Aspiring author + reticent rich man = a fun musical!
A lonely orphan, a mysterious benefactor, a nine-point plan. Broadway Rose Theatre Company is now streaming its onstage production of the two-person musical Daddy Long Legs. The program is [...]
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 [...]
September theatre events
We’re into month seven of this thing. Ugh. Who woulda thought, right? That hasn’t slowed down Portland area creatives. The theatre scene is bursting at the seams with great ideas to [...]
There’s a new superhero in town!
Many years ago, the king and queen of a distant planet worried about their infant son. The planet was at war, and to ensure his survival they sent him far away…to Farmsville, USA, where he [...]
The persistent fun of Footloose!
Disco, line dancing, country and western, and a whole lotta teenage angst converge on the stage of Broadway Rose Theatre Company‘s New Stage for its second big musical of the season, [...]
When wishes come true
Summer season is here! And for Broadway Rose Theatre Company, that means BIG musicals. But this year, with Broadway Rose’s summer venue under construction, the big musicals are being staged [...]
Oklahoma! through The Sound of Music
From Oklahoma! in 1943 to The Sound of Music in 1959, the musical theatre collaborations of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were legendary–on Broadway, in films, and on television. [...]
Nunsense–a rollicking good time!
Thanks to Julia, Child of God, chef at the Little Sisters of Hoboken Convent, 52 holy sisters have expired. There was a small problem with the vichyssoise, and the resulting 48 funerals have [...]