Performance Mexico, like most Latino cultures, has a pervasive cult of the dead that sees its fullest expression in the ancestor worship and macabre partying of Dia de los Muertos. In the U.S., we go to great len ...   More

Performance A good receptionist is more than just the gatekeeper of the phones. In our office, anyway, the receptionist is the conduit for all company gossip, the only person who knows where everyone is at any gi ...   More

Performance Some relationships are steamy from the start, but the most fruitful unions tend to have longer courtships. Such, according to Stan Foote, was the wooing by his Oregon Children’s Theatre of Lois ...   More

Performance They grow up so fast: Portland’s finest small theater company has outgrown its first home at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and relocated to the less picturesque but larger and more co ...   More

Performance When Chris Coleman announced at the beginning of summer that he would set his season-opening production of Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows’ musical masterpiece in the Depression-era New York of th ...   More

Performance A quest for diversity is not what drives San Francisco dancemaker Alonzo King, although he has paired his ballet dancers with such artistically divergent collaborators as tabla master Zakir Hussain, f ...   More

Performance It’s stifling in the theater, maybe 85 degrees, and onstage a man in a Ronald McDonald wig holds a damp flag bandana to his mouth and huffs himself into a stupor. This comes as no surprise. In t ...   More

Performance If the victim in Akira Kurosawa’s film crime classic Rashōmon had been a child and the witnesses limited to two, it might have resembled David Harrower’s unbearably horrid Blackbird. ...   More

Performance It looks more like FEMA than fine art: A dozen performers in orange T-shirts and khaki slacks mill around a gray corrugated-steel shipping container plopped in the parking lot of Northeast 82nd Avenue ...   More

Performance We’ve lost a good one: Kristan Seemel, one Portland’s most promising young directors, is leaving this month to spend three years as one of just two students in Brown University and Trinity ...   More