Don’t miss The Color Purple at Portland Center Stage
The Color Purple opens with two little girls–Celie (Felicia Bosworth) and her younger sister Nettie (Danea C. Osseni)–giggling and playing a game. Flash to 14-year-old Celie holding a [...]
Ordinary Days–beauty and connection
Four New Yorkers in a city of eight million souls look just like any other four New Yorkers. Warren (Seth M. Renne) peddles pamphlets with upbeat sayings on a Manhattan street corner. Angry small [...]
September 2018 Newsletter
The State of the State Yesterday was spent on the sorting line of RR Winery. Pinot Noir grapes came in from our original vineyard on Ribbon Ridge–beautiful, plump clusters, sweeter than [...]
Roommates face off in hilarious Ripcord!
Abby Binder (Randi Douglas) is a grouch. And it’s no secret that she doesn’t want a roommate. Never has. When she is assigned one at the senior living facility where she resides, she [...]
Pippin–satire, music, dancing, fun!
Picture this: Eldest son graduates a good college in Padua, Italy, comes home briefly, and then decides to forsake his fortune and hit the road to find his own “extraordinary”. Sounds [...]
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 [...]