BWW Review: Torchsong's THE JOLLY RIOT is Both Jolly and Riotous
THE JOLLY RIOT, from Torchsong Entertainment, is a pirate metal musical featuring swashbuckling music, all your favorite pirate tropes, and plenty of camp.
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BWW Review: In STRAIGHT, a New Generation Tackles Tough Questions About Sexuality and Identity, at triangle productions!
STRAIGHT focuses on Ben, a 26-year-old investment banker with a six-figure income, a devoted girlfriend, and a clandestine relationship with another man.
BWW Review: Eleanor O'Brien Honors the Goddess in HOW TO REALLY...REALLY? REALLY! LOVE A WOMAN
In her new solo show, HOW TO REALLY.
BWW Review: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS Reminds Us of the Power of Empathy, at Portland Center Stage
Portland Center Stage's TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS asks us all to 'imagine what the world would be if we led with love and kindness," and shows us a path to get there.
BWW Review: COME FROM AWAY Celebrates Extraordinary Human Kindness
COME FROM AWAY is an inspirational, funny, and uplifting musical about a small community in Canada that opened their hearts and homes to 7,000 strangers on 9/11.
BWW Review: Milagro Theatre's LA SEGUA is a Rich and Complex Warning Against Our Obsession with Youth and Beauty
In LA SEGUA, Alberto Cañas Escalante adapts a Costa Rican legend to provide a sharp critique of our cultural obsession with beauty.
BWW Review: Gender Politics, Marriage, and Equality: A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, at Artists Rep
A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, now playing at Artists Rep, is smart funny, and raises questions worth grappling with as we work toward gender equality in personal relationships, politics, and society in general.
BWW Review: Depression Haunts an Irish Farm in FOUR LAST THINGS, at Corrib Theatre
Lisa Tierney-Keogh FOUR LAST THINGS demonstrates the devastating consequences of the isolation and desolation of life in the Irish countryside.
BWW Review: Life's Layovers Become Permanent in THE DELAYS, at Theatre Vertigo
Most of our cultural stories (plays, movies, news stories) are about the first group.
BWW Review: BUYER & CELLAR Is a Fabulous Journey to Fantasyland, at Portland Center Stage
Nick Cearley stars in Jonathan Tolins' delightful one-person play BUYER & CELLAR, now playing at Portland Center Stage.
BWW Review: Fertile Ground Musicals: VORTEX 1, DISCONNECTED: A FRANKENSTEIN MUSICAL, SIRENS OF COOS BAY
The 10th Anniversary Fertile Ground Festival has reached its final weekend.
BWW Review: Great Cast Makes NUNSENSE Funsense, at Broadway Rose
NUNSENSE is a musical based on a cabaret show based on a greeting card line.
BWW Review: Fertile Ground: JUICEBOX
JUICEBOX is a painfully funny tribute to 90s teenagerdom.
BWW Review: Fertile Ground: THE UNDERTAKING and ART OF AGING PROJECT
THE UNDERTAKING and ART OF AGING PROJECT, two new pieces now in performance together as part of the 10th Anniversary Fertile Ground Festival, seek to spark a new conversation around aging and death, as well as provide space for seniors' voices.
BWW Review: Bedlam's SENSE & SENSIBILITY Flies onto Portland Center Stage (Warning: May Cause Dizziness)
Directed by Eric Tucker and with sets by John McDermott, Portland Center Stage's production of Kate Hamill's SENSE & SENSIBILITY is close to the Bedlam original.
BWW Review: A Community Copes with Trauma in World Premiere of NO CANDY, at Portland Playhouse
Directed by Tea Alagic, Emma Stanton's NO CANDY reveals the power and fortitude of the human spirit.
BWW Review: Fertile Ground: WITCH HUNT
WITCH HUNT (featuring Sascha Blocker, Jeff Desautels, Amica Hunter, Emily Newton, and Maureen Porter), draws on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, along with the McCarthy hearings, the Federalist papers, the Puritan work ethic, and current events, to explore our cultural obsession with finger-pointing vi
BWW Review: TEENAGE DICK, at Artists Rep, Explores Social Dynamics in One of World's Harshest Environments: High School
TEENAGE DICK is a high school adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, a play about lust for power and revenge written during a time when a physical disability was thought to indicate a moral failing.
BWW Review: THE KING AND I Is Gorgeous, But Falls a Little Flat, at Keller Auditorium
The national tour of THE KING AND I has all of the makings of a perfect classic musical production -- lavish sets, gorgeous costumes, excellent performances, and, of course, great music.
BWW Review: Experience a Christmas Classic in a Whole New Way with Artists Rep's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY is a wonderful way to experience this time-honored classic -- great holiday fun for the whole family!
BWW Review: Portland Playhouse's A CHRISTMAS CAROL Continues to Surprise and Delight
This production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is absolutely delightful.
BWW Review: Once Again, A CHRISTMAS MEMORY/WINTER SONG Offers a Moment of Calm (and Cookies) in the Eye of the Holiday Storm, at Portland Center Stage
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY/WINTER SONG is quiet and thoughtful -- a 90-minute break from the hecticity, when you can take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy some beautiful music while contemplating the joy and sorrow that come hand in hand during this season.
BWW Review: IN THE WAKE Challenges Us to See and Conquer Our Blind Spots, Both Personally and Politically, at Profile Theatre
Lisa Kron's IN THE WAKE draws parallels between the personal and the political to suggest that even the most unimaginable outcomes aren't really that out there -- it's just that we're really bad at seeing past the end of our own nose.
BWW Review: In Artists Rep's EVERYBODY, Death Comes for Us All, Whether We're Ready or Not
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' EVERYBODY is not your normal holiday fare, but I highly recommend you find time in your busy schedule to see it.
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The Dark Stuff Twilight Theater Company (8/20-9/06) |
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You Can’t Take It With You Lakewood Theatre Company (9/11-10/18) |
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Barefoot In The Park Bag&Baggage Productions (9/03-9/20) |
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Smote This, A Comedy About God... and Other Serious $H*T Oregon Shakespeare Festival (8/27-10/24) |
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Beauty And The Beast Keller Auditorium (1/05-1/10) |
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Bad Seed Twilight Theater Company (10/15-11/01) |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue Paramount Theater Ashland (11/04-11/04) |
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Cuthbert Amphitheater (9/19-9/19) |
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Four Old Broads: Christmas Extravaganza Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre (HART) (12/05-12/20) |