BWW Reviews: WAIT UNTIL DARK Is Worth Seeing - and Hearing - at Northwest Classical
Their production of Wait Until Dark is based on a revised script by Jeffrey Hatcher that premiered in 2013.
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BWW Reviews: THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS Is Innocent Dirty Fun at Broadway Rose
Whorehouse, for all of its naughty language and scantily clad cast members, is actually one of the most innocent shows around.
BWW Reviews: Clackamas Rep's CAROUSEL Is a Trip to Musical Heaven
The waltz begins its hurdy-gurdy rhythm and suddenly we're transported to the carousel through dance, music, movement, and the above-mentioned scenic effects.
BWW Reviews: Shakespeare Goes to the Frat House in Post5 Theatre's LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
The lines aren't ancient at all; the dialogue makes perfect sense, the jokes become hilarious, and the physical comedy is as well-played as a Three Stooges routine.
BWW Reviews: Do You Believe in Magic? THE TEMPEST at Portland Shakespeare Project
Theater is about illusion and the suspension of disbelief.
BWW Reviews: Broadway Rose Brings 76 Trombones and a Lot of Exuberance to THE MUSIC MAN
Their new production of The Music Man isn't flashy and doesn't do anything radical with Meredith Willson's book and score, and that's the best decision they could have made.
BWW Reviews: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Is Smartly Told at Clackamas Rep
Under the able direction of Doren Elias, the actors all get the period feeling just right, and the wealthy family feels like a wealthy family - all upper-crust manners and comfortable ease with the fancy trimmings.
BWW Reviews: Post5 Theatre Takes Another Shot at THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (REVISED)
Once the actors start doing their version of Romeo and Juliet the adrenaline kicks in, and all three performers are willing to do just about anything for a laugh.
BWW Reviews: THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE Is a Bit Too Pretty at Third Rail
McDonagh's plays are like sitcoms with the anger boiling underneath; they're like Cheers if the characters had all been wasted alcoholics, or the 'Eunice' sketches from The Carol Burnett Show with the wackiness dialed way down.
BWW Reviews: LIZZIE Is a Bloody Mess at Portland Center Stage
It is possible to do a rock show about an era that predates rock - think of Spring Awakening, Evita, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - but these fellows don't seem to know what rock has to do with Lizzie Borden.
BWW Reviews: Artists Rep Strikes a Blow with THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
John Millington Synge's 1907 play is about Christy, a young man who shows up in an Irish village and announces that he has killed his father with a blow to the head.
BWW Reviews: Family Conflict with a Political Edge in AFTER THE REVOLUTION at Portland Playhouse
To Herzog's credit, the answers aren't easy, and Emma spends the play struggling to decide how she feels about her grandfather's actions, taking input from everyone around her while trying to figure out how best to honor his legacy - even as she's still unsure what that legacy actually is.
BWW Reviews: Joy and Pain in THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Portland Center Stage
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
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 SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW
As Denzel Washington, Kenny Leon and Co.
BWW Reviews: WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
It may take a few minutes for a viewer to get his bearings within the world of WATER BY THE SPOONFUL.
BWW Reviews: THE TEMPEST at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Feats of magic are at an end, resolutions have been made and Ferdinand and Miranda are bound for a world far braver and newer than what they've experienced on this magical island.
BWW Reviews: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The throw-everything-against-the-wall-and-pray-for-laughs approach to low comedy is a staple of live theater, and certainly, of William Shakespeare's plays.
BWW Reviews: THE BIKINIS Try to Bring Back the '60s at Broadway Rose
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
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
Othello, to modern ears, is one of the most melodramatic of Shakespeare's dramas.
BWW Reviews: Post5's HAMLET Has An Antic Disposition
Imagine a young, wisecracking '80s movie star - say Robert Downey Jr.
BWW Reviews: Third Rail's MIDSUMMER Will Make You Sing in the Rain
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
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
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.
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