Readers Theatre Repertory
October 9 & 10, 2009
Summary:
"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.
Showing posts with label Readers Theatre Repertory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Readers Theatre Repertory. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Five Actors, Five Plays
Readers Theatre Repertory
May 15 & 16, 2009
Summary:
The five plays range from sweet and sad, to political, to dark, all the way to hilarious and absurd. Director Wendy Wilcox: "These are really smart stories, with important ideas and sassy wordplay. Luckily, actors in Portland jump at the chance to create something meaningful in a compressed time frame.”
May 15 & 16, 2009
Summary:
The five plays range from sweet and sad, to political, to dark, all the way to hilarious and absurd. Director Wendy Wilcox: "These are really smart stories, with important ideas and sassy wordplay. Luckily, actors in Portland jump at the chance to create something meaningful in a compressed time frame.”
Monday, April 06, 2009
Fresh Northwest
Readers Theatre Rep
April 10 & 11, 2009
Summary:
April is "originals month." This year the company wanted to focus on regional playwrights; an extensive call for entries attracted work from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and other locales. Pete and Petey by Gary Rogowski and Little Vixens by Dalene Young will be directed by David Berkson and Bob Martin, respectively.
April 10 & 11, 2009
Summary:
April is "originals month." This year the company wanted to focus on regional playwrights; an extensive call for entries attracted work from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and other locales. Pete and Petey by Gary Rogowski and Little Vixens by Dalene Young will be directed by David Berkson and Bob Martin, respectively.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
A Bit of Dublin Theatre
Readers Theatre Rep
March 13 & 14, 2009
Summary:
Mary McDonald-Lewis discovered Bewley's Café Theatre, RTR’s sister company, online "when I kept reading about all of their great shows," she says. A correspondence began, and now Readers Theatre Rep is staging two Bewley Café shows, Fred and Jane, by Sebastian Barry, and So Long, Sleeping Beauty, by Isobel Mahon.
March 13 & 14, 2009
Summary:
Mary McDonald-Lewis discovered Bewley's Café Theatre, RTR’s sister company, online "when I kept reading about all of their great shows," she says. A correspondence began, and now Readers Theatre Rep is staging two Bewley Café shows, Fred and Jane, by Sebastian Barry, and So Long, Sleeping Beauty, by Isobel Mahon.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Take this Valentine and Shove It
Readers Theatre Rep
February 13 & 14, 2009
Summary:
The company is staging The Maker of Dreams by Oliphant Down and Abstinence by Lanford Wilson. Mary McDonald-Lewis, director, will serve as "your cynical host" for the production. “The show won't be sweet like a Valentine treat,” she says. "But more like the very best chocolate -- dark, and bitter."
February 13 & 14, 2009
Summary:
The company is staging The Maker of Dreams by Oliphant Down and Abstinence by Lanford Wilson. Mary McDonald-Lewis, director, will serve as "your cynical host" for the production. “The show won't be sweet like a Valentine treat,” she says. "But more like the very best chocolate -- dark, and bitter."
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
F.M., and Third and Oak: The Laundromat
Readers Theatre Repertory
January 16 - 17, 2009
Summary:
F.M. by Romulus Linney: The tale of a creative writing class on a small campus is forever altered when a student’s work reveals a brilliant madness. Third and Oak: The Laundromat by Marsha Norman: Two strangers come to a better understanding of how to deal with life’s isolation and rejection.
January 16 - 17, 2009
Summary:
F.M. by Romulus Linney: The tale of a creative writing class on a small campus is forever altered when a student’s work reveals a brilliant madness. Third and Oak: The Laundromat by Marsha Norman: Two strangers come to a better understanding of how to deal with life’s isolation and rejection.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The Trials of Shylock
Readers Theatre Rep
November 14 & 15, 2008
Summary:
Readers Theatre Repertory distills Shakespeare's polemical play The Merchant of Venice to its darkest essence: the trial scene, Act IV, Scene 1. Audiences are still shocked as Shakespeare destroys the medieval, anti-Semitic stereotype of the Jewish moneylender in Shylock: neither hero nor villain, but a target of bigotry and hatred.
November 14 & 15, 2008
Summary:
Readers Theatre Repertory distills Shakespeare's polemical play The Merchant of Venice to its darkest essence: the trial scene, Act IV, Scene 1. Audiences are still shocked as Shakespeare destroys the medieval, anti-Semitic stereotype of the Jewish moneylender in Shylock: neither hero nor villain, but a target of bigotry and hatred.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Women are Funny That Way
Readers Theatre Repertory
October 10 & 11, 2008
Summary:
RTR battles the onset of the darker months with Women are Funny That Way, featuring Tattoo Girl, by Naomi Iizuka, Anything for You by Cathy Celesia, and a monologue, Audition, by Jane Martin from Talking With." Directed by Wendy Wilcox. "This is humor with a sharp heart; comedy with soul."
October 10 & 11, 2008
Summary:
RTR battles the onset of the darker months with Women are Funny That Way, featuring Tattoo Girl, by Naomi Iizuka, Anything for You by Cathy Celesia, and a monologue, Audition, by Jane Martin from Talking With." Directed by Wendy Wilcox. "This is humor with a sharp heart; comedy with soul."
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Eleemosynary
Readers Theatre Repertory
September 12 & 13, 2008
Review by The Mad Hatter
Not real life, but real drama. Dramatic relationship reads well on stage. Well acted, well read, but rather one note. Missing the tender moments that even the worst mother daughter relationships have. Itʼs a joy to see a rarely performed piece by great American playwright. Deserves a fully staged production.
September 12 & 13, 2008
Review by The Mad Hatter
Not real life, but real drama. Dramatic relationship reads well on stage. Well acted, well read, but rather one note. Missing the tender moments that even the worst mother daughter relationships have. Itʼs a joy to see a rarely performed piece by great American playwright. Deserves a fully staged production.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
The Terrorists Have Miss Connecticut and Other Stories
April 11 - 12, 2008
Summary:
April is traditionally "first works" month at Readers Theatre Rep. This year the company is staging its first student-written production of one-act plays. The Terrorists Have Miss Connecticut by Kathleen Grotzinger, All in Good Luck by Erica Deffebach, and Fake by Katie George will be mounted, directed by David Berkson.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A Song of Ireland
Reader's Theatre Rep
March 14-15, 2008
Summary:
A Galway Girl by Geraldine Aron, O'Flaherty VC by George Bernard Shaw and Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge will be presented. Mary McDonald-Lewis says the three plays make up "a chorus, in a way, with the central themes of what it means to be Irish repeating themselves.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Word for Word
Reader's Theatre Repertory
January 11 - 12, 2008
Summary:
The evening is a performance of three of Raymond Carver's best short stories: Collectors, Intimacy and A Small, Good Thing. In classic Carver style, unremarkable characters -- a fat vacuum cleaner salesman, a suburban mother, a boy about to celebrate his 8th birthday party -- engage in struggles remarkably funny and heartbreaking.
January 11 - 12, 2008
Summary:
The evening is a performance of three of Raymond Carver's best short stories: Collectors, Intimacy and A Small, Good Thing. In classic Carver style, unremarkable characters -- a fat vacuum cleaner salesman, a suburban mother, a boy about to celebrate his 8th birthday party -- engage in struggles remarkably funny and heartbreaking.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Address Unknown
Readers Theatre Repertory
Posted by Frenchglen April 21; closes April 29
Fascism in a crowd of two. RTR’s production explores what a mass movement of psychosis and violence feels like at the microscopic level – filtered through your best friend. When is that first day when something changes? Dramatic structure of solo letter-reading somewhat limits full engagement. Potential for deeper, slower story.
Posted by Frenchglen April 21; closes April 29
Fascism in a crowd of two. RTR’s production explores what a mass movement of psychosis and violence feels like at the microscopic level – filtered through your best friend. When is that first day when something changes? Dramatic structure of solo letter-reading somewhat limits full engagement. Potential for deeper, slower story.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Ireland: Bloody Beautiful
Readers Theatre Repertory
Posted by Frenchglen March 10, 2007
After some fiddle and verse by the company, Kevin Kelleher and Tom Nabhan launched into Thomas McLaughlin’s lean, devious one act, “Greatest Hits”, in which two hard men in Northern Ireland ravel and unravel their own brand of “troubles”. RTR’s bare bones format keeps focus on what words can do.
Posted by Frenchglen March 10, 2007
After some fiddle and verse by the company, Kevin Kelleher and Tom Nabhan launched into Thomas McLaughlin’s lean, devious one act, “Greatest Hits”, in which two hard men in Northern Ireland ravel and unravel their own brand of “troubles”. RTR’s bare bones format keeps focus on what words can do.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
B Sides
Readers Theatre Repertory
Posted by Frenchglen November 11, 2006
Enjoyable evening of four short pieces offered warm, indoor alternative to endless rain outside. Format supports variety, speed, experimentation, and welcome interaction with audience members. There was absurdism with TROTSKY, wise-cracking indirection about SKRONKING, a brutal stopover in EUKIAH, and subdued rest among the PETUNIAS. Setting dry, but material lush.
Posted by Frenchglen November 11, 2006
Enjoyable evening of four short pieces offered warm, indoor alternative to endless rain outside. Format supports variety, speed, experimentation, and welcome interaction with audience members. There was absurdism with TROTSKY, wise-cracking indirection about SKRONKING, a brutal stopover in EUKIAH, and subdued rest among the PETUNIAS. Setting dry, but material lush.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Goodbye Oscar
Readers Theatre Repertory
Theatre Vertigo
Insight Out Theatre Collective
November 9, 2005 (one reading only)
To be honest, I’m not fond of this quicksand script nor the weak-brewed genre of readers theatre, both out-of-place in noisy PNCA gallery environs. That said, moments when characters literally touched each other were moments that touched me — without words — completely to credit of Neal Starbird, Wade McCollum, James Sharinghousen.
Theatre Vertigo
Insight Out Theatre Collective
November 9, 2005 (one reading only)
To be honest, I’m not fond of this quicksand script nor the weak-brewed genre of readers theatre, both out-of-place in noisy PNCA gallery environs. That said, moments when characters literally touched each other were moments that touched me — without words — completely to credit of Neal Starbird, Wade McCollum, James Sharinghousen.
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