PORTLAND THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 125

When you walk into the theatre, you're greeted by ticket takers, ushers, and assorted others all in Dickensian costume, all sporting English accents; a young urchin who looked to be about eight tried to sell me a raffle ticket in a voice that came right out of Oliver Twist.

In a remote Irish village, a young American woman leaves her past behind to discover love and redemption in the world premiere of C.

Buried under all the quips, banter, and snark is an interesting play, with a plot that could really be moving and funny if played right.

It's a hot-blooded, passionate account, with sex, partying, and lots of blood, and it takes a strong company to pull it off.

The Mystery of Irma Vep has a plot, but I'm not going to bother you with it.

'There has obviously been some kind of mistake!,' says Alexander T.

The ?Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the 2015 U.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced Oregon Children's Theatre is one of six Oregon theater companies (and 919 nationwide nonprofit organizations nationwide) to receive an NEA Art Works grant.

Lakewood Theatre Company will present in December 2014 an all-new version of their annual Holiday Magic Breakfast Theatre production with the presentation of The Peppermint Bear Show and the Toy Elves.

Twist Your Dickens is two hours of sketch comedy using Dickens's tale as a very rough basic structure but going off in dozens of different directions, from parodies of classic holiday TV specials (A Charlie Brown Christmas gets banged around) to rewrites of familiar carols.

The show isn't awful.

Now in its seventh year, the Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Work continues to flourish planted in a town of prolific playwrights, abundant actors, innovative dancers, talented designers and adventuresome producers.

Having already extending the run of the show twice, Artists Rep will present Noel Coward's elegantly comedic classic, Blithe Spirit, this holiday season.

Triangle Productions! has announced the Oregon Premiere of 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE!, By Even Linder and Andrew Hobgood, Featuring Torrey Cornwell as Lulie Stanwyck, Helen Raptis as Wren Robin, Cecily Overman as Vern Schultz, Amanda Martin-Tully as Ginny Cadbury, Erica Jorgensen as Dale Prist.

When Crumpet (the character's 'elf name') gets annoyed with the other elves, the children, and their parents, Pierce doesn't get bitchy; he goes into full Shakespearean revenge mode, plotting his vengeance like Iago, and it's all the funnier for that.

Artists Rep will present Noel Coward's elegantly comedic classic, Blithe Spirit, this holiday season.

Triangle Productions! has announced the Oregon Premiere of 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE!, By Even Linder and Andrew Hobgood, Featuring Torrey Cornwell as Lulie Stanwyck, Helen Raptis as Wren Robin, Cecily Overman as Vern Schultz, Amanda Martin-Tully as Ginny Cadbury, Erica Jorgensen as Dale Prist.

Having already extending the run of the show twice, Artists Rep will present Noel Coward's elegantly comedic classic, Blithe Spirit, this holiday season.

Actors adore Shakespeare and can't wait to share that love with the rest of us, and it brings out the zest in their acting.

Portland State University College of the Arts and School of Theater + Film, in association with Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab, present Caryl Churchill's FAR AWAY, directed by Devon Allen, tonight, November 13 through November 22, 2014.

Portland Shakespeare Project (PSP) announces Lisa Harrow will direct the summer mainstage production of Twelfth Night, along with an expanded 2015 season.

Artists Rep will present a two-night concert event called Noel at Noel - Susannah Mars & friends sing Noel Coward on the set of Blithe Spirit.

Lakewood Theatre Company will present in December 2014 an all-new version of their annual Holiday Magic Breakfast Theatre production with the presentation of The Peppermint Bear Show and the Toy Elves.

Portland Ovations brings This American Life host and National Public Radio icon Ira Glass back to Merrill Auditorium tonight, November 8th at 8pm.

This monster hit enjoyed a sell-out run at the National Theatre, (as well as sold out screenings in Portland) and went on to win awards including the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller.