Two small gems grace the stage of Portland Center Stage’s Ellyn Bye Studio now through December 30. One is a vintage Christmas classic by Truman Capote; the second is a new production that is to Portland and of Portland. I would walk miles to see and hear Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. Once I hear […]
A Christmas Memory, Brandon Wooley, Ellyn Bye Studio, Leif Norby, Meredith Kaye Clark, Mont Chris Hubbard, Portland Center Stage, Truman CapoteThe state of the state Once again, it is past mid-month and I find myself wondering how on earth this happened. The month began with several days spent in the bowels of the Multnomah County Elections Office doing the very necessary and unglamorous business of preparing ballots to be run through counting machines. Democracy isn’t […]
A Christmas Memory, Andy Ginsberg, Blackthorn, Brandon Wooley, Coen Brothers, Dave Collier, democracy, Ellyn Bye Studio, gothic novel, house concerts, Inside Llewyn Davis, Leif Norby, live music, marketing, Meredith Kaye Clark, Multnomah County Elections, murder mystery, mystery novel, original music, Portland Center Stage, singers/songwriters, Sit Back and Relax, Steve Greenwood, The Barn, Tina Izen, Truman Capote, Winter SongAdam Bock’s A Life is a play about Nate Martin (Nat DeWolf), a gay man of a certain age. Directed by Rose Riordan, the play was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, workshopped at the 2014 JAW festival in Portland, and is now onstage in the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. This […]
A Life, acute clinical depression, Adam Bock, Astrology, coroners, Dana Green, death, depression, Ellyn Bye Studio, Gary Norman Cycerli Ash, Gay men, homophobia, JAW Festival, middle-age gay men, mortuary, Nat DeWolf, Portland Center Stage, Rose Riordan, West Coast PremiereLove is so darned complicated. He loves her…she thinks he’s boring. She loves him…he loves someone else. They love each other…and then they don’t. A sweet and tender story about the many facets of love made it’s world premiere at Portland Center Stage’s Ellyn Bye Studio last week. Adam Szymkowicz’s Kodachrome digs into love’s many incarnations […]
Adam Szymkowicz, Brandon Woolley, Daniel Meeker, drama, Ellyn Bye Studio, John D. Haggerty, Kelly Godell, Kodachrome, Lena Kaminsky, love stories, Our Town, Portland Center Stage, Rose Riordan, Ryan Tresser, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Sharonlee McLean, small town setting, Thornton Wilder, Tina Chilip