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Norse myths

Creating Peer Gynt at PSC
A troll, according to folklore, can conceive by lust alone. That's one presumptuous genesis, and one that Peer Gynt learns the hard way.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 04, 2009

Friends, Romans...

...Courtesans? Funny Thing, that
Colorful archetypes abound in this super-stratified society of ancient Rome.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Not messing about

Mad Horse's beautiful Clean House
The pale modernism of Lane's living room, plush but sterile, is being slowly strewn with stuff: barely bitten apples, playing cards, a bright yellow spice.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Review: La Cage aux Folles

"All about love"
La Cage aux Folles at Portland Players

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 21, 2009

Stirring the pot

Changes are afoot in the local theater scene
The new year ushers in some lively shake-ups and stirrings among Portland's theater community.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 14, 2009

Troy, Gabriella, and the HSM2 crew put the music in them. Now our two quasi-theater critics are trying to get it out.
When I was a teenager, all I ever longed for was to live in a world where it was socially acceptable, nay, a social requirement , to frequently burst into song.

By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND CHRIS FARAONE | January 07, 2009

In the shadows

Secrets + stories hit the boards in 2009
As we look into the new year, let's start with the most primal theatrical basics: stories.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 31, 2008

New and old

The best of 2008's theater productions
First, a tribute to a few of the year's newer theater ventures.

By BY MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 23, 2008

Drink up!

Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas
Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 10, 2008

Don't get comfy

The Pain and the Itch is no cozy reunion
If you expect your own Thanksgiving to also include a helping of familial anxiety, rest assured that you have nothing on the relatives gathered in Bruce Norris's very black comedy, The Pain and the Itch .

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 26, 2008

Bridesmaids' banter

In Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
At this upper-crust Tennessee wedding, we never see the bride, but her quintet of reluctant bridesmaids gets down to some deep and dirty truths in the sassy, irreverent Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, an early comedy by Alan Ball.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 19, 2008