DramaWatch: Desire and Fertile Ground
Eleanor O’Brien talks about how the new-works festival has sparked her sex-positive shows. Plus the festival’s Week 2 and the “Anastasia” tour.
Eleanor O’Brien talks about how the new-works festival has sparked her sex-positive shows. Plus the festival’s Week 2 and the “Anastasia” tour.
Portland plunges into its festival of new works, and “other” theater from “Gatsby” to “Gloria” lights the lights.
Playwright Lauren Yee returns to Oregon stages with a Center Stage/Artists Rep collaboration; “Thurgood” and “Hedwig” get ready to roll.
How to keep yourself and others safe in the theater (we’re in this thing together!). Plus an Agatha Christie, Profile’s “Gloria,” Milagro on Lorca.
The multiple Tony-winning musical, in Portland through Sunday, is ‘a small wonder.’ Plus: Poirot at Lakewood, CoHo walks with fire, Fuse postpones.
Are you ready? A trio of productions each brings its own take (and a little music) to the classic Dickens holiday tale.
Sure, there’s plenty of Dickens in December. But on Oregon stages, it’s Conor McPherson season, too.
Remembering Philip Cuomo, Stephen Sondheim, and Dave Frishberg. Plus: A “Curious” reopening, Christmas Carols everywhere.
DramaWatch Weekly: The beloved actor, director, and leader of CoHo Productions died Saturday after a battle with lymphoma.
Portland’s LGBTQ theater ensemble gets a new home, a new season, and a new way of thinking about how it does business.
This week at the theater: Chewing over the issues in Portland Playhouse’s prism on race and language; “Mean Girls” and 600 Highwaymen hit town; last chances & more.
Imago’s Jerry Mouawad talks about the Covid-era fear factor in Conor McPherson’s tense and anxious stage version of “The Birds.” Plus: Stage openings & closings.
Themes echo and recur in Portland Playhouse’s “Barbecue,” Artists Rep’s “The Chinese Lady,” and “The Weir” in Astoria.
In Celine Song’s play about a tight-knit clan of half-siblings, hell is other people, and they seem to be all in the family.
Also in a busy week: A “Barbecue” at Portland Playhouse, “The Chinese Lady” at Artists Rep, a “Peep” from The Reformers and a “Lonely Vampire” from Imago, “Danse Macabre” returns, plus plays onscreen.
Vanessa Severo talks about “becoming” the famed Mexican artist; Martha Washington bakes again.
As the stage world begins to bustle, Marty Hughley rides herd on the scene, from Shakespeare to Bojangles.
Out of the Covid crisis rises the captivating specter of François Villon, a wild 15th century poet for our times.
Covid clipped the new company’s wings as it was taking flight. Now it’s back, with a set of six filmed shows.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival meets the times with a hybrid season of new and old: video now, maybe onstage later.
Fertile Ground 2021: Sue Mach’s “Madonna of the Cat” fills in the 16-year gap in Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale.”
In his final days, designer and artist Tim Stapleton hosted a free flow of friends. Now, his final artwork is on view.
The well-loved Portland designer, writer, visual artist, and actor dies from the effects of ALS.
Unit Souzou live-streams with “The Constant State of Otherness.” Plus: what isn’t happening in theater.
“The show must go on…unless it shouldn’t.” What’s up and what’s off in theater amid COVID-19.
From “Hair” to “Hedwig,” a broad range of stories populates Portland Center Stage’s 2020-’21 season.
As a new season begins, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s new leader talks about expanding a legacy of inclusion.
Ashland opens its 85th anniversary season; new shows across Portland, the dark side of “West Side Story.”
Darius Pierce nails it in a riveting play for Corrib Theatre. Plus: new awards, hires, seasons, and shows.
Two women, in love — kissing even! “Indecent,” “Pipeline,” measuring “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
“She’s crazy. Always has been. Always will be.” Imago’s “Special K” drinks deep of theatrical madness.
Clown CoHort cavorts through Romanticism’s fertile ground; openings & closings dot the theater calendar.
Fresh voices, surprising ideas emerge at Fertile Ground – and the theater week stays busy elsewhere, too.
Christopher Acebo stages Lynn Nottage’s timely look at labor for Profile. Plus, a burst of new shows.
The week in theater offers more Christmas shows than you can shake a candy cane at!
“Melancholy Play” is a whimsical reminder that sometimes you feel like a nut. Plus: holiday treats and Portland theater Christmas stuffing.
The week in theater features OSF actors with the Oregon Symphony, sketch comedy, social commentary, and other experiments.
Some thoughts on theater etiquette, on ideas about race and cultural preference, and on what shows to see this week in Portland.
Romance, race, genealogy clash in “Redwood” at Portland Center Stage; weekly tips on Portland theater.
Reflections on the end of Bill Rauch’s tenure at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; plus the week in Portland theater.
“Women of Will,” a season-highlight at Portland Playhouse, charts Shakespeare’s growth through his female characters.
A fresh look at “A View From the Bridge” highlights a busy theater week, along with musicals, Greek epics and scary Halloween treats.
Tragedy strikes Center Stage (that’s a good thing), Broadway Rose sells out, Shaking the Tree goes Greek.
“The Wolves” highlights a theater week that also includes the Mueller Report on stage and a Vertigo dark comedy.
Corrib looks at a “medieval” Irish scandal; Triangle makes a Darcelle musical; a pirate for the kids.
In her new book, Susan Banyas takes a kaleidoscopic look back at a landmark school desegregation case.
Portland’s theater week: the dystopia of “1984,” Fake Radio recreating the ’40s, Shakespeare in the house.
“Queens Girl” draws us in and charms us, then brings us on a journey of surprising scope, depth and, yes, universality.
The fall theater season kicks into gear with musical panache at PCS, dystopia at Artists Rep, and much more.
Ex-“Live Wire” star Sean McGrath puts some sketch in his comedy. Plus “Hair” and other openings.
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