A frog, a rat, and a princess
In his brief 70 years on this planet, native Oregonian and creative icon Will Vinton left an indelible artistic stamp on Portland, and far beyond, with his animation, Claymation, and films. One [...]
A Scottish legend comes to the stage
Oh you’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Scotland before ye…. We all know at least some of the words to the traditional Scottish ballad [...]
An American love story
Families can be so full of surprises. Take Uncle Stevie (Tyrone Mitchell Henderson) for example. He loves hip-hop but can’t keep up in his dance class. He gets kicked out of his aerobics [...]
Crossing Mnisose–“bloodlines of the past”
Mary Kathryn Nagle‘s play Crossing Mnisose enjoyed its world premiere at Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Main Stage on Friday, April 19. Commissioned by PCS for its Northwest [...]
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 [...]
Chris Coleman talks about “Astoria”
As of January 20, 2017, Portland has huge a new play. It’s called Astoria Part I, and it came to stage during Portland’s recent Fertile Ground Festival, a 10-day event where dozens of [...]
D.B. Cooper – man of mystery
More than 45 years ago, on Thanksgiving weekend, a man with $200,000 in hijack ransom jumped out of a plane destined to Reno from Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport. Earlier that day, he’d [...]
The world premiere of a comedy in two episodes
Shortly after World War I, a Brit by the name of H.C. McNeile, under pen name Sapper, created Bulldog Drummond, a fictional WWI veteran turned gentleman adventurer who, bored by peace-time [...]