Damon Runyon was one of those hard-living, gritty newspaper reporters of the 1920s and ’30s who liked to get his hands dirty. As a short story writer, he fictionalized some of the colorful [...]
Summer is the best time of year for Broadway Rose Theatre. For during the summer, the company moves its productions from its New Theatre in west Tigard, to the Deb Fennell Auditorium at Tigard [...]
One of the most brilliant, and certainly funniest, plays in the English language has invaded the stage at Artists Repertory Theatre! The Importance of Being Earnest, written by Oscar Wilde [...]
Amid the countless lives begun in struggle, beset with tragedy, poverty, and insecurity, most of us–in this country, at least–survive. Some of us rise to the top. And a few live lives [...]
I looked at the wedding band on my left hand, fourth finger, and began [writing Mothers and Sons]. I thought about the young man who had come to New York to be the gay man he knew he already was. [...]
Those who attend Artist Repertory Theatre’s season opener, The Understudy, will find themselves privy to the most misbegotten rehearsal in the history of theatre. This is no exaggeration. [...]
There are two small town cops and a pyramid of donuts. There’s an oversexed and under-loved accountant who keeps removing her clothing. There’s an embezzling mayor. There are two [...]