Given the rampant loneliness in our culture, it only made sense that Norma (Beth Thompson) would become a professional cuddler. When he gets lonely, Norm (Tom Mounsey) likes to dance in his [...]
Sometimes, on the way to reclaim oneself, it is necessary to unload. So, on the brink of his 2002 testimony in the Irish courts, where he charges Ireland with willful blindness, deafness and [...]
Middle schools and high schools are notorious for their sub-cultures of nasty, mean girls. This phenomenon is not unique to the United States, as we learn in Jocelyn Bioh‘s breakout hit [...]
Peggy Ingram (Ruth Jenkins) is dead. As her sister, Sissy Hickey (Ravyn Jazper-Hawke) tells it, this upstanding member of the community died in disgrace when she tripped over the wooden legs of [...]
Many years ago, the king and queen of a distant planet worried about their infant son. The planet was at war, and to ensure his survival they sent him far away…to Farmsville, USA, where he [...]
The Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Works directed by Nicole Lane kicks off its 11th annual festival next week beginning on Thursday, January 30 and continuing through [...]
It didn’t take much. Some loose footing here, a push there. And then, in 2008, everything we’d been working toward since the end of World War II was gone. Many were caught off-guard, [...]
Portland is blessed with so many fine small theatre companies. Theatre Vertigo is just one of those that offers quirky low-budget productions that surprise and delight. Sometimes all it takes is [...]
For Susan Hendrix (Taylor Jean Grady), a young World War II bride living with her husband Sam (Daniel Zubrinsky) in 1944 Greenwich Village, the world is always dark. Blinded in an accident, Susan [...]
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask‘s (music and lyrics) drag show cum Broadway musical, is now onstage in the Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center [...]
