Performance A pair of Albanian princes with fake mustaches slink onstage toward the apprehensive young ladies. Wearing embroidered silk smoking jackets in a riot of Oriental colors, the pair recalls SNL’s S ...   More

Performance An awkward loser learns his lesson the hard way in this world premiere by Hunt Holman, running through this weekend at Portland Playhouse. Doug (Patrick Oury) returns to the miserable rural Washington ...   More

Performance In more than 35 years and 45 recordings, the Kronos Quartet has seemingly explored every conceivable musical direction, from the jazz of Thelonius Monk and Bill Evans, through collaborations with comp ...   More

Performance It’s possible for a work of art to be both ahead of its time and hopelessly behind. Noël Coward’s Design for Living was written in 1932 but not performed in London until 1939 because ...   More

Performance Greg Tamblyn has outdone himself. The Portland director and producer has had his hits (three years of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) and failures (a financially disastrous 2003 producti ...   More

Performance 2010 kicks off with the second Fertile Ground Festival, Portland’s annual celebration of new work in the performing arts. This time the 12-day event features more than 50 world premieres by Port ...   More

Performance Third Angle, Sound of the Five (New World)The veteran Portland new music ensemble has formed a close connection with the ebullient, Guangzhou-born Chen Yi, who now teaches and composes in the U.S. Whi ...   More

Performance My college roommate is normal on the surface. But she is also a “cat person.” Cats on her T-shirts, cats on her coffee mugs, and two little cats in our apartment, Abraham and Blanket, who ...   More

Performance HOLIDAZED (Artists Rep)Last November, Artists Rep premiered this pan-holiday comedy by Marc Acito and C.S. Whitcomb, which covers the entire season from Halloween to Christmastime. It has been brought ...   More

Performance BodyVox’s Dance Center is finally clean. Last spring, when the company presented The Foot Opera Files, the unfinished space was still filled with dust. “It was dirty. Literally,” say ...   More