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TJ Acena
TJ Acena
Why do we tell stories? Humans have been doing it as long as there has been language. Strictly speaking, we don’t need them to survive—not like we need water or shelter—but generation after generation continues to tell and retell stories. This question sits at the center of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes. Set in a Hollywood-style […]
The Broadway musical adaptation of Wicked sheds a lot of the book’s pointed political commentary, we don’t have much hope for it showing up in the movie either.
Wishing more of the Wicked’s pointed political commentary had ended up in the musical—not a lot of hope for the movies either—but still having a nice time.
The end of 2019 saw Artists Repertory Theatre poised for some huge changes. After a generous gift of $7.1 million from an anonymous donor and the sale of the north half of its Goose Hollow property, the company embarked upon a much-needed remodel—a massive, multi-year project that involved a partial demolition of its building, and […]
The end of 2019 saw Artists Repertory Theatre poised for some huge changes. After a generous gift of $7.1 million from an anonymous donor and the sale of the north half of its Goose Hollow property, the company embarked upon a much-needed remodel—a massive, multi-year project that involved a partial demolition of its building, and […]
Entering Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)’s latest show, Cardiac Organ: A Goth Cabaret, felt like descending into an underworld. The cavernous 10,000-square-foot mainspace of Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts (PICA) was filled with smoke and dimly illuminated by hanging strings of red LED lights. Other attendees were almost all dressed in black, and we walked […]
TJ Acena A lot of us have the feeling that there’s something wrong with our country. And also that the wrongness runs deeper than our elected officials. How could anyone make a single play about that? You can’t. So instead, Asher Harman and the Gawdafful National Theater are creating a six-part play/gallery installation/livestream called The […]
TJ Acena In college, I took a course on literary and cultural theory. I spent hours, face buried in my textbook, reading and rereading chapters on Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Thankfully my professor was skilled at explaining the ideas of these philosophers. If not for her, it would have been a completely […]
M.O. STEVENS Artists Repertory Theatre (ART) has had a huge reversal of fortune in the last few years. In 2017, the company incurred a $309,000 lien from the IRS on unpaid payroll taxes. This was followed by the announcement that they would sell the SW Alder half of their property to Wood Partners, a Georgia-based […]
The Artists Repertory’s downtown theater will be out of commission for two—possibly three—years. Here’s why.
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