (Shakespeare)
As characters go, few, if any, are more inscrutable and obnoxious than the 13-year-old girl. Thus, it is difficult at first to sympathize with Chris (Agatha Day Olson) in Artists Repertory [...]