A virus plagues the country, in Alan Browne’s play Beirut, produced by Beirut in PDX, LLC. It spreads through the exchange of bodily fluids, and there is no cure. So the government has [...]
Summer season is here! And for Broadway Rose Theatre Company, that means BIG musicals. But this year, with Broadway Rose’s summer venue under construction, the big musicals are being staged [...]
Just when you’re one headline away from throwing in the towel, a beautiful new comedy hits the Main Stage at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. Karen Zacarias‘s Native Gardens is [...]
There is a reason journalists use “man on the street” interviews. It is because they work so well. They grab the audience as nothing else can. When the microphone is placed in front [...]
What does the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s have two do with two women on the Isle of Wight forty years later? Quite a bit, actually. When Frances Beale (Julia Brothers) comes [...]
“My mother is a fantastically energetic person trapped in an utterly exhausted body,” says Lisa (Allison Mickelson) near the beginning of Lisa Kron‘s play Well (which in [...]
In playwright Eve Johnstone‘s retelling of the old English poem Beowulf, Fire and Meat, the monster Grendel is the main character, and the hero’s journey is hers to tell. The new [...]
It’s an odd collection of characters assembled on the Artists Repertory Theatre stage in Lauren Gunderson‘s The Revolutionists. They include the French feminist, activist, and artist [...]
Lakewood Theatre Company ends its 66th season in on a high note with the popular romantic-comedy musical Singin’ In The Rain. The musical, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music [...]
Mary Kathryn Nagle‘s play Crossing Mnisose enjoyed its world premiere at Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Main Stage on Friday, April 19. Commissioned by PCS for its Northwest [...]
