What does everybody fear most? Why, death, of course. Women may fear childbirth. There is something near-death-like about it. But death? Death happens to everybody. Which is why some may find Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘s play Everybody a bit disquieting. Everybody, now playing at Artists Repertory Theatre, is a play about death. The play opens with the Usher (Sarah Lucht). […]
allegory and myth, Andrea Vernae, Artists Repertory Theatre, Barbie Wu, Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Damaso Rodriguez, drama, dramatic play, Everybody, Everyman, Jessica Wallenfels, Kristeen Willis Crosser, Michael Mendelson, morality play, Phil Johnson, Robert Amico, Sara Hennessy, Sarah Lucht, Tim StapletonHe that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. –Proverbs 11:29 Since the 2016 election, theatres in the greater Portland area have stepped up to the task of asking their audiences to examine their beliefs, prejudices, and world views through the live performance […]
Allen Nause, Antonio Sonera, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, courtroom drama, David Sikking, dramatic play, human evolution, Ian Goodrich, Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence, Jim Vadala, Lakewood Theatre Company, Olivia Weiss, Robert E. Lee, Sarah Andrews, Scopes Monkey Trial, Todd Van Voris, William Jennings BryanIt was Leo Tolstoy who said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Since the financial meltdown of 2008, the United States has gained a great many more unhappy families–a fact not lost on contemporary playwright Stephen Karam, whose Pulitzer Prize Finalist play The Humans is now onstage at Artists […]
2016 Tony Award Best Play, 21st Century American experience, Artists Repertory Theatre, Damaso Rodriguez, dramatic play, John San Nicolas, Luisa Sermol, Obie Award, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Quinlan Fitzgerald, regional premiere, Robert Pescovitz, Stephen Karam, Thanksgiving, The Humans, Val Landrum, Vana O'Brien, working class milieu