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 [...]
Buyer & Cellar is full of laughs and titillating gossip!
It’s tough to be an underemployed gay actor in Los Angeles. One day you’re the mayor of Disneyland’s Toon Town, the next you’re hiding your junkheap of a car behind the [...]
Walking through A Life
Adam Bock’s A Life is a play about Nate Martin (Nat DeWolf), a gay man of a certain age. Directed by Rose Riordan, the play was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, workshopped at the [...]
Kodachrome–a play about Love
Love is so darned complicated. He loves her…she thinks he’s boring. She loves him…he loves someone else. They love each other…and then they don’t. A sweet and [...]
Every Brilliant Thing at Portland Center Stage
Isaac Lamb has his work cut out for him. He’s the Performer in Every Brilliant Thing (by Duncan Macmillan with Johnny Donahoe), a play about suicidal depression that manages to be at once [...]
Two world premieres and one stage
It is a more than ambitious undertaking to launch two world-premiere plays in one weekend, on the same stage no less, but Portland Center Stage pulled it off. They couldn’t be more [...]
The long, hard trail
Now Jane (Sarah Baskin) is 14. She smells bad, and she has a crush on Billy (Chris Murray). She wears a black hoodie and is chewing on the strings while she entertains us with great adolescent [...]
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Hot off the wire: “Chris Durang’s play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is the most produced play in the country today,” according to the folks on NPR’s Here & Now, [...]