Performance The key to understanding Michael Lasswell's approach to his adaptation of H.L. Davis' novel Honey in the Horn can be found within the director's notes in the playbill. Here, Lasswell has written a ... More
Children of the Horn
Michael Lasswell turns a novel into child's play.
Performance The key to understanding Michael Lasswell's approach to his adaptation of H.L. Davis' novel Honey in the Horn can be found within the director's notes in the playbill. Here, Lasswell has written a ... More
IMITATION OF LIFE
Movie Reviews & Stories The suburbs became as important to American cinema after World War II as they were to land developers, spawning what now looks like a whole film genre. Though the '50s and early '60s appear to be ... More
Dead End
Imago's take on Ionesco is grave.
Performance Eugene Ionesco's play is an absurdist farceur's translation of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' On Death and Dying. Berenger (Ionesco's Everyman and an alter ego), king of a collapsed realm, is dying. ... More
Q&A: Lewis Lapham
Harper's editor pans the Bush war(s).
News Lewis Lapham is the type of social critic who frightens members of the American ruling class, as, like Gore Vidal, he's one of them. His family helped found Texaco, and his grandfather was the may ... More
Oregonized Publishing
Powell's new publishing venture brings regional classics back to the shelf.
Books Perhaps the best way to gauge the historic diversity in Oregon literature is to consider the first two titles published by the new Powell's Press, which take the reader from the sylvan environs of ... More
CHANGE OF SCENE
Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style.
Food Reviews & Stories Considering we live in a country whose historical memory rarely exceeds last week, there are a surprising number of restaurants in Portland that have defied the fashion of disposability. Along wit ... More
DIRECT TO VIDEO
Stage Direct is trying to lure people back to the theater through video.
Performance Theater. The great invalid is on life-support in America. Outside of a few dedicated theater towns (Minneapolis, Chicago, perhaps Seattle), theater has all but flat-lined. Sadly, it's no longer an ... More
A Kind of Conquest
Quintessence Theatre tries to get to the essence of one of Shakespeare's "problem" plays.
Performance It's too easy to dismiss Cymbeline, though the play is worthy of harsh criticism. It possesses some of the worst lines in Shakespeare (though there are some honeyed words amid the hackery), it's p ... More
The Big Top Is Back
Cirque du Soleil returns to town pulling a new wagon of wonders.
Performance Cirque naysayers--en garde! There are a few out there who question Cirque du Soleil's hype. They say Cirque is formulaic, manipulative and tired. Really? What do you call the wide eyes the perform ... More
Good Neighbors
ART can't avoid what lies in Moises Kaufman's Laramie.
Performance Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project is American propaganda. In an earnest attempt to understand the meanings behind the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was brutally beaten to death ... More
Top Articles from Steffen Silvis
PORTLAND, THEY WROTE
Ten authors. Ten stories. One city. CHANGE OF SCENE
Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style. Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness. The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater. Drawing Boy (and Girl)
Four artists illustrate their love for Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Dead Cool
Liminal's The Resurrectory is a walk-through nightmare (and that's a good thing). THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH
WW's longtime theater critic says goodbye to all that. Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries. REFLECTING IMAGES
An artist responds to the death of her artist brother. Street Zen
Hand 2 Mouth stages the life of Issan Dorsey, the man who went from whore to holiness.
Ten authors. Ten stories. One city. CHANGE OF SCENE
Two popular cafes, Cafe Lena and La Patisserie, have changed hand and style. Revolt into Style
The magazine Bloody Beautiful and its creator demand a return to smartness. The Winners Circle
The Drammy Awards (a.k.a. the Willies) hit their 25th year of celebrating the best of Portland theater. Drawing Boy (and Girl)
Four artists illustrate their love for Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Dead Cool
Liminal's The Resurrectory is a walk-through nightmare (and that's a good thing). THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH
WW's longtime theater critic says goodbye to all that. Bone Settlers
Portlander Jonathan Raymond's new novel unearths two Northwest friendships from two different centuries. REFLECTING IMAGES
An artist responds to the death of her artist brother. Street Zen
Hand 2 Mouth stages the life of Issan Dorsey, the man who went from whore to holiness.
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