Portland Ensemble Theatre Company presents Craig Jessen’s thoughtful, well-scripted Pylon.
Temple Lentz
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Daniel Beaty: Resurrection
Pullout: The Mercury’s Essential Guide to TBA:08
Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection is riveting.
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Cannibal! The Musical
Third Eye Theatre botches Cannibal! The Musical.
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Troilus and Cressida
The Northwest Classical Theatre Company does right by Troilus and Cressida.
The Northwest Classical Theatre Company does right by Troilus and Cressida.
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A Few Stout Individuals
Profile Theatre devotes every season to the work of one specific playwright, and the results are generally perfectly adequate. Their current show is an unfortunate exception to the rule: A Few Stout Individuals, the second full-length production in their John Guare season, is absolutely excruciating. It’s 1885, and Ulysses S. Grant (Tobias Anderson) is no […]
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(Not That You Asked)
by Steve Almond
One of Steve Almond’s earliest influences was Kurt Vonnegut, and although his writing has an entirely different flavor, Almond is nonetheless trying to do the same work. Before you remark upon how insightful and sharp this literary analysis is, it’d be fair to note that Almond pretty much says this himself in his latest collection, […]