Performance Tolstoy’s masterpiece Anna Karenina is a uniquely difficult novel to adapt into a play. It is a long and somewhat baggy affair that constantly swings between two contrasting main plots stitche   More

Performance This weekend, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival will bring more than 200 comedians to nine venues along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. That’s a lot of funny people. But how well do these so-calle   More

Performance If you’re going to run from the swamp, you’d best keep running. Oya runs fast enough to earn a track scholarship, but stays behind to care for her ailing mother. When autumn rolls around again   More

Performance Like the movie Memento, the play Betrayal and the musical Merrily We Roll Along, Portland Opera’s new production of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei proceeds backward in time. Directed by Kevin Newbu   More

Performance Reversing entropy is no easy endeavor. “It’s crazy,” John Berendzen says as he crosses the threshold of the gutted office space where he’s summoning the ghost of Gertrude Stein. “I’ve    More

Performance Let me tell you about David Mamet: He’s 64 years old, hasn’t written anything really good since Ronin and hates women. If you’ve ever seen a Mamet play, you already knew that last bit. His fem   More

Performance There is an inherent obstacle in producing Romeo and Juliet. It’s not the language, which translates beautifully. It’s not the characters, who remain strong even in the most Luhrmannesque ad   More

Performance In 1980, young composer Bob Priest visited Poland to attend Warsaw Autumn, one of the best known annual festivals of contemporary “classical” music. He resolved to create a similar celebrati   More

Performance It just wouldn’t be Shakespeare without a little sexual subterfuge. Though it’s one of his lesser-known tales, Cymbeline employs many of the playwright’s favorite plot devices—mistaken ide   More

Performance There’s a reason fairy tales have been plumbed for art’s sake so deeply: they’re bottomless. Murky with our fears, desires and other shadowy drives, the stories of the Brothers Grimm, Hans   More