Small Mouth Sounds–A romp in the woods
“I have no plan,” announces the guru-like Teacher (Mary McDonald-Lewis) to a gathering of six disparate and mostly miserable souls in Bess Wohl‘s Small Mouth Sounds now running [...]
Magellanica–8 1/2 months in the speaking darkness
I’ve never wanted to go to Antarctica. Too dark. Too cold. No good restaurants. But scientists love it. In the world premiere of E.M. Lewis’s Magellanica, six of them are falling all [...]
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 [...]
An Octoroon – Melodrama in the Land of Cotton
It’s a modern (2014) play based on an old play (1859). It’s a madcap melodrama with a golden-haired hero and a lecherous villain. It’s a chilling statement on race. An Octoroon [...]
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville at Clackamas Repertory Theatre
Although I’ve always thought of the summer as a down time for live theatre in metropolitan Portland, there really is a lot going on. One special summer treat is the Clackamas Repertory [...]
July Newsletter
The state of the state For what it’s worth, my life has been in a state of high flux. Not the type of flux one likes talking about. So…the first of June, I quit my job of eight [...]
Kicked into the promised land
Young Omar (Michel Castillo) and Young Cindy (Madeleine Tran) are immigrants, brought to this country at an early age by their parents. They meet on the day they are sworn-in as citizens, and [...]
“For they had the hope of Peace….”
It’s a busy Christmas Eve, 1864, in Washington, D.C. In a contentious recent election, Abraham Lincoln has been re-elected President. A slave, Hannah (Andrea Whittle) and her daughter Jessa [...]