A POWER-ful walk through North Portland
The young always inherit the revolution. –Huey Newton In another time, in a historic North Portland neighborhood, a revolution was taking place. It began with young Black men in the [...]
September 2020 Newsletter
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in –Leonard Cohen Get [...]
November 2019 Newsletter
The State of the State It was a busy month for being Out There instead of In Here. I gave three presentations to various groups on “Setting as a Character”, wrote eight play reviews, [...]
Tales from another era
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II‘s much-loved musical South Pacific opened at Clackamas Repertory Theatre last weekend. Directed by Jayne Stevens and Wesley Robert Hanson, the show [...]
An American hero
Gordon Hirabayashi was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama in May of 2012, just months after his death. [...]
A remarkable life
Grammy-nominated artist Mona Golabek will return to Portland Center Stage at The Armory for a limited engagement of The Pianist of Willesden Lane, adapted and directed by Hershey Felder and based [...]