Okay, call me a sucker. I’m a sucker for Christmas stories. Not the ones we see on the Hallmark channel, but real Christmas stories–like that poor couple who travel to Bethlehem to pay their taxes and end up crashing in a stable, and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in its many iterations. Portland Playhouse has presented A Christmas Carol […]
A Christmas Carol, Abigail St. John, Alanna Fagan, Alex Nowak, Anna Lackaff, Ben Tissell, Brian Weaver, Charles Dickens, Charles Leggett, Chiara Rothenberg, Cycerli Ash, Dan Tracy, Delphon Curtis Jr., Eva Hudson Leoniak, Ja'mihay Moore-Smith, Jessica Bobillot, John Ellingson, Laila Murphy, Maeve Z. O'Connor, Margot Weaver, Matthew Capurro, Netty McKenzie, Paul Harestad, Portland Playhouse, Rachel Lewis, Rick Lombardo, Serelle Strickland, Solomon Weisbard, Victor Wells, Victoria L, Zia Murphy“Is it now?” Guy (Michael O’Connell) asks. He is sprawled, half-dressed, in front of a wheelchair in a room that is empty save for some large boxes at the side of the stage. “I thought I had more time.” Lights out. The next time we see Guy, he is dressed and in the wheelchair, looking […]
death, Everyman, existentialism, Gretchen Corbett, grief, meditation, Michael O'Connell, monologue, Nikki Weaver, philosophy, Portland Playhouse, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Wakey Wakey, Willl EnoAfter 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 written by Portlander Michelle Horgan, and this is the first staged run of this new work, which is a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 classic The […]
"ranney", Brian Weaver, Darius Pierce, drama, feminist play, Isaac Lamb, Jessica Wallenfels, Michelle Horgan, musical, Nathaniel Hawthorne, original music and lyrics, Portland Playhouse, Portland playwright, Puritans, Rainbows, Rebecca Teran, repressive societies, romance, Scarlet, strong women characters, Susannah Mars, The Scarlet Letter