Willamette Week

The World Ends Over Small Talk in Escaped Alone

Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a Fascinating, Fashion-Obsessed Delight

Legal and Spiritual Justice are Questioned in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train

How to Keep an Alien Chronicles a Cross-Cultural Romance and Navigating a Lot of Red Tape

A Republican Senator Questions His Love of God and Guns in Church & State

Until the Flood Takes an Overpowering Journey to Ferguson, Mo., Following the Michael Brown Shooting

Portland Playhouse’s Crowns is a Poignant Musical About Hats and Heritage

Milagro and Confrontation’s Jump is an Earth-Shaking Saga of Grief and Endurance

Portland Playhouse’s “Fences” Is Much More Than an Introduction to August Wilson

For the seventh play in Wilson’s 10-play cycle that Portland Playhouse has staged, the theater brought in an outside director, Lou Bellamy. Bellamy’s intimate relationship with Fences began in St. Paul, Minn., where he played Troy Maxson under the direction of Wilson himself. In that same production, Purry played the role of Cory.

DeLanna Studi’s Debut Play Is a Personal Exploration of the Trail of Tears

In “And So We Walked,” playwright and performer DeLanna Studi recounts an early memory. The child of a white mother and Cherokee father, her father once told her, “You will be a bridge between your mother’s people and mine.” Instead, she tells us, she’s more of an island between two shores. “And So We Walked” is Studi’s first play. It’s getting its premiere at Portland Center Stage, where she recently starred in Astoria. Throughout the autobiographical performance, Studi explores her relationship with her father and her Cherokee heritage. This culminates in a six-week, 900-mile trip along the Trail of Tears that she persuades her father to take with her.

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