Lakewood Theatre Co.
December 5 - 19, 2009
Summary:
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.
Showing posts with label New Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Work. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
The Lucky Woman
The Working Theatre Collective
December 3 - 19, 2009
Summary:
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.
December 3 - 19, 2009
Summary:
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.
Tiger Lilly and Sunny Lu
Do Jump!November 28 - January 3, 2010
Summary:
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.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Order of Ostara & That Party Crashin’ Pervert
by Charles Augustus Steen, III
November 12 - 22, 2009
Summary:
I couldn't find much info on the play but PDX Pipeline has an interesting blurb about it.
November 12 - 22, 2009
Summary:
I couldn't find much info on the play but PDX Pipeline has an interesting blurb about it.
Everyone Who Looks Like You
Hand2Mouth TheatreNovember 6 - 22, 2009
Review by peanutduck
Who 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) familial exploration?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Canta y no llores (Sing and Don't Cry)
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 one of the few things folks could call their own.
Stay for the Cake
The Montgomery Street Players **Photo credit: Drew Foster**October 30 - November 15, 2009
Review by peanutduck
A 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 technique are initially funny – but aren't enough to sustain.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Twilight Tales
Northwest Children's Theater (Second Stage)
October 30 - 31, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 30 - 31, 2009
Summary:
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.
A Falling Apart Sort of Thing: A Ghost Story
The Working Theatre Collective
October 15 - 31, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 15 - 31, 2009
Summary:
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.
The Beggar's Opera
Opera Theater Oregon
October 22 - 31, 2009
Review by peanutduck
Portlandia 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 theatricality. Watch Leah Yorkston, Bobby Jackson.
October 22 - 31, 2009
Review by peanutduck
Portlandia 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 theatricality. Watch Leah Yorkston, Bobby Jackson.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Teeth of the Sons
The Re-Theatre Instrument
October 2 - 24, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 2 - 24, 2009
Summary:
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.
The Women of Troy
Lunacy Stageworks
October 2 - 24, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 2 - 24, 2009
Summary:
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.
Too Good To Be True
World Stage Theatre
October 9 - 23, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 9 - 23, 2009
Summary:
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.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Found Lives
New Moon Productions
October 16, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 16, 2009
Summary:
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.
The Bridge Lady
Urban Adventures & Northwest Classical Theatre Co. **Photo credit: Ed Wortman**October 13 - 18, 2009
Summary:
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 Fremont’s two-foot wide catwalk for a flagpole look at Portland.
The Garden of Monsters
Portland Theater Works
October 19, 2009
Summary:
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.
October 19, 2009
Summary:
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.
Yankee Tavern
Artists Repertory Theatre
October 17, 2009, 2pm
$10
Summary:
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.
October 17, 2009, 2pm
$10
Summary:
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.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tales of Doomed Love
by Andrea Stolowitz
October 2, 2009
7pm @ Reed Student Union
Free!
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.
October 2, 2009
7pm @ Reed Student Union
Free!
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.
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Chain
by Gretchen Icenogle
September 22, 2009 7pm
@ CoHo Theater
Free!
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 kingdoms. Talkback afterwards.
September 22, 2009 7pm
@ CoHo Theater
Free!
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 kingdoms. Talkback afterwards.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Nursing Virgin
Portland Theatre Works
September 21, 2009
Free!
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.
September 21, 2009
Free!
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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