Review: WE WROTE THIS WITH YOU IN MIND at Shaking The Tree
The play, directed by Rebby Yuer Foster, is like a dream that exists in that space in between sleeping and waking.
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Review: THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO at Broadway Rose
In Adam Overett’s THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO, now playing at Broadway Rose, the question is, can three double-threats make it to Broadway?
Review: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Portland Center Stage
Especially in an election year, this play isn’t just a must-see, but a civic duty.
Review: THE LION KING at Keller Auditorium
The reason this musical is the third-longest running in Broadway history (and that its Portland tour stop is three weeks rather than the typical one week) is because it’s truly magical.
Review: DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY at Portland Center Stage
If you don't want to hear another Christmas carol, DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY may be the wild and refreshing alternative you’re looking for.
Review: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE FALLEN GIANT at Portland State University Opera
Appropriate for opera newbies, opera aficionados, and all the rest of us in between, this classic detective-story-meets-fairy-tale opera composed by Evan Meier with libretto by E.
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Portland Playhouse
There is no better way to get into the holiday spirit than this beautiful production of a timeless classic.
Review: LIBERACE & LIZA: HOLIDAY AT THE MANSION (A TRIBUTE) at Portland Center Stage
This show, starring Portland’s fabulous Liberace and Liza Minnelli impersonators, David Saffert and Jillian Snow, is a delight not to be missed.
Review: SPIDER, from the Young Professionals Company at Oregon Children's Theatre
If you are a teenager, have a teenager, or want to know more about what it’s like to be a teenager right now, definitely go see this play.
Review: BLOOD WEDDING at Shaking The Tree
Every time I go to Shaking the Tree, I wonder what surprises, delights, and disturbances artistic director Samantha Van Der Merwe and her highly creative crew have in store for us.
Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL at Portland Playhouse
This ambitious production – a cast of nearly 20, including 10 children! – is totally enchanting.
Review: MY BEDROOM IS AN INSTALLATION at Imago Theatre
What did our critic think of MY BEDROOM IS AN INSTALLATION at Imago Theatre?
Review: HAIR at Portland Center Stage
Go for the nostalgia, the music, and above all the great performances.
Review: AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' at Broadway Rose
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ is a great musical showcase, as well as a much-needed diversion.
Review: HAPPY DAYS at Northwest Classical Theatre Collaborative
Samuel Beckett’s 1961 masterpiece HAPPY DAYS, now being presented by the Northwest Classical Theatre Collaborative, is a tragicomic meditation on how to hang onto our humanity as time marches us slowly toward death.
Review: ROGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA at Broadway Rose
What did our critic think of ROGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA at Broadway Rose?
Review: SIX at Keller Auditorium
Blending 16th century history with modern pop culture and music, SIX is a super-smart, high-energy celebration of women reclaiming the narrative of their own lives.
Review: CARDIAC ORGAN: A GOTH CABARET at Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
CARDIAC ORGAN is excellent fun – not the good, clean type, but the vastly superior creepy, twisted type.
Review: IN A DIFFERENT REALITY SHE'S CLAWING AT THE WALLS at Shaking The Tree
This wild play by Max Yu explores how technology isolates and then consumes us as it goes from being a tool we use to something we’re used by.
Review: MARY JANE at Third Rail Repertory Theatre
This beautiful play is a powerful lesson in staving off despair and loneliness through authentic connection with others.
Review: TRUE STORY at Artists Repertory Theatre
What did our critic think of TRUE STORY at Artists Repertory Theatre?
Review: MYRA'S STORY at Corrib Theatre
MYRA’S STORY, a solo show by Brian Foster now running at Corrib Theatre, takes an unflinching look at the factors that resulted in a woman becoming an alcoholic and losing her home.
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Keller Auditorium
This beautiful musical, based on the true story of how a small town in Newfoundland opened their doors to 7,000 stranded “plane people” when U.
Review: HAIRSPRAY at Keller Auditorium
You will be hard-pressed to find anything more fun than this super sassy, high-energy celebration of self-acceptance, inclusivity, and, of course, big hair.
Review: SEVEN GUITARS at PassinArt: A Theatre Company
IMO you should never pass up the opportunity to see an August Wilson play, and that certainly goes for SEVEN GUITARS.
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