Breaths of lives revealed
What does the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s have two do with two women on the Isle of Wight forty years later? Quite a bit, actually. When Frances Beale (Julia Brothers) comes [...]
Buyer & Cellar is full of laughs and titillating gossip!
It’s tough to be an underemployed gay actor in Los Angeles. One day you’re the mayor of Disneyland’s Toon Town, the next you’re hiding your junkheap of a car behind the [...]
Beautiful things at Portland Center Stage
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 [...]
November 2018 Newsletter
The 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 [...]
Walking through A Life
Adam 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 [...]
Kodachrome–a play about Love
Love 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 [...]