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Review: THE PAVILLION at 100 Lives Repertory
Now onstage at 100 Lives Repertory, THE PAVILION is a play about time – the Narrator will tell you so at the outset. It’s also a play about scope. Craig Wright's poetic script opens with the creation of the universe and narrows, with breathtaking precision, to the story of two people at their 20...
Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at Portland Playhouse
When I saw Portland Playhouse's 2025–2026 season announced, the show I was most irrationally excited about was THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL. I’m far from an expert on the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, but I've watched enough episodes to have completely fallen for the little yellow sponge in square pa...
Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS at The Canon Shakespeare Company
You don't often get the chance to see DOCTOR FAUSTUS on stage. Christopher Marlowe's early 1600s masterwork is the ur-text of the Faustian bargain, the template for everything from the musical Damn Yankees to the Al Pacino-Keanu Reeves film The Devil's Advocate. And yet it rarely gets produced. Than...
Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Keller Auditorium
Nearly 40 years after its Broadway premiere, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA continues to cast its spell. I saw proof of that everywhere at the packed Keller Auditorium, including a young girl clutching a teddy bear wearing a tiny Phantom mask. The now and future PHANTOM fandom is in excellent hands....
Review: FUNNY GIRL at Lakewood Theatre
Hello Gorgeous! Lakewood Theatre brings the curtain down on its 73rd season in spectacular fashion with the heartfelt, funny, and moving musical comedy Funny Girl. What a way to say goodbye to a landmark season. Get tix https://lakewood-center.org/...
Review: FAT HAM at Portland Center Stage And Portland Playhouse
Confession time: I saw the original production of FAT HAM on Broadway, and I thought “meh.” Clearly, I just didn’t get it. Now, after seeing this stunning co-production between Portland Center Stage and Portland Playhouse, directed by Charles Grant, I finally understand....
Review: FERTILE GROUND 2026: REVIEW ROUNDUP #3
Fertile Ground 2026 wrapped up last weekend, and on the whole, it was fantastic. I saw 17 shows, which included readings of plays by well-known local playwrights, new works by rising stars, and some fun genre-bending original performances. Here are my notes about the final set. If you missed my firs...
Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Shaking The Tree
On my way to Shaking the Tree Theatre to see Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE, I realized I had seen more comical adaptations of the play, ranging from gently ribbing to outright farcical, than actual productions of it....
Review: FERTILE GROUND 2026 - REVIEW ROUNDUP #2
What did our critic think of FERTILE GROUND 2026 - REVIEW ROUNDUP #2 at Various?...
Review: LADYBUG! LADYBUG! at Lakewood Theatre
If you love sitcoms, Hollywood nostalgia, and a good love story, Ladybug! Ladybug! is an absolute delight, and you still have a chance to catch it tonight!...
Review: FERTILE GROUND 2026: REVIEW ROUNDUP #1
This year’s Fertile Ground Festival started last Friday. As in years past, I’ll be posting short reviews of everything I see. Here’s the first set....
Review: MURDER ON THE MISSION TO MARS! at 21ten Theatre
You have a limited time to see this show, and you don’t want to miss it. Get yourself to 21ten, whether you walk, drive, or fly and join the mission. MURDER ON THE MISSION TO MARS!...
Review: TETHERED at 21ten Theatre
Stefan Feuerherdt brings a fresh and thoughtful voice to a timeless story, weaving together questions of morality, mortality, and the weight of others' expectations into something deeply human and moving in TETHERED, a Fertile Ground new work....
Review: APPLE HUNTERS! at Artists Rep
What did our critic think of APPLE HUNTERS! at Artists Rep?...
Review: OUTSIDE MULLINGAR at Corrib Theatre
There's a particular kind of melancholy that settles over you like a damp wool coat: heavy, familiar, not entirely unpleasant, often surprisingly funny. John Patrick Shanley's Tony-nominated play OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, now running at Corrib Theatre under Holly Griffith's direction, is soaked in it....
Review: SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY at Triangle Productions
Four Southern women, one unforgettable night out, Savannah Sipping Society is the show your soul needs right now. On stage now at Triangle Productions....
Review: LES MISÉRABLES at Keller Auditorium
Boublil and Schönberg's LES MISÉRABLES stormed back to the Keller Auditorium last night. I went in wondering how a show about a failed anti-monarchist uprising in 1832 might land differently now, on the heels of the third national 'No Kings' protest, than it did when it was last here in 2018. ...
Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Broadway Rose
DEAR EVAN HANSEN, now running at Broadway Rose, is a multiple Tony Award-winning musical about an anxious, depressed, and profoundly lonely high schooler who gets swept into an extraordinary situation when a classmate named Connor Murphy dies by suicide. ...
Review: ALMA DE LUNA at HART Theatre
What did our critic think of ALMA DE LUNA at HART Theatre? Invisible Friends Productions presents a World Premiere production written by local playwright David Fuks and directed by Humberto Mugnai, now playing at Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre....
Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Twilight Theater
What did our critic think of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Twilight Theater?...
Review: ATHENA at 21ten Theatre
ATHENA, now running at the tiny but mighty 21ten Theatre, is a keenly observed comedy about two high schoolers training for the Junior Olympics. They are, by turns, practice partners, rivals, and almost-friends. Gracie Gardner's play understands that the last of those is by far the most difficult ch...
Review: A MIRROR at Third Rail Repertory Theatre
When seeing a new-to-me play, I typically try to walk in knowing as little as possible. I love the joy of discovery. That approach has never served me better than it did for A MIRROR, Sam Holcroft's gripping play now running at Third Rail Repertory Theatre. ...
Review: LIZARD BOY at Portland Center Stage
If you had told me I would cry my eyes out at a musical about a young man with green, scaly skin who only leaves his apartment once a year to go on a Grindr date, I would have given you the side eye. But there I was on opening night of LIZARD BOY at Portland Center Stage, completely undone by this i...
Review: RIOT QUEENS at Fuse Theatre
As the Trump administration works to erase trans people from public life (literally removing the 'T' from LGBT on the government's website about the Stonewall Uprising, a movement to which trans people were central), it becomes urgent to understand that these events don't happen in a vacuum. They ar...
Review: THE MOUSETRAP at Mask & Mirror
Few plays in theatrical history have achieved the enduring success of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie. Since its premiere in 1952, the production has continued its celebrated run in London, earning its place as the longest running show of any kind in the world. ...
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