Ordinary Days–beauty and connection
Four New Yorkers in a city of eight million souls look just like any other four New Yorkers. Warren (Seth M. Renne) peddles pamphlets with upbeat sayings on a Manhattan street corner. Angry small [...]
Pippin–satire, music, dancing, fun!
Picture this: Eldest son graduates a good college in Padua, Italy, comes home briefly, and then decides to forsake his fortune and hit the road to find his own “extraordinary”. Sounds [...]
Scarlet–glimpses of grace
After a long absence from its normal venue at 602 NE Prescott, Portland Playhouse returns to newly renovated headquarters with the exciting new musical, Scarlet. The book, music, and lyrics are [...]
Trails opens at Broadway Rose
Three children–the “Queen Captain” Amy (Rachel Lewis) and her subjects Seth (Joel Walker) and Mike (Michael Morrow Hammack)–are thrown together in an earlier time, and [...]
A romp through the Gospels
Godspell, now playing at Lakewood Theatre Company, and directed by Michael Snider, is not a production original for its storytelling. It is, however, graced with a company of talented singers and [...]
I sing because I’m happy
An aging Ethel Waters (Maiesha McQueen) sits in her living room, afghan draped across her knees, one delicate hand resting in her lap and the other on her Bible. She wears a cotton house dress [...]
The secret’s in the stars
“The map of this story is both tiny and vast. And it is as simple and complex as choosing a path to travel and trusting it will connect to all other paths,” the philosophizing Narrator (Joe [...]
A lament on Congress
What we are going through these days is nothing new. In this country it has been happening for at least 240 years, as anyone who attends Lakewood Theatre’s production of 1776 will learn [...]