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 [...]
Wolf seeks pack….
Wolf Play begins with a most unsuitable premise. Peter (Chris Harder) and his wife have decided they no longer want their adopted son Wolf (Christopher Larkin). The kid is called Peter, by the [...]
A love song for Detroit
A dingy little break room in a failing Detroit automobile factory is the setting for Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau‘s play about Detroit’s working class now onstage at Artists [...]
Magellanica–8 1/2 months in the speaking darkness
I’ve never wanted to go to Antarctica. Too dark. Too cold. No good restaurants. But scientists love it. In the world premiere of E.M. Lewis’s Magellanica, six of them are falling all [...]
“For they had the hope of Peace….”
It’s a busy Christmas Eve, 1864, in Washington, D.C. In a contentious recent election, Abraham Lincoln has been re-elected President. A slave, Hannah (Andrea Whittle) and her daughter Jessa [...]
The Gun Show
Humor and gripping reality come to the stage for the final week at CoHo Productions with The Gun Show. Written by Ellen (E.M.) Lewis, and performed by Vin Shambry, this play is a show about [...]