Mamma Mia! is one of the most fun musicals to ever grace a stage, so it only makes sense that Broadway Rose Theatre would include it as one of their productions in its 2018 Season of Irresistible Fun. It’s the ultimate feel-good musical, according to director Lyn Cramer. Much of its popularity has to do with […]
Aaron Stewart, ABBA, Alan D. Lytle, Allison Dawe, Andrew Maldarelli, Benny Anderson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Bryan Boyd, Catherine Johnson, Jalena Montrond, Joey Klei, Judy Cramer, Laura McCulloch, Lisamarie Harrison, Lyn Cramer, Mamma Mia, Matthew H. Curl, Peggy Taphorn, Shanise Jordan, Sophie Moshofsky, Stig AndersonAlways…Patsy Cline, created and originally directed by Ted Swindley, is a big favorite at Tigard’s Broadway Rose Theatre Company. As of last Friday night, this is the third time Broadway Rose has welcomed it to the stage–and the show is better than ever. This also is the third time Nashville artist Sara Catherine Wheatley has […]
Always...Patsy Cline, Barney Stein, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Chan Harris, country music, country music star, Louise Seger, Patsy Cline, Sara Catherine Wheatley, Shana Targosz, Sharon Maroney, Ted SwindleyBroadway Rose Theatre Company kicked off its 27th season with Murder for Two, a riotously manic vaudevillian farce featuring Barney Stein and David Saffert. In this Agatha Christie-esque musical comedy, Saffert plays the 10 suspects who were guests at the famous novelist Arthur Whitney’s birthday party when Arthur was shot dead. Arthur, it appears, had the dirt […]
Barney Stein, Broadway Rose New Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Dan Murphy, David Saffert, Jeffrey Childs, Joe Kinosian, Kellen Blair, Liberace, Liberace tribute artist, Murder for Two, murder mystery, musical comedy, Season of Irresitible Fun, vaudvillian farceThinking back today about what a wonderful time I had reviewing plays in 2017, it occurred to me that a round-up of my favorites might be a good thing to do. So, without further fussing around, here it is: Astoria Part I, by Chris Coleman, ran last January at Portland Center Stage. Adapted from Peter […]
Alison Bechdel, An Octoroon, Andrew Lippa, Artists Repertory Theatre, Astoria Part 1, Astoria Part 2, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire, best plays 2017, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Chris Coleman, Ellen Margolis, Fun Home, His Eye Was On The Sparrow, Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Luis Alfaro, Marshall Brickman, Michael Mendelson, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Oscar Wilde, Pericles Wet, Peter Stark, Portland Center Stage, Portland Shakespeare Project, Portland theatre, Rick Elice, The Addams Family, The Importance of Being ErnestThe music’s the thing in Your Holiday Hit Parade, Broadway Rose Theatre’s holiday show that opened Friday November 24 at its New Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Avenue, Tigard. When two teachers from the Midwest become stranded on an isolated, snowy road, they stumble upon the old Aurora’s Borealis Hotel, where they decide to get out of […]
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