BWW Reviews: Joy and Pain in THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Portland Center Stage
Every moment of joy is paired with a moment of pain - and isn't that exactly how you think back on your failed relationships?
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BWW Reviews: A Very Different Kind of Nostalgia Lives at MAPLE AND VINE at CoHo Productions
What if a group of modern-day folks, annoyed by modern technology and the fast pace of life in the 21st century, decided to create a place where it would always be 1955?
BWW Reviews: THE BIKINIS Try to Bring Back the '60s at Broadway Rose
The jokes are lame, the characters are each assigned one personality trait, and the attempts to be heartfelt go flat.
BWW Reviews: Artists' Rep THE QUALITY OF LIFE Asks the Tough Questions...and Laughs at Them
Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life is a play about grief and the various ways people deal with it.
BWW Reviews: OTHELLO Fights for Glory at Portland Center Stage
Othello, to modern ears, is one of the most melodramatic of Shakespeare's dramas.
BWW Reviews: Post5's HAMLET Has An Antic Disposition
Imagine a young, wisecracking '80s movie star - say Robert Downey Jr.
BWW Reviews: Third Rail's MIDSUMMER Will Make You Sing in the Rain
A two-actor play is very dependent on its cast, who are onstage nonstop for nearly two hours, and director Philip Cuomo has chosen well.
BWW Reviews: Portland Playhouse's THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Is a Quiet Masterpiece
The entire cast of thirteen sang with pure feeling, and the rafters rang with their astonishing voices.
BWW Reviews: THE MOTHERF***ER WITH THE HAT Is a Brutally Romantic Comedy at Artists Rep
The plot boils down to whether Veronica cheated, and with whom, and whether she will ever stop abusing substances, and whether Jackie can manage to stay sober.
BWW Reviews: Give in to Your Nerdy Side with BAND GEEKS at Broadway Rose
Band Geeks is the kind of show you start out scoffing at for its simple-minded depiction of teenage problems, but the darn thing sneaks up on you, and you walk out cheering.
BWW Reviews: THE MONSTER-BUILDER Is a Devil of a Comedy at Artists Rep
Part of the fun is figuring out what's going to happen and where the whole thing is headed.
BWW Reviews: JITNEY is a Long, Meandering Ride at Portland Playhouse
The play is anecdotal, each character telling long stories about where they've been and what they've lived through, but the stories are less distinctive than I'm used to from August Wilson.
BWW Reviews: CHINGLISH is Filled with Cross-Cultural Laughter at Portland Center Stage
An American businessman comes over to try to sell the city leaders on hiring his company to build the signage for the center, in hopes of avoiding the mistranslations we've all seen and laughed at.
BWW Reviews: Crazy, Maddening, and Funny...That's ENJOY at Coho Productions
Sometimes a play that isn't working takes a positive step in its second half, and that's the case with Enjoy.
BWW Reviews: All the Laughs You Could Ever Want Are in NOISES OFF at Third Rail
Michael Frayn's farce-within-a-farce is simply the funniest play ever written by a human, and it's so good that even high schoolers can get surefire laughs with it.
BWW Reviews: Artists Rep's FOXFINDER Gets Lost in the Woods
William keeps searching, Judith tries to hold things together, and Sam becomes increasingly agitated.
BWW Reviews: A Fractured Family Faces THE OUTGOING TIDE at CoHo Productions
A playwright choosing Alzheimer's as a topic would seem to have painted himself into a corner, and we expect that we're going to spend the evening watching Gunner get worse.
BWW Reviews: The Road to Hell Begins with a Backyard Barbecue in DETROIT at Portland Playhouse
Lisa D'Amour's play Detroit does not specifically take place in Michigan, but everything about it reminded me of my hometown.
BWW Reviews: A Showbiz Tour de Force at Artists Rep, But MISTAKES WERE MADE
Mistakes Were Made is more or less a one-man show.
BWW Reviews: A Family Dinner Is SWEET AND SAD at Third Rail
I completely forgot I was watching a play.
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