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 [...]
Lost, like library books…
“How do people become vershollen, lost, like library books?’ Artists Repertory Theatre has just released its latest audio drama, The Berlin Diaries by Portland playwright Andrea [...]
Lost, like library books…
“How do people become vershollen, lost, like library books?’ Artists Repertory Theatre has just released its latest audio drama, The Berlin Diaries by Portland playwright Andrea [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Summer theatre breaks
As an abrupt departure from my usual theatre review, I offer up the following inexpensive and free theatrical performances, confident that you will find something to enjoy here! Every July, [...]
Curators of lives
There is a reason journalists use “man on the street” interviews. It is because they work so well. They grab the audience as nothing else can. When the microphone is placed in front [...]
Mothers, daughters, and universal issues
“My mother is a fantastically energetic person trapped in an utterly exhausted body,” says Lisa (Allison Mickelson) near the beginning of Lisa Kron‘s play Well (which in [...]