Sonya (Sara Hennessy) and Kate fall in love on a stage in Ireland under a ridiculous chandelier where Sonya is rehearsing her part in a play about Russians. “Her eyes are like the [...]
From Oklahoma! in 1943 to The Sound of Music in 1959, the musical theatre collaborations of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were legendary–on Broadway, in films, and on television. [...]
The first thing audience members need to know before attending Until the Flood at Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Ellyn Bye Studio is that playwright Dael Orlandersmith is a tour de [...]
When Brooklyn teen Yolanda (Kelli Bee) and her family suffer an unspeakable tragedy, she is shipped off to South Carolina to stay with her grandmother, Mother Shaw (Marilyn Keller), a strong, [...]
Wolf Play begins with a most unsuitable premise. Peter (Chris Harder) and his wife have decided they no longer want their adopted son Wolf (Christopher Larkin). The kid is called Peter, by the [...]
It is a dark and stormy night when Tristram (Spencer Conway) arrives at a rickety three-story home called The Pines in the British countryside to assist his firm’s client, Roland (Jeremy [...]
Portlanders know exactly where they are when they first see Megan Wilkerson’s set for Tiny Beautiful Things at Portland Center Stage. It’s a big old Craftsman bungalow in Northeast [...]
Nora Helmer is dead. Long live Nora Helmer. In Lucas Hnath‘s A Doll’s House, Part 2 now playing at Artists Repertory Theatre, Nora Helmer (Linda Alper) most assuredly is not dead. [...]
Jane (Alexandria Casteele) is a beautiful young woman with nut-brown hair and the rosy cheeks of an Irish farm girl. She radiates goodness. She is home from college, but not just for the weekend. [...]
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 [...]
