Opening This Week
A Gay Christmas Carol
The Triangle Theatre's take on Dicken's Xmas ghost story. TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS! AT THEATER! THEATRE!, 3430 SE Belmont St, 239-5919, Thur-Sat, 7:30 pm, through Dec 23, Call for prices
One Week Only
Can We Dance
Staged reading of the play by Allison Bonner that takes on nothing less than the history of women. ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATER, 1516 SW Alder St, 241-1278, Mon, 7 pm, $5
Cinderella
A puppetry version of the fairy tale about mean stepsisters and magic shoes. TEARS OF JOY THEATRE, 248-0557, Sat-Sun, call for ticket prices
Closing This Week
The Tell-Tale Heart
Poe's horrific tale adapted to puppetry. TEARS OF JOY THEATRE, 248-0557, Sat, 8 pm, $10
Current Runs
Ain't Misbehavin'
The musical about the life and songs of jazz musician Fats Waller. ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATER, 1516 SW Alder St, 241-1278, Sun 7 pm, Tues-Thurs 7 pm, through Dec 17, $13.50
Annie
Yet another production of the popular musical. LAKEWOOD THEATRE COMPANY AT LAKEWOOD THEATER FOR THE ARTS, 368 S State St., 635-3901, Thur-Sat 8 pm Sun 7 pm, through Dec 17, $18-20
* Diabolical Experiments
The Brody Theater improv group carries on with a pair of theatrical pieces generated by audience suggestions. BRODY THEATER, 1904 NW 27th Ave, 224-0688, Fri-Sat, 8 pm, through Dec 2, $8
Guys and Dolls
The musical about Damon Runyon's band of New York criminal eccentrics. AMERICAN HERITAGE THEATER PROJECT, AT THE MULTNOMAH ARTS CENTER, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, 245-3642, Fri-Sat, 8 pm, Sun, 2 pm, Call for prices
I love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
A musical paean to the joys of romance, now moved to the World Trade Center Auditorium, 121 SW Salmon. TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS! AT THEATER! THEATRE!, 3430 SE Belmont St, 239-5919, Fri-Sat, through Dec 10, Call for ticket prices
* Interrupt---Interactive Hypermedia
A complex hybrid of man, machine, technology, performance space, stationary art, and collaboration across art forms. LIMINAL, 2808 NE MLK jr Blvd #13, 229-3979, Thur-Sat, every 10 minutes from 8-10 pm, through Dec 3, $6-15
Old Times
Harold Pinter's play about two men and a woman discussing their pasts. PAULA PRODUCTIONS, AT THE JACK OAKES THEATER, 232 NE Lincoln St, Hillsboro, 640-9393, Thurs-Sat, 8 pm, through Dec 10, $8
Steel Magnolias
Maggie Theater Company mounts this tale of five Southern ladies and the daughter with the deadly disease. FIREHOUSE THEATER, 1436 SW Montgomery St, 708-8554, Fri-Sat, 8 pm, Sun, 2 pm, through Dec 9, $12
Tales of Antiquity
An evening of unusual short dramatic sketches and speeches, by Sam Wallin. 23 PRODUCTIONS AT THE BACK DOOR THEATER, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm, $7
* The Imaginary Invalid
The company's latest production, an adaptation of Moliere's 1673 play about medical fraud, is consistent with both Imago's bold innovations and its newfound exploration of what can be called-for want of a better phrase-traditional literary theater. Director Jerry Mouawad, working from John Wood's translation, has set the play in a Lebanese household in '80s New York City where Argan (Mouawad) provides the livelihood for numerous quakes with his hypochondriac complaints. IMAGO THEATER, 17 SE 8th Ave, 231-9581, Thurs, 7:30, Fri-Sat, 8 pm, through Dec 16, $16-18
The Tinker's Wedding and In the Shadow of the Glen
Paula Productions commences its 14th season with two short plays by John Millington Synge, the first about a wedding day squabble among traveling gypsies, the second a Ryan's Daughter style tale of a May-September marriage. PAULA PRODUCTIONS, AT THE JACK OAKES THEATER, 232 NE Lincoln St, 640-9393, Fri-Sun, 8 pm, through Dec 3, $10
Tony 'n Tina's Wedding
The interactive comedy about a chaotic wedding ceremony. HEY CITY, AT THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH, 1011 SW 12th Ave, 790-2787, Wed-Fri, 7 pm, Sat, 5 and 8:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, $43.50-65.50
Whatnot
An interactive play featuring masks, puppetry, and dance. OTHER HAND PRODUCTIONS AT THE HOPE THEATER, 1807 NE 39th, 282-7048, Sat, 11 pm, $10
