Water By The Spoonful David Kinder Rotating repertory—when a theater puts on two different plays on an alternating schedule—is no joke, and Profile Theatre’s latest approach, pairing Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful and The Happiest Song Plays Last, is commendably ambitious—actors are double-cast in both plays, and there’s even a dual-purpose set. Last […]
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When It Comes to Sexual Assault and Harassment, The Dam’s Breaking
Make Sure It Stays That Way. Listen to Women.
Make sure it stays that way. Listen to women.
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Rotating Repertory Makes Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Work Sing
The Latest in Profile Theatre’s Season Dedicated to the Playwright is Its Most Ambitious Production Yet
The latest in Profile Theatre’s season dedicated to the playwright is its most ambitious production yet.
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Chris Coleman is Leaving Portland Center Stage
PCS’ production of Fun Home Patrick Weishampel / Blankeye.TV Portland Center Stage’s artistic director of 17 years, Chris Coleman, is out. He’s headed to a new job in Denver. Here’s an excerpt from PCS’ press release sent out today: Ted Austin, board chair for Portland Center Stage at The Armory, announced today that Artistic Director […]
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Wordstock 2017: Huge Crowds Persist, But Smart Writers Make Everything Better
Danez Smith, Morgan Parker, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Béalleka at the Winningstad Theatre MB At this year’s festival, some of Wordstock’s bugs still seemed yet to be squashed: I’ve argued in the past that a crowded book festival is a good problem to have, but increasingly it just seems like a problem at Wordstock. This […]
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BPM Will Fuck You Up. Watch It Anyway.
France’s Oscar contender for Best Foreign Language Film, BPM, fucked me up for days after I saw it. But I’m glad I did—it’s a movie about AIDS activism that avoids many of the tropes that usually appear in depictions of HIV and AIDS. In other words, it’s the kind of movie that wouldn’t get made […]
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The Dam’s Breaking. Make Sure It Stays Broken By Listening to Women
franckreporter / Getty This week, we’re in brave new world where sexual harassment and assault allegations are suddenly met with business consequences, from Weinstein to Spacey to Louis C.K. It’s amazing. And yet unpack it the tiniest bit, and you realize that the real consequences begin when primarily white, super famous women with huge social […]
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Last Night’s Democratic Wins Could Be Huge for Reproductive Rights
Me, believing in democracy again. Angelo Cavalli / Getty For a brief, beautiful window last night, Twitter was good again, as push notifications brought us news of one Democratic victory after another—Chris Christie and anti-trans bigots are out! Medicaid and Danica Roem are in! And in Washington State, Democrats regained control of their state legislature […]
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BPM Is the Kind of Movie That Wouldn’t Get Made in America
It’ll Fuck You Up. Watch It Anyway.
It’ll fuck you up. Watch it anyway.
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Open Enrollment for Obamacare Is Here, Whatever the “President” May Say About It
Don’t be alarmed if this is not what healthcare.gov actually looks like. YinYang / Getty Despite the best efforts of the Trump administration, the Affordable Care Act hasn’t been repealed, and this week, open enrollment begins for health care plans through the ACA. I’m telling you because the government isn’t going to: Among other insidious […]
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With Nous, On Va Danser, Portland Choreographer Nancy Ellis Breaks Through the Boys’ Club of Dance
CHELSEA PETRAKIS When I sit down with Portland dancer and choreographer Nancy Ellis, I already know we have something in common. Though we’ve never met before, we went to the same small women’s college in western Massachusetts 16 years apart, and the first thing we talk about over coffee at Heart on East Burnside is […]
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The Tell Tale Tooth: Scared Straight
CREDIT:CSA IMAGES/PRINTSTOCK COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES [Editor’s Note: Halloween is a time for horrors… but the most horrifying experiences are often those that occur in every day life. Like for example, the horror of dentistry. Get ready to shake in terror upon reading this true life tale of dental-related horror in an anthology we like […]