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Review: ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS at Portland Playhouse
Portland Playhouse is not known for playing it safe, so it's fitting that their latest production centers on a woman, Anna Campbell, who built her entire legend on one audacious act. ...
Review: GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER at Imago Theatre
Geography of a Horse Dreamer by Sam Shepard wrestles with artistic value, exploitation, power, and control. You will never dream the same again. On stage at Imago Theatre through March 1, 2026...
Review: RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR at Artists Rep
In Kallan Dana’s RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, a father (Anthony Green Caloca) and his adult daughter (Jerilyn Armstrong) head off on a cross-country drive from New York to California to clean out a storage unit....
Review: THE BODY'S MIDNIGHT at 100 Lives Repertory
It took about 10 seconds for tears to well up in my eyes during the opening monologue of THE BODY'S MIDNIGHT. They stayed there, occasionally spilling over, for the rest of Tira Palmquist's exquisite play. This show is just the second production by 100 Lives Repertory, but it firmly establishes them...
Review: YOU STUPID DARKNESS! at 21ten Theatre
How do we carry on when everything is falling apart? In YOU STUPID DARKNESS!, Sam Steiner's funny and touching dramedy now running at 21ten Theatre, four volunteers spend their Tuesday nights answering calls at Brightline, a listening service for people who need someone to tell them everything is go...
Review: THE WIZ at Keller Auditorium
For years, I'd written off THE WIZ. My only prior experience with the show had been a disappointing production that left me confused about why the original had swept the Tony Awards in 1975, winning Best Musical and Best Original Score among other honors. ...
Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Portland Center Stage
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard, or heard an entire packed audience laugh so hard. In a world that feels very heavy, Portland Center Stage's production of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG offers something we desperately need: two hours of pure, unrelenting fun....
Review: IN CLAY at Broadway Rose
There aren't many full-length one-person musicals, which makes IN CLAY particularly intriguing even before you discover how exquisite it is. This fairly new musical by Jack Miles and Rebecca Simmonds excavates the true story of Marie-Berthe Cazin, a French painter and sculptor in the late 19th and e...
Review: TIGER STYLE! at Profile Theatre
What did our critic think of TIGER STYLE! at Profile Theatre?...
Review: NERVOUS LAUGHTER at 21ten Theatre
In times like these laughter is not a luxury. It is a lifeline. Peter Lundquist’s Nervous Laughter reminds you of that as an invitation to exhale and laugh even when life feels heavy. Come for the laughs, stay for the performance, and leave a little lighter. On stage through January 24th....
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Portland Playhouse
Portland Playhouse’s annual production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL continues to be essential holiday viewing. It’s a gorgeous piece of theatre that honors tradition while finding ways to surprise even its most devoted returnees. Consider me among them, already looking forward to next year....
Review: THE WINTER'S TALE at Salt And Sage
Shakespeare's THE WINTER’S TALE is notoriously difficult to do well. One of the Bard's later 'problem plays,' it essentially presents two different theatrical worlds: the first half is a tragedy driven by King Leontes' sudden, irrational jealousy toward his pregnant wife Hermione and his best frie...
Review: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S LITTLE WOMEN at Portland Center Stage
What did our critic think of LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S LITTLE WOMEN at Portland Center Stage? I had forgotten that Little Women opens at Christmas until I started rereading the book in anticipation of Portland Center Stage's production of Lauren M. Gunderson's new adaptation: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S LITTLE WO...
Review: STILT at Corrib Theatre
Not knowing who you are can hollow you out, leaving a space that can too easily get filled with all sorts of dangerous things. Joy Nesbitt's STILT, now making its world premiere at Corrib Theatre under Holly Griffith's direction, takes that primal anxiety about identity and weaves it into something ...
Review: RECENT TRAGIC EVENTS at Third Rail Repertory Theatre
What did our critic think of RECENT TRAGIC EVENTS at Third Rail Repertory Theatre?...
Review: MADONNA OF THE CAT at 21ten Theatre
What did our critic think of MADONNA OF THE CAT at 21ten Theatre?...
Review: SHUCKED at Keller Auditorium
In times like these, sometimes you just need to turn off your brain and laugh. That's exactly what the national tour of the musical comedy SHUCKED delivers – a few hours of unapologetically silly, pun-saturated fun....
Review: DANCING ON THE SABBATH at Shaking The Tree
Samantha Van Der Merwe once again demolishes any idea of conventional theatre with DANCING ON THE SABBATH, her adaptation of 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses,' now running at Shaking the Tree Theatre. It's a story told without audible dialogue, a movement piece without traditional dance, and an immers...
Review: PARADISE BLUE at Portland Playhouse
Dominique Morisseau's PARADISE BLUE, now running at Portland Playhouse, is an intense, beautifully acted noir drama about community, legacy, and the forces that tear both apart. Set at the Paradise Club in Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood in 1949, this jazz-infused play opens with a jolt — a tr...
Review: THE BED TRICK at Artists Repertory Theatre
What did our critic think of THE BED TRICK at Artists Repertory Theatre? Is all well that ends well? If you’re familiar with Shakespeare's comedy, you know this is a loaded question. The play's supposedly happy resolution hinges on the 'bed trick,' a deception in which one person tricks another pe...
Review: PRIMARY TRUST at Portland Center Stage
When I saw Portland Center Stage lineup for this season, the show I was most excited about was Eboni Booth’s PRIMARY TRUST. I’d heard nothing but good things about this play, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The plot is deceptively simple, but underneath flows a current of kindness, ...
Review: ORANGE FLOWER WATER at 100 Lives Repertory
As the lights dimmed at the end of ORANGE FLOWER WATER, the debut production of 100 Lives Repertory, a deafening silence settled over the audience, as if we were collectively deciding whether to clap or let out a primal scream. It was one of the most visceral theatrical experiences I've had in years...
Review: TRIANGLE at Broadway Rose
When I first learned that a musical romance would be built around the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — one of New York's most devastating industrial disasters (there’s an excellent book about it) — I'll admit I was skeptical. But TRIANGLE, with its intricate dual narrative structure, won me ...
Review: THE CAKE at Triangle Productions
Right now, with political divisions seeming to slice through every aspect of our lives, Bekah Brunstetter's 2017 play THE CAKE arrives at triangle productions with uncomfortable timeliness. This show is a funny and insightful exploration of what happens when our convictions collide with our hearts....
Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Keller Auditorium
What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at Keller Auditorium?...
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