tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75247282011-08-16T20:11:37.409-07:00Focusing on the Portland, Oregon theatre scene in precisely 50-word increments. <a href="mailto:followspot@hotmail.com">followspot@hotmail.com</a>followspothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390128032621439981noreply@blogger.comBlogger12771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524728.post-30830280877858401142009-12-10T14:12:00.001-08:002009-12-10T15:28:03.798-08:00

After 5+ years of focusing on the Portland, Oregon theatre scene in precisely 50-word increments, followspot returns to obscurity. Thank you for reading and responding. followspot@hotmail.comJune - December 20092008-20092007-20082006-20072005-20062004-2005 Theatre Artists Profiles

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Public PlayhouseDecember 4 - 19, 2009Summary:Jean Shephard's story of 9 year-old Ralphie's quest to get a genuine Red Ryder Model Air Rifle under the tree for Christmas. This unique multimedia presentation features radio-style staging, video animation and a gifted cast, including sound effects by Live-Wire's Pat Janowski and the many talented voices of Mary McDonald-Lewis.

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Magenta TheaterDecember 3 - 19, 2009Summary:Instead of performing Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to PERFORM every Christmas story ever told - plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture, and every carol ever sung. A madcap romp through the holiday season.

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Hand2Mouth TheatreDecember 4, 2009Summary:Support Hand2Mouth by bidding on prizes from yoga packages to locally made jewelry to fancy dinners and booze. Speaking of booze, the beer and wine will be flowing at our no-host bar. And you’ll be able to document the evening’s festivities in our holiday photo booth. Ugly sweaters provided.

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Lakewood Theatre Co.December 5 - 19, 2009Summary:The show, created and directed by Milli Hoelscher, is an original musical adaptation of holiday stories and songs and features favorite holiday and fairy tale characters. Enjoy a special holiday continental breakfast 1/2 hour before the show as performers interact with young audience members to bring them memories of holidays past.

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JANE a theater companyDecember 3 - 27, 2009Free!Summary:Red is sent to Grandmama's house with a basket of "green" items. Along the way she is enticed by a Wolf, befriended by a gaseous Cow, frightened by a lonely Bee, saddened by a wistful Polar Bear, serenaded by a group of Pigs and lectured by a global warming expert!

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Miracle Theatre GroupDecember 5, 2009Summary:This unique fundraiser will feature the talents of some of Miracle’s favorite Latino musicians and dancers along with spirited beverages, eggnog, and the opportunity to receive some lovely holiday gifts when guests make a tax-deductible donation to the Miracle. An assortment of gift certificates, FlexPasses and stocking stuffers will be available for

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The Working Theatre CollectiveDecember 3 - 19, 2009Summary:If The Lucky Woman’s Jocasta doesn’t regret choices, notably incest, why does she kill herself? Or is statement of non-regret ironic? One of many unsatisfying puzzlers of this retelling of the Oedipus cycle that’s presented with wary, dispassionate aloofness. Wished to see, rather than hear, about action. Bring a blanket.

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Portland Center StageDecember 3 - 27, 2009Summary:Based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland display, this hilarious cult classic features comic encounters during the height of the holiday crunch. PCS brings a holiday favorite back to Portland as a special Studio Theater presentation. Starring Wade McCollum.

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Dance Naked ProductionsNovember 27 - December 5, 2009Review by peanutduckSean Bowie unabashedly hands us his past: In the clutches of Addiction nice guys are transformed into, well, pathetic fuckers. Initially drawn in by Bowie’s understated earnestness and honesty, interest gradually drifted as his step-by-step descent recalled the how-I-came-to-AA confessions told at meetings instead of a

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Lakewood TheatreNovember 6 - December 13, 2009Summary:Sheridan Whiteside, a New York critic, lecturer, wit, and radio orator, slips on the icy doorstep of the prominent Stanley family during a publicity stop. For the next six weeks the convalescing curmudgeon interferes with everyone and everything while confined to the Stanley's living room. Includes penguins and convicts.

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Portland PlayhouseNovember 20 - December 13, 2009Summary:Three interlopers from the Lower East Side: hard-ass Dee, coke-hyped Stash, and enigmatic stage manager Wilson, outline their plan to rob big-time bingo night to fund their latest production, a scatological spin on Three Sisters. Populated with characters from the nightmare you wish you'd always had. Directed by Tim True.

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Third Rail Repertory **Photo credit: Owen Carey**November 20 - December 13, 2009Review by peanutduck Lock two dimwitted cops in a room with a pedo(phile)-hunting mom, dress-lifting old woman, and chihuahua, and watch them slog through forced shtick, complication. Physical comedy is sharp, Michael O’Connell and John Steinkamp’s bewildered desperation charms, but, overall, jokes are burdened

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Portland Improv Group (P.I.G.)November 21 - December 12, 2009Summary:Take your favorite Holiday characters and stories, add a dose of the unexpected, wrap them in a festive gift box, and whaddaya got? P.I.G.’s newest show, just in time for the Yuletide season! Every show is different, based on your personal stories and suggestions. You won’t wanna re-gift this one!

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The 3rd FloorNovember 27 - December 26, 2009Summary:An all-new sketch comedy show just in time to once again buck the holiday theater trends. So here comes a show with sketches involving a 6-foot tall talking doughnut, Egyptian ankhs, cereal mascot lounge acts, bee beards, misunderstood pantsless burglers, unplanned middle-aged after-dinner orgies, and tacos…lots and lots of tacos.

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Artists Repertory TheatreNovember 17 - December 20, 2009Summary:A.R.T. remounts Holidazed after receiving numerous requests from audience members to bring back the popular holiday comedy. The unique holiday comedy is the hilarious and heartwarming story of the do-it-all super mom and wife who throws her Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas season on its ear when she takes in a feisty homeless

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Broadway Rose Theatre Co. **Photo credit: Craig Mitchelldyer**November 19 - December 20, 2009Summary:Gal-pal singing group The Marvelous Wonderettes have been invited to perform at the 1968 holiday party for Harper’s Hardware Store. Beauty queen Cindy Lou, wise-crackin’ gum
 chewin’ Suzy, shy gal Missy, and scrappy Betty Jean create a rockin’ lively mix of ‘50s and ‘60s holiday hits and

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Portland Center Stage **Photo credit: Owen Carey**November 24 - December 27, 2009Summary:Already a Portland holiday tradition, this original adaptation by Mead Hunter asks the timely and reflective questions: What do you value most? And is it what’s truly important? At the holiday season, renew your answers to these essential questions alongside Tiny Tim, Ebenezer Scrooge and a sleigh full of

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Do Jump!November 28 - January 3, 2010Summary:Based on the memoirs of Sunny Lu (a beautiful orange tabby). See the extraordinary human members of DO JUMP! create a one room feline circus. This show includes trampoline furniture, flying human cat toys and live music from rock and roll to classical performed by Klezmocracy.

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24 Hr. Productions7th Annual Richard Foreman Mini-FestivalA Chorus LineA Christmas CarolA Christmas StoryA Country DoctorA David Ives HomecomingA Falling Apart Sort of Thing: A Ghost StoryA Little Night MusicA Midsommer Nights DreameAll My SonsAnansi, A Story from West AfricaAugust: Osage CountyBecky's New CarBen Franklin: UnpluggedBingoBingo with the IndiansBlithe

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Tears of Joy TheatreNovember 28, 2009

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Portland Civic Theatre GuildDecember 1, 2009

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Third Rail RepertoryNovember 29, 2009Free!

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Fuse Theatre EnsembleNovember 29, 2009

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Tears of Joy TheatreNovember 13 - 29, 2009Summary:Tears of Joy’s puppetry theatre bring to life the Miller and his daughter Lola, the King, baby Lulu, and a mysterious little man. He’s quick. He’s sly. Can you guess his name? It’s Rumpelstiltskin! The songs and magic of this timeless story will delight and enthrall audiences of all ages.

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Super Project LabNovember 20 & 21, 2009Summary:Meet Your Madmen + Meet Your Critic. There are a lot of amazing people in fair Portland who are doing great things. SPL believes audiences deserve to get to know these folks a little better. Meet Your ______! reveals spontaneous, personal stories and inspires a night of unforgettable improv.

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Oregon Children's Theatre **Photo credit: Owen Carey**October 31 - November 22, 2009Review by peanutduckNon-drama: Thin, ho-hum script and indefinite directorial tone create series of anti-climaxes; Doren Elias (Willy Wonka), an uncertain navigator of Wonka’s moral ambiguity. Young Golden Ticket holders excel with creepy characterizations, and picture-book costumes and sharp make-up heighten

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The Brooklyn BayNovember 6 - 22, 2009Summary:A one woman celebration of exhaustion, uncertainty and the art of giving up hope. A timely and uplifting collection of stories, music and musings inspired by the writings of Pema Chodron, an American Buddhist nun on the nature of hope, fear and finding joy. Conceived, directed, performed by Melanya Helene.Summer 2009 review.

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BroadArts Theatre **Photo credit: Owen Carey**October 23 - November 22, 2009Summary:The musical features an ensemble cast of women of substance and sings and satirizes its way through the all-you-can-eat buffet of diets, drugs, corporate greed, media brainwashing and discouragement that surround many people of size. "We’re fat! So what? It’s time to sing the praises of our whole luscious selves!”

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Triangle Productions!October 22 - November 22, 2009Summary:Exploding with fun, Hats! is a new musical about a 49.999 year-old woman who reluctantly faces the inevitable BIG 5-0...until she meets several remarkable women who show her about fun, friendship and forgetting about things that simply don't matter anymore. Inspired by the Red Hat Society.

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Third Eye TheatreOctober 16 - November 21, 2009Summary:This play focuses on an Army Captain who is generally content to follow orders and do as he is told. The troop he is in charge of is being sent on missions to bomb Constantinople (not Istanbul) & Minnesota. Why? Just because their orders say so!

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Northwest Classical Theatre Co.October 23 - November 22, 2009Summary:Part of a larger narrative of the rise of the House of York, both parts of Henry IV focus on the disintegration of King Henry of Bolingbroke's kingdom, family, and body while he strives to atone for his usurpation of the throne of his cousin Richard II.

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CoHo Productions **Photo credit: Win Goodbody**October 14 - November 21, 2009Summary:Playwright Sam Shepard pulls us into the middle of the brutal, knock-down, drag out, lover’s quarrel. Methodically revealing each tier of dark secrets behind their past, Shepard tells this story told with reckless abandon and infinite care, leaving us with haunting images and truths. Starring Val Landrum and

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Portland Center Stage **Photo credit: Owen Carey**September 29 - November 22, 2009Summary:Gazing into the bathroom mirror one morning while shaving, Josh Kornbluth realizes that he looks remarkably like the guy on the $100 bill. Like any good Jewish son, he immediately calls his mother. From there he becomes obsessed with what it means to be a founding father.

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Atomic ArtsOctober 30 - November 21, 2009Review by peanutduckScreen-to-stage Cliffs Notes adaptation hits plot points but little else; channels a B-movie recitative acting style without delight of B-movie cheesy special effects; truck-sized pauses; actors – project. Fast Computers’ organ accompaniment great, though could be more effective if accented moments rather than continually underscored.

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Profile TheatreNovember 12 - 22, 2009Summary:Courtship, Valentine’s Day and 1918 form the centerpiece of Horton Foote’s celebrated nine-play series entitled The Orphan’s Home Cycle. These plays span thirty years in the lives of the inhabitants of Harrison, Texas, providing a panorama of American life in the early twentieth century. Staged reading.

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by Charles Augustus Steen, IIINovember 12 - 22, 2009Summary:I couldn't find much info on the play but PDX Pipeline has an interesting blurb about it.

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Hand2Mouth TheatreNovember 6 - 22, 2009Review by peanutduckWho is the audience? H2M confides this piece is personal; maybe too much, not enough distance between heart-strung confessional to universal. Because this isn’t “everyone’s family”; for the non-everyone, it’s an alienating, narrow-framed portrait of a specific type of middle/upper-class family experience. To what end this (yes, aesthetic)

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Interview by Followspot**Photo credit: Sara Gray Photography**"I think that theatre has the biggest impact on a smaller scale. I mean, it’s not going to ever reach as many people, but there’s something about bringing a bunch of people in and you’re all sitting in the same theatre together and having this common experience...."Megan Kate Ward: Artistic Director of The David Mamet School for Boys

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Lambda TheatreNovember 13, 2009, 8pm & 11pm@ The Church, 602 NE PrescottContact lambdatheatre@gmail.com for infoSummary:Scott's a drug addict who's sleeping rough on the streets and finds solace in a seaside home located in New England, owned by sexually repressed Englishman, Nigel. After two attempts to get Scott to leave him alone with his tea and his vacations, Nigel finds the truth behind

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Super Project Lab with Brainwaves Improv Comedy and The LiberatorsNovember 14, 2009Summary:Three of Portland’s best improv comedy groups take the spot light at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. See Super Project Lab, reprise their hit show "Meet Your ___________", Brainwaves Improv Comedy, Portland's longest running short form improv group, and The Liberators, extremely funny,

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Miracle Theatre Group **Photo credit: Russell Young**October 30 - November 15, 2009**Extended: Evening performance 11/15**Summary:Every fall, the dead are commemorated in a lively show of dance, music and theatre in Portland’s longest-running Day of the Dead celebration. This year, los muertos return singing old-time tunes that harken back to another era when times were tough and tradition was

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Shaking The Tree **Photo credit: David Kinder**October 23 - November 14, 2009Summary:Lucy and Terroba become stranded in Grandma's "creepy" old house, with phone lines dead and trees falling nearby because of the wind. It doesn't help that Grandma Minnie, who recently passed away, is staring at Lucy from her portrait on the wall and that Grandma's favorite chair seems to be alive.

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Imago TheatreOctober 15 - November 15, 2009Summary:A critical and audience hit, Imago's innovative No Exit is a fall-off-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller infused with comedic vaudevillian gags, bringing out the funny in the unexpected. Tim True, JoAnn Johnson, Maureen Porter, and Bryce Flint-Somerville battle, twist and topple on Jerry Mouawad's award-winning set that tips and sways with every step.

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The Montgomery Street Players **Photo credit: Drew Foster**October 30 - November 15, 2009Review by peanutduckA dedicated group of players with sharp comedic timing and the ability to traverse accents with ease; if only they were given something more than self-referential, self-deprecating playlets with which to flaunt their talents. Extended riffs on Shakespeare, Springsteen, and dramatic

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Oregon Children's Theatre Young ProfessionalsNovember 6 - 15, 2009Summary:The Gods are “stars” with personal baggage and vendettas! The mortals are very...mortal and flawed. When worlds collide, you get Dis/Troy! Fun and physical, this clever story is an accessible retelling of Homer’s eloquent classic, the Iliad.

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Playback TheaterNovember 7 & 14, 2009Summary:Playback's mission is to honor and illuminate the lives of individuals and communities by using theater, music and movement. Our intention is to bear witness to the differences among people and foster the universality of the human experience; thereby creating social awareness, and inherent connection that can lead to social action.

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Well Arts InstituteNovember 7 - 15, 2009Summary:Well Arts guides elderly residents in an engaging 10 week program of Memoir and Creative Writing, short story and poetry. Actors then present an on-site reading performance of the group's writing. Starring John Morrison, Ritah Parrish, Deirdre Atkinson, Steve Boss, Andrea White, Wendy Westerwelle, and writer-performer Vince Falco.

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Profile TheatreNovember 9, 2009Summary:A play from Profile's "One Night Stand" Horton Foote reading series.

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Portland PlayhouseOctober 9 - November 7, 2009 **Extended**Summary:Michael and Linda Waterman share 20 years of marriage and literary aspirations. When Linda learns she has cancer, she asks to read Michael's diaries; after all, he will read hers after she's gone. But inside his diaries are greater secrets than Linda anticipated; secrets that Michael claims are mere imagination.

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JANE a theater company / BrunDog ProductionsSeptember 24 - November 8, 2009TicketsSummary:Company follows the odyssey of Bobby, a turning-35-year-old bachelor who has been unable – or more to the point, unwilling - to walk down the aisle…until now. A series of quirky, hilarious, random vignettes follow the five of Bobby’s best couple friends and his relationship with his three current squeezes.

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Jewish Theatre CollaborativeNovember 2, 2009Summary (from The Mercury):Jewish Theatre Collaborative and Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies present a staged reading of David Ehrlich's stories, voiced by Michele Mariana and Nick Ferrucci. Ehrlich founded T'mol Shilshom, a haven for Jerusalem's queer community, and his fiction engages the process of self-discovery, Jewish and

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Blue Monkey Theater Co.October 28 - 31, 2009Summary:Based on the classic film by George Romero and John Russo, it’s the Halloween tradition that will not die! Seven terrified survivors are trapped in a remote farmhouse, cut off from help and surrounded by flesh-eating ghouls! Don’t miss our curtain raiser: Bloody Mary, by Roberto Aquiree-Sacasa.

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Northwest Children's Theater (Second Stage)October 30 - 31, 2009Summary:Get ready to scream! Presented by the talented students of Teens NW, a collection of four, newly commissioned tales of terror. Directed by Matthew Loehrke, this stylized homage to the spine-chilling fun of the The Twilight Zone will play for your late night Halloween scares and amusement.

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The Working Theatre CollectiveOctober 15 - 31, 2009Summary:A brother and a sister live, work, and drink in Portland. They get by. They have partners, they have jobs, they buy Street Roots. They drink Tecate tallboys and/or Manhattans. They get by. That is, until a forgotten secret from their past surfaces, and then, well, then things fall apart.

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New Century Players **Photo credit: Eric Griswold**October 17 - 31, 2009Summary:New Century Players presents The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project. A breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. Directed by Kevin Yell.

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Profile TheatreSeptember 30 - November 1, 2009Review by peanutduckHalfway through the audience started sniffling and, understandably, never stopped; a desperation, ache for home, for a Bountiful, quietly underscores every moment, from Mother Watt’s running to Ludie’s moon gazing to even Jessie Mae’s selfish martyrdom. Affecting performances by leads. Starscape magical. Bus station scene onward

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Portland Center Stage **Photo credit: Owen Carey**September 22 - November 1, 2009Review by peanutduckEven-keeled but that works as story focuses on the many faces of early 20th century America rather than one. Leif Norby, Susannah Mars lovely. Set’s intention puzzled, distracted - bare stage flanked by marble walls, industrial copper doors – meaning continually morphed - train station, tomb,

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Opera Theater OregonOctober 22 - 31, 2009Review by peanutduckPortlandia twist creates holey logic: Transfiguring Mack’s knife into guitar eliminates his threat to society (unless it’s upon the ears?), and motivations, logic unravel therefrom. Lyrics and music/arrangements raucous, inspired; lush Song of Redemption – HERE is the play. Stage cramped; mediocre ensemble pushes self-conscious

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Presented by Third Rail RepNovember 24, 2009Summary:We'll be showing high-definition live-captured presentations of William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Marianne Elliot. Set against a background of sexism, snobbery and a battle between the generations, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well turns fairytale logic on its head. It's a wondrous, bittersweet story.

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Brooklyn BayOctober 24, 2009Summary:A fundraiser for The Brooklyn Bay's upcoming season.

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Broadway Across America **Photo credit: Robert J. Saferstein**Steppenwolf Theatre CompanyOctober 20 - 25, 2009Review by peanutduckIn a narrow skeletal dollhouse burdened with weary dark furniture, the mother endeavors to eat her young. Tracy Letts’ acidic barbs, penetrating emotional violence, relentless examination of destructive self-hatred creates cliffhanger of dysfunctional family drama.

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Play after PlayOctober 3 - 25, 2009Summary:This is the story of Pang and Li, one is rich and the other poor. Each seeks happiness in his own way. Together they discover the true value of simple pleasures. Filled with music and movement, this sweet story will captivate children and adults alike.

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Artists Repertory Theatre **Photo credit: Owen Carey**September 22 - October 25, 2009Summary:A modern American farce about the road (usually) not taken. Becky’s life as a middle-aged mother, wife, and car dealership employee is not unpleasant, just mundane and predictable. When a wealthy customer assumes she is a widow – and Becky doesn’t correct him – she soon finds herself leading a double life.

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The Re-Theatre InstrumentOctober 2 - 24, 2009Summary:The last time Sam saw his brother Jake, they were carousing Brooklyn as one another's ultimate wing man. Years later Sam returns to Brooklyn to find the fun loving Jake has transformed into a studious born-again Jewish scholar. A family meditation on religious themes. A broken family on the brink.

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Lunacy StageworksOctober 2 - 24, 2009Summary:An original adaption of Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women, written by Elisabeth Harvey. It is often said that nothing influences us today so much as the follies and treasures of the ancient West: of old Greece, the Rome it became, the Europe it influenced, and the America it spilled into.

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Northwest Children's Theater **Photo credit: Annaliese Moyer**October 2 - 25, 2009Summary:Journey into the Hundred Aker Wood with Christopher Robin and his friends Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, and Roo. Beloved adventures come alive in this gentle adaptation about the magic of childhood imaginations, with daydreaming clouds, blustery days, and a party for everyone's silly old bear.

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Broadway Rose Theatre **Photo credit: Craig Mitchelldyer**September 24 - October 25, 2009Summary:Vern, Honey and Patsy, die-hard bingo players and friends, are thrown into a tizzy when a young stranger blows through their bingo hall and makes them confront their past. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and estranged friends reunite, sending

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Beaverton Civic TheatreOctober 8 - 25, 2009Summary:The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic offers up fussy, cantakerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati.

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World Stage TheatreOctober 9 - 23, 2009Summary:Jill Saunders’ just met the man of her dreams; everything about their relationship is like a fairy tale. But after five years of marital bliss the honeymoon seems to be over, leaving Jill thinking it was “Too Good To Be True”. An original play written and directed by Shalanda Sims.

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Stepping Out TheatreOctober 16 - 24, 2009Summary:An innovative and boundary pushing The Little Prince, dramatized by Rick Cummings and John Scoullar, from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic book, directed by 19-year-old Anna Finklestein. With the action taking place in, in front, and behind the seating, audience members must be prepared to fully immerse themselves in the performance.

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Blue Monkey Theater Co. **Photo credit: Jerry Rousselle**September 25 - October 18, 2009 **Extended?**Summary:The beauty of Shakespeare’s poetry and some of his most fascinating characters combine with a rollicking Polynesian beat in this sun-drenched fantasy adventure filled with music, dance, and magic. Performed at the Pacific Crest School Theater as part of Blue Monkey’s “Shake Up Shakespeare

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Action/Adventure TheatreLink to web series: FothingDebuts October 15, 2009Summary:Fothing is a new comedy web series from the creators and producers of the hit Portland, Oregon serialized theater show Fall of the House that follows the super-fictionalized creative team of Action/Adventure Theatre as they struggle and try to produce another season of their less-so-but-still-pretty-fictional stage

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New Moon ProductionsOctober 16, 2009Summary:A fascinating play that explores the inner lives, struggles, and triumphs of people with schizophrenia and their family members. Every word in the piece is taken, by permission, from hundreds of pages of blogs that were written over a period of years by people with schizophrenia or by their caregivers.

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CoHo ProductionsOctober 18, 2009Summary:CoHo Productions announces a fundraiser for its production of Hamlet, at CoHo Theater. In its attempt to raise some money for the set budget for this new adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous work, the event will have spirits sponsored by Oregon Natural Spirits, Winewood Vineyard and free food.

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Super Project Lab & The LiberatorsOctober 16 & 17, 2009Summary:Scary-Ass Improv Night offers two nights of improvised stories inspired entirely by audience members’ recollections of frightening characters from their past, either imagined or real, living or dead. Audience members provide a few alarming details, disturbing quirks, or skin-crawling anecdotes that the improvisers use to create

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Urban Adventures & Northwest Classical Theatre Co. **Photo credit: Ed Wortman**October 13 - 18, 2009Summary:Written, performed by Sharon Wood Wortman. A one-bridge-after-another multimedia event involving narrow escapes, invisible disabilities. The WRBs (Willamette River Bridges) take on human characteristics via footage filmed July 10, 2009, during a climb through the arch ribs and up to

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Portland Theater WorksOctober 19, 2009Summary:Journeys of hope. A Jewish-American GI is given the gift of the last shred of hope when he liberates a Dachau prisoner. A hundred years later, a theatre director rehearses a new play commemorating Dachau but forgets how to hope when she learns she has a fatal disease.

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Artists Repertory TheatreOctober 17, 2009, 2pm$10Summary:Reading of Steven Dietz’s new play. Yankee Tavern is a dramatic thriller set in a crumbling tavern in New York. A young couple is caught in a web of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks, when, in an instant, outlandish hypothesis becomes dangerous reality as critical facts continue to emerge.

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The Missoula Oblongota hosted by The Working Theatre CollectiveOctober 6, 2009Summary:This Missoula-based experimental company tours its highly DIY and audience interactive show, The Moon, The Raccoon, and the Hot Air Balloon to our new space. Yes! UPS features music written by WTC’s own Nate Harpel.

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New Century PlayersOctober 12, 2009Summary:New Century Players, in partnership with the Tectonic Theater Project, will premiere a compelling epilogue to The Laramie Project. Only five theater companies in Oregon will be a part of this national event. New Century Players is the only Oregon theater company to be a Partner of The Epilogue.

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Readers Theatre RepertoryOctober 9 & 10, 2009Summary:"The violence all takes place in the interior," says Selvitella. "In the heart of this grieving woman, and to her hopes. To me, that makes the story all the more painful, and the unexpected outcome even more interesting." The cast includes Tim Jaeger and Elizabeth Young, among others.

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University of PortlandOctober 7 - 15, 2009Summary:Four high society couples arrive at the anniversary party of Charlie and Myra Brock. However, the servants are gone, the hostess is missing and Charlie is lying upstairs with an accidental gunshot wound to the earlobe. High-voltage hilarity ensues as the friends try frantically to protect their host and themselves.

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Bag & Baggage ProductionsSeptember 23 - October 11, 2009Review by peanutduckMarion Rossi’s stoop-shouldered Willy Loman commands the stage admirably; unfortunately, a subtle whininess pervades production, and only a small-scale portrait of a pathetic man is created, blocking large-scale tragic theme of deceptive American Dream. The Woman’s school age appearance lends distracting connotations;

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Theatre Vertigo **Photo credit: Elizabeth Eve**September 11 - October 10, 2009Review by peanutduckScript strains unsuccessfully to place idealism story into larger historical context; heavy-handed misdirection shoves actors into one-dimensional girdles, relentlessly forces them to face audience and emote; tomboy Ruby’s costume glaringly tidy. Amidst this mess, Gary Norman and JR Wickman,

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Artists Repertory Theatre **Photo credit: Owen Carey**September 8 - October 11, 2009Review by peanutduck**Spoiler alert*In its lush Technicolor the production lingers, culminating in this: The father (Michael Fisher-Welsh), family man and profiteer in war manufacture, denies, justifies, then finally, acknowledges his fatal complicity. Abruptly, it penetrates: we are held by such persons - strong,

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Lakewood TheatreSeptember 11 - October 18, 2009

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Stumptown StagesOctober 2 - 17, 2009Review by peanutduckTrue to story, only star is Cassie (Lisa Schale), her impassioned “The Music and the Mirror” a show-stopper. Ensemble’s spirit whole-hearted, nary an ego in sight; and strongest in group numbers, notably “At the Ballet.” Individually, acting, vocals weak; show drags, nail-biting audition angst absent. Cavernous space grossly distorts sound.

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Magenta Theater **Photo credit: Bill Roberts**October 1 - 17, 2009Summary:Three con men try to recapture a lost doll filled with drugs. They must convince Susy, who is blind, that she is in danger and her husband is somehow involved. With the help of a girl, Susy learns that things are not as they seem, but is it too late?

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Oregon Cultural TrustOctober 1 - 8, 2009Okay, it's really a week. It's all culture all the time as the Oregon Cultural Trust presents a statewide celebration of Oregon. The Oregon Day of Culture website, www.oregondayofculture.org, lists 391 events were posted in 248 locations from Ashland to Astoria, Boardman to Baker City, Corvallis to Coos Bay, Eugene to Government Camp, Portland to

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by Andrea StolowitzOctober 2, 20097pm @ Reed Student UnionFree!Summary:Tales of Doomed Love is a crazy compelling look at the other side of some of our favorite love stories. Part guessing game, part tragedy, the evening is sure to delight.

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Stephen LiskOctober 2 - 4, 2009Summary:After finding out his ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his child, the seemingly hopeless drug addict Wendell Freeze decides to party one last time before embarking on fatherhood. However his celebration is disrupted when God visits Wendell in his tiny Hollywood apartment to challenge him in a game of football.

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defunkt theatre **Photo credit: Grace Carter**August 28 - October 3, 2009Review by peanutduckSuch a loose-narrative descent into Kafka’s nightmare requires precise intentions. Instead, this translation of literal and figurative journeys over treacherous country roads only tangles into impenetrable knot. Production felt still in playing-with-ideas stage; acting company insecure; stage pictures

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Our Shoes are Red/TASO/IFCC **Photo credit: Matt Montero**September 11 - October 3, 2009Review by peanutduckWhite-garbed virginity, a singled-minded, terrorized ensemble that emanates danger in a footfall, encounters a tempter dripping verbal and physical carnality, who attracts while simultaneously repulsing. Even with its flaws – a lackluster Ursula and improbable (as staged) collusion – the

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Public PlayhouseSeptember 11 - October 3, 2009Review by peanutduckInspired by Tom Lehrer’s 50’s/60’s era satire, yet there’s something for all generations, from "New Math" to "Masochism Tango." Evening’s performances uneven, but Russ Cowan and James Sharinghousen consistently charm. Wanted more polish, something to carry the show visually in addition to ensemble’s enthusiasm. Enjoying varicolored

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Rave in the NaveSeptember 26, 2009Summary:In this one-woman musical comedy created and performed by Joan Freed, you'll meet over a dozen unique characters and hear amusing anecdotes about chocolate, like how M&M candies came to be, the surprising origins of the chocolate chip cookie, and a courtroom drama of chocolate on trial for its sins.

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by Gretchen IcenogleSeptember 22, 2009 7pm@ CoHo TheaterFree!Summary:A script-in-progress by Gretchen Icenogle. It borrows its structure from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, a linked series of intimate encounters, but where Schnitzler's characters reached across barriers of class and sensibility, characters in The Chain transgress the boundaries that divide the plant, animal, and celestial

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Theatre Vertigo September 21, 2009Summary (from the DPS website):"Bobbie drops the pages from his novel into the Hudson River. They tell the story of three sisters: Sylvia, a reporter, Barbara, an agoraphobe (played by a man in drag), and Alice, a scientist with a plan to isolate and eliminate the gene for love."

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Portland Theatre WorksSeptember 21, 2009Free!Summary:Kurt and Laura want to get married, maybe, but first have to agree on how and where. And get pregnant. With the aid of a Catholic priest, whose parish is being sold in a bankruptcy proceeding. And the creepy assistant pastor with his life-size statue of Pope John Paul, II.

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CoHo ProductionsSeptember 21 & 28, 2009Pay-what-you-willSummary:The play focuses on the strange reality Slim and Cavale have created, as they riff on ideas of desire, freedom and the mythological power of rock stars. Discordant, jagged, and combustible, the poetry in the howling dialogue is thick with guilt and trauma. Staged reading, directed by Philip Cuomo.

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