The Santaland Diaries
This event is in the past
Tuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Continues through Dec. 24 2016
Ellyn Bye Studio at the Armory
Pearl District (Portland)
$25
I’ll never forget stumbling onto David Sedaris reading The Santaland Diaries aloud on an NPR segment originally recorded in 1992. No one can replicate Sedaris, and fortunately, Darius Pierce, who plays Sedaris’ elf alter-ego Crumpet in Portland Center Stage’s staged version of the essay, doesn’t imitate Sedaris, but makes the iconic material his own in a magnanimous holiday performance. If you HAVE to attend a holiday play your entire NPR-subsidizing family will enjoy, this one’s not a bad option. MEGAN BURBANK