Crossing Mnisose–“bloodlines of the past”
Mary Kathryn Nagle‘s play Crossing Mnisose enjoyed its world premiere at Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Main Stage on Friday, April 19. Commissioned by PCS for its Northwest [...]
The faces of Ferguson
The first thing audience members need to know before attending Until the Flood at Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Ellyn Bye Studio is that playwright Dael Orlandersmith is a tour de [...]
The Marriage Plot revisited
Last summer, Clackamas Repertory Theatre mounted a fabulous production of Kate Hamill’s Sense & Sensibility, adapted from the Jane Austen novel of the same name. Portland Center Stage brings [...]
Everybody Dies
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 [...]
Inherit the Wind questions beliefs and prejudices
He 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 [...]
21st Century lives–The Humans at Artists Repertory Theatre
It 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 [...]