Gavin Hoffman News

Portland Shakespeare Project presents an ambitious second summer of producing with The Season of Lear -- two shows, playing in rotating repertory. The Season of Lear includes an inventive adaptation of William Shakespeare's King Lear written by award-winning local playwright C.S. Whitcomb, and a startling new staging of Shakespeare's classic King Lear using only six actors and keeping the original text intact. This season of passion and adventure will begin on July 11 with Lear's Follies and on July 18 with King Lear. Both shows play on the Morrison Stage at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon, through August 5.

Arriving in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language can be a harrowing experience. Pretending to be a foreigner in your own country, well, that can be hilarious. And pretending to speak no English at a remote fishing lodge, well, that can lead to problems with the Klu Klux Klan. Author Larry Shue's brilliant script wrings every laugh out of that situation in The Foreigner opening Friday, November 5, 2010 at Lakewood Theatre Company.

Arriving in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language can be a harrowing experience. Pretending to be a foreigner in your own country, well, that can be hilarious. And pretending to speak no English at a remote fishing lodge, well, that can lead to problems with the Klu Klux Klan. Author Larry Shue's brilliant script wrings every laugh out of that situation in The Foreigner opening Friday, November 5, 2010 at Lakewood Theatre Company.