Portland Playhouse’s A Christmas Carol
Okay, call me a sucker. I’m a sucker for Christmas stories. Not the ones we see on the Hallmark channel, but real Christmas stories–like that poor couple who travel to Bethlehem to [...]
The night the orphans unionized
A funny thing happened at Portland Center Stage the other night. Dorothy and Toto and Little Orphan Annie showed up onstage in a show about Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Carol. How are [...]
Dickens gets twisted at Portland Center Stage
The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens is back in town and playing on the Main Stage at Portland Center Stage through December 31. The play has become a favorite with [...]
A Christmas Carol brightens the season
What would the season be without A Christmas Carol? The transformative power of this simple novella by Charles Dickens cannot be denied. And for years, Portland Playhouse has carried the torch, [...]
A Dickens of a play!
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (Subtitle: Lucinda Stroud murders it!) is alive and well, and onstage at Portland Center Stage’s main stage through February 14. The novel was [...]
Book Slut Weekend
TUCSON, AZ.–Not all that often does One submit an away-from-home blog, but that’s what One is doing today. My sister Janet, her significant other, and I spent the day recovering from [...]