Review: F-ING A at Shaking The Tree
This play takes you into the darkest parts of human nature and doesn’t give you a path back out, and it forces you to think about what you would do in these situations, where every choice is a bad one.
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Review: CHICKEN & BISCUITS at Portland Playhouse
Families, amirite? And where better to experience the whole spectrum of family dynamics than at a funeral! In Douglas Lyons' comedy CHICKEN & BISCUITS, now running at Portland Playhouse, the Jenkins family is gathering for the funeral of their patriarch and pastor.
Review: THE EVOLUTION OF MANN at Broadway Rose
Excellent performances help mask the weaknesses of this not-particularly-romantic romantic comedy.
Review: THE HOMBRES at Artists Repertory Theatre
Every once in a while, a play completely renews my faith in humanity.
Review: AN EVENING OF SHORTS at Sowelu Dramatic
For the rest of this month, Sowelu is presenting a “mini-season,” which includes this program on Friday and Saturday nights, as well as readings and workshops.
Review: TICK, TICK...BOOM! at Portland Center Stage
Jonathan Larson's musical tells the story of an aspiring musical theatre writer having a quarter-life crisis.
Review: HADESTOWN at Keller Auditorium
What did our critic think of HADESTOWN at Keller Auditorium?HADESTOWN, Anaïs Mitchell’s terrific Tony- and Grammy-winning musical now on national tour, urges us to have hope that if we can imagine a better world, we can create one…even if the odds (and the gods) are against us.
Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD at Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
Funny, poignant, weird – Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s new take on THE CHERRY ORCHARD, translated by Štĕpán Šimek, is a vehicle to showcase what both Chekhov and PETE do best.
Review: KISSING THE WITCH at Corrib Theatre
Corrib’s production, directed by Tracy Cameron Francis, uses movement and visual effects to bring the magical, mystical nature of fairy tales to the forefront, while also reinforcing that these are real people dealing with real issues.
Review: RENT at Portland Center Stage
Director Chip Miller delivers a vibrant and touching production of musical theatre's most iconic shows.
BWW Review: BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE at Portland Playhouse
Kirsten Childs’ 2016 musical, now running at Portland Playhouse, offers a new take on American folklore, featuring a new tall tale hero: Bella Patterson, “a woman of mythic proportions and heroic appeal.
BWW Review: APPROPRIATE at Profile Theatre
APPROPRIATE is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ genre-upending take on the great American family drama.
BWW Review: THE SMUGGLER at Corrib Theatre
Ronán Noone's THE SMUGGLER, now running at Corrib Theatre, tells the harrowing and sympathetic tale of an Irish immigrant’s struggle to support his family.
BWW Review: THE CHILDREN at Artists Repertory Theatre
Lucy Kirkwood's Tony-nominated play raises a lot of uncomfortable questions about morality, mortality, and what we owe to other people.
BWW Review: DON'T HUG ME at Broadway Rose
Billed as “Fargo meets The Music Man (without the blood or the trombones),” DON’T HUG ME is a silly show about some residents of Bunyan Bay, Minnesota, whose lives get a jolt thanks to the appearance of a karaoke machine salesman.
BWW Review: HAMILTON at Keller Auditorium
The national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HAMILTON is once again at Keller Auditorium, and it’s just as much of a must-see as ever.
BWW Review: FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME at Portland Center Stage
FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME is a joyous celebration of music and life and the act of creating something together.
BWW Review: TITUS at Portland Playhouse
Looking for a thrill? TITUS, Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, is now running at Portland Playhouse.
BWW Review: GEM OF THE OCEAN at Portland Center Stage
GEM OF THE OCEAN is one of the last plays August Wilson wrote, but it’s the first chronologically in his Century Cycle.
BWW Review: CHICK FIGHT at Shaking The Tree
This new devised work from Shaking the Tree is exhilarating, thought-provoking, and necessary.
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