French Moroccan author and director Mohamed El Khatib Zirlib Collective Amid all the spectacle and exhibition of TBA, the description of French Moroccan author and director Mohamed El Khatib’s performance stood out to me for its dry simplicity. The promotional material made no mention of stagecraft or costumes or frenetic display. This was a lecture-performance […]
Katie Pelletier
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It’s Hard to Make it in Hollywood. It’s Harder if You Aren’t Human.
From an Orange is the New Black Writer, Trevor Is a Poignant, Funny Account of a Showbiz Chimp
From an Orange is the New Black writer, Trevor is a poignant, funny account of a showbiz chimp.
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TBA Review: Disco Nostalgia and Wildwood Fantasies in Meg Wolfe’s New Faithful Disco
“A queer-love power trio.” PICA via Flickr Pulsing with disco nostalgia and wildwood fantasies, Meg Wolfe’s PICA co-commissioned TBA:16 piece New Faithful Disco made its Portland debut at the Winningstad Theatre this weekend. The modern dance performance was a single, uninterrupted work with curiously contrasting motifs and a compelling musical framework—who doesn’t love a little […]
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TBA Review: Narcissister’s Sublime, Ab Fab-Approved Spectacle
Narcissister sheds identities like Russian dolls. Briana Cerezo In a 2012 episode of the British sitcom, Absolutely Fabulous, Edina, hoping to impress an American actor, suggests that she and her aging scenester friend Patsy take him to clubs to see Narcissister: “She’s a kind of crazy disco performance artist; she pulls things out of her […]
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In The Maids, Jean Genet’s Social Critique Is Still Relevant
The work of Jean Genet—famous critic of the bourgeoisie—has resurfaced just in time. DAVID KINDER With frustrations over high rents and a pervasive suspicion that Portland is turning into a mere amusement park for the young and wealthy, the work of Jean Genet—famous critic of the bourgeoisie—has resurfaced just in time. Public Citizen Theatre’s inaugural […]
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The Maids: Existential Desperation with a Dash of Dark Humor
Genet’s Social Critique Is Still Relevant in Public Citizen Theatre’s Debut
Genet’s social critique is still relevant in Public Citizen Theatre’s debut.
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In Francesca, Isabella, Margarita, A Pageant of Cringe-Comedy Antics at Imago Theatre
The first time I watched It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the urging of a friend, I didn’t like it. I probably wouldn’t have watched it again, but I found myself home with the flu and nothing else to stream, so I gave it another go. I was glad I did: After a few more […]
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Grown-Up Toddlers & Tiaras in Francesca, Isabella, Margarita
A Pageant of Cringe-Comedy Antics at Imago Theatre
A pageant of cringe-comedy antics at Imago Theatre.
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Peter and the Starcatcher‘s Cross-Dressing Mermaids and Stardust
Portland Playhouse Takes on Peter Pan—with Less Flying and More Swashbuckling!
Peter and the Starcatcher‘s cross-dressing mermaids and stardust.
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At Theatre Vertigo, Love and Information is Like Channel-Surfing While Saturating Your Brain With Social Media Posts
Theatre Vertigo’s latest, Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, is awash with windows into a variety of daily human dramas. GARY NORMAN A guilty pleasure of mine after a long day is to flip through television programs while browsing something like Facebook or Instagram, limited only by the number of screens I can assemble. Theatre Vertigo’s […]
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Love and Information in the Digital Age
Theatre Vertigo’s Got Some Answers
A GUILTY PLEASURE of mine after a long day is to flip through television programs while browsing something like Facebook or Instagram, limited only by the number of screens I can assemble. Theatre Vertigo’s latest production, Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, is a little like this: awash with windows into a variety of daily human […]
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The Troubling Familiarity of Mothers and Sons
Artist Repertory Theatre Reboots Terrance McNally—but Why?
THERE’S A troubling sense of the all-too-familiar in Artist Repertory Theatre’s adaptation of Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-nominated Mothers and Sons. A promising young man, Andre, has died of AIDS. His family and friends are devastated. His mother, an unfulfilled, unhappy woman, has never accepted her son’s identity as a gay man, and, unable to let […]