Justin Sanders

Naked Boys Singing Triangle Productions Through July 21 They don’t waste any time, these boys. Within the first 30 seconds of the first song of this skin-filled revue, you will get what you paid to see: birthday suits. It’s a liberating experience, to say the least. Some of the men (there are seven all together) […]

The Justice Project Sojurn Theater Through July 8 After finding all the entrances locked at the Gus Solomon Courthouse–a fitting venue for a play called The Justice Project–my friend and I neglected to take the hint and found a little side door through which we could slip inside. We wove our way through a maze […]

Dance: The Use of Rumor and Silence Performance Works Northwest 777-1907 Through June 30 I have a special affinity for the space at Performance Works Northwest. It somehow manages to be simultaneously spacious and intimate. The curved ceiling and stark, white walls resemble a miniature airplane hanger, but the aura of the place is completely […]

Oklahoma Oklahoma (the state) Aah, Oklahoma! The lush, pioneer-tinged score and dance numbers; the epic rivalry between Curly and Jud as they battle to see who will take Laurey Williams to the social; and of course those celebrated, go-America lyrics: “Oklahoma, Ev’ry night my honey lamb and I / Sit alone and talk and watch […]

Mr. Bundy Back Door Theatre 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd Through June 9 “Two years ago, backstage… in a different theater, I found this play after perusing the forlorn pile of plays that said theater had been considering for their next season but… had decided to pass on… I read it, and I cried.” From the […]

The Bald Soprano Jack Oakes Theater Through June 2 Communication falls by the wayside in this extremely low-budget, all-female production of Ionesco’s famous, one-act play. The script, which is surreal enough on a textual level, is made more so by the time slot for this show (11:30 pm) and the in-your-face set, which merges with […]

The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador Defunkt Theatre Through June 9 Defunkt’s current production of Charles Mee’s The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador observes a group of upperclass bourgeois pricks as they schmooze over luncheon in an El Salvadorian resort while political violence rages outside in the street. Servants enter to […]

King Lear Johnny Stallings Lewis and Clark College Tues, April 24 It is remarkably easy to stage a poor production of King Lear. Even if the actors can find a way to effectively portray the complex character of Lear, it takes an incredibly skilled director to organize those roles into a cohesive unit that properly […]

The Weir Artists Repertory Theatre Through April 29 Sometimes it seems like the big ticket musical with a movie-sized budget is the only kind of theater that makes money anymore. Occasionally more introspective plays slip through the cracks, but they almost always seem to have some sort of shock-value hook. Example: Paula Vogel’s How I […]

No Can Do Imago Theatre, 231-9581 17 SE 8th Ave. I don’t get it. I know, I know, that’s what the unenlightened say. It’s what hillbillies say about Shakespeare, and it’s what football players say about modern art. It’s what anybody with a brain in their head says about football. It’s a phrase that has […]

The Greyhound Bus Station 550 NW 6th Ave Friday, March 14, 2001 On the outskirts of downtown Portland, beyond bustling Burnside, lies a long, dilapidated brick building. It’s not pretty to look at, and a lot of scary people wander near its corroded walls. But if you’re one of the brave, and you can muster […]