Few words can describe the pleasure of watching Vanessa Goodwin: Adventures of a Thoroughly Modern Argonaut like “cheekily delightful.” In Conor Eifler’s ode to Greek myth and Indy-style treasure hunting, presented…
‘Astoria, Part One’: a story of wealth, ambition and survival
Chris Coleman, director and adaptor of Portland Center Stage’s production of Astoria: Part One, opened the performance just below center stage, asking the audience: “Are you ready?” It was clear…
Student-written, student-directed, student-produced
PSU Theater Group Premieres Play Written, Directed, and Performed by Students Come one, come all to the world premiere of The Hick Inbreds of Valley Low, produced by student club…
Students direct professional actors following PlayWrite workshop
Creativity took the stage on Oct. 5 as five students presented their own one-act plays written over the course of a 10-day playwriting workshop. Hosted at the Native American Student…
‘A Night of Strindberg’ tackles masculinity and gender relationships
Starting with August Strindberg’s 1889 one act play The Stronger, and featuring Per Olov Enquist’s 1975 The Night of the Tribades, the Portland State School of Theater + Film’s A…
Stage club introduces independent run of ‘Arms and the Man’
Arms and the Man, by celebrated Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, is a comedy about an enemy soldier sneaking into a girl’s room, setting the stage for mischief throughout the…
Opera program brings music history to life with ‘Die Fledermaus’
Die Fledermaus, an operetta composed by Johann Strauss, is about a sophisticated masked ball hosted by a Russian prince. The opera is enjoying a run of seven shows (including a…
The power of speaking through dance
Louder than Words is Northwest Dance Project’s most anticipated event this season and will be performed March 17 through 19 at the Newmark Theater. The piece includes three unique dances,…
Emotionally connect through the spoken word
Activist, slam poet, and the first winner of the Women’s Poetry Slam, Andrea Gibson, is coming to the Hawthorne Theater on March 8 in Southeast Portland. Gibson was born in…
See King Lear spiral into insanity at Post5 Theater
“King Lear” is a play about a powerful king’s gradual descent into madness. Post5 Theater will present their version of this wild Shakespearean production from February 26 to March 19….
Explore the underworld in ‘Eurydice’
Award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl’s retelling of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus, Eurydice, opened on Nov. 12 in the Portland State School of Theater & Film. In Ruhl’s version, the…