If you want traditional productions with beautiful sets and Equity casts: Portland Center Stage or Artists Repertory Theatre If I were going to take a grandparent to see theater in Portland, I’d take them to either Artists Repertory Theatre or Portland Center Stage. Both places put on well-produced plays that make for a nice, if […]
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At Theatre Vertigo, Drunken Girls and Mortal Dread
The Drunken City Is About a Bachelorette Party. Don’t Let That Dissuade You!
The Drunken City is about a bachelorette party. Don’t let that dissuade you!
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Inflammatory Wit
Slander and Insults Fly at The School for Lies
Slander and insults fly at The School for Lies.
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Off the Deep End
Theatre Vertigo Brings Nerve and Energy to Pool (No Water)
Theatre Vertigo brings nerve and energy to Pool (No Water).
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Scary Stories
Vertigo’s Uneven Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
With Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Theatre Vertigo struggles to find footing in a new space.
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Ch-Ch-Changes
The Uncertain Future of Reading Frenzy and Theater! Theatre!
The uncertain future of Reading Frenzy and Theater! Theatre!
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Life During Wartime
The American Pilot Takes on American Exceptionalism
Theatre Vertigo explains why Americans are terrible in The American Pilot.
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Animal Sacrifice
Theatre Vertigo Gets Primal in Hunter Gatherers
Theatre Vertigo gets bloodthirsty with Hunter Gatherers.
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Cross-Firing
Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9
Colonialism and cross-dressing in Theatre Vertigo’s Cloud 9.
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Man vs. Machine
Theatre Vertigo’s The Adding Machine
Theatre Vertigo’s darkly brilliant production of The Adding Machine.
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Good for the Gander
Theatre Vertigo’s 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan: Smart, Ambitious, and Worth Seeing
99 WAYS TO FUCK A SWAN is playwright Kim Rosenstock’s extended riff on the origin, history, and meaning of Michelangelo’s “Leda and the Swan,” which features… well, a woman named Leda fucking a swan. (Do an image search—the swan is totally into it.) The play intercuts between four separate narratives: the original Greek myth, Michelangelo’s […]
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God’s Ear. God’s Ear. God’s Ear.
GI Joe Is Very Sorry Your Child Is Dead
Theatre Vertigo’s God’s Ear bogs down in irritating writing.