DramaWatch Weekly: Deaths in the family
Marty Hughley
December 2, 2021
Remembering Philip Cuomo, Stephen Sondheim, and Dave Frishberg. Plus: A “Curious” reopening, Christmas Carols everywhere.
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.
The star of the rapid-fire one-man show coming Nov. 14 to Portland’s Newmark Theatre talks in an ArtsWatch Q&A about the method behind his miraculous madness.
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.
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
José González and Dañel Malán lead the resurgence of the Northwest’s only Latinx theater company.
Vanessa Severo talks about “becoming” the famed Mexican artist; Martha Washington bakes again.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
As the stage world begins to bustle, Marty Hughley rides herd on the scene, from Shakespeare to Bojangles.
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
Out of the Covid crisis rises the captivating specter of François Villon, a wild 15th century poet for our times.
Imago director brings his offbeat imagination to Eugene Opera’s “Lucy” and his own “Satie’s Journey.”
Covid clipped the new company’s wings as it was taking flight. Now it’s back, with a set of six filmed shows.
After nine years as the company’s artistic director, Dámaso RodrÃguez explains why he’s stepping down.
