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Patrick Brassell is the author of five published novels and five produced plays. He has directed, produced, and designed sound for about fifty theater productions, and he has acted on rare occasion. He sang with a number of unsuccessful bar bands, wrote a comprehensive blog about the history of the Academy Awards, and wishes he were young enough to audition for American Idol. In the meantime, he has a day job in the financial industry, and lives in the Portland neighborhood of Cedar Mill.

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BWW Reviews: Joy and Pain in THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Portland Center Stage

May 4, 2014

Every moment of joy is paired with a moment of pain - and isn't that exactly how you think back on your failed relationships?

BWW Reviews: A Very Different Kind of Nostalgia Lives at MAPLE AND VINE at CoHo Productions

May 3, 2014

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

April 21, 2014

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

April 21, 2014

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

April 21, 2014

Othello, to modern ears, is one of the most melodramatic of Shakespeare's dramas.

BWW Reviews: Post5's HAMLET Has An Antic Disposition

March 30, 2014

Imagine a young, wisecracking '80s movie star - say Robert Downey Jr.

BWW Reviews: Third Rail's MIDSUMMER Will Make You Sing in the Rain

March 30, 2014

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

March 9, 2014

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

March 9, 2014

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

February 3, 2014

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

February 2, 2014

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

January 28, 2014

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

January 28, 2014

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

January 19, 2014

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

December 16, 2013

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

November 3, 2013

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

October 20, 2013

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

October 7, 2013

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

October 6, 2013

Mistakes Were Made is more or less a one-man show.

BWW Reviews: A Family Dinner Is SWEET AND SAD at Third Rail

September 30, 2013

I completely forgot I was watching a play.

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