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BWW Review: GLORIA at Profile Theatre

GLORIA, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2015 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, speaks with eerie coincidence to two of the biggest national conversations taking place today.
BWW Review: Corrib Theatre's BELFAST GIRLS is Full of Fascinating History, Could Use More Emotion

BELFAST GIRLS, opening Corrib Theatre's 2017-2018 season, tells the story of five women who traveled from Belfast to Australia during the Irish Famine of the mid-1850s.
Corrib Theatre's 2017-18 Season to Feature Three Contemporary Irish Plays

For its fifth year of offering Portland plays by contemporary Irish playwrights, Corrib Theatre brings these three gripping, politically relevant works: Belfast Girls by Jaki McCarrick, Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney and Quietly by Owen McCafferty.
Theatre Vertigo presents THE ELECTRIC BABY

Who can account for the odd ways in which people meet and affect the existence of others? Winner of the Francesca Primus Prize, THE ELECTRIC BABY tells the story of a group of fractured souls who have to rewrite their lives due to a car accident and an encounter with a magical dying baby.
BWW Review: PLAYHOUSE CREATURES Shows How Far We Haven't Come in 400 Years, at CoHo Productions

PLAYHOUSE CREATURES is a funny and heartbreaking look at what life was like for a woman in theatre during England's Restoration period. Sadly, it wasn't much different from today.
CoHo Productions Presents PLAYHOUSE CREATURES

What does it take to be (or not to be) a woman in the theatre? Playhouse Creatures shamelessly reveals their historic struggle to survive and thrive on stage and behind the scenes.
BWW Review: ASSISTANCE Takes the Horrible Boss/Mistreated Underling Dynamic to a Whole New (and Funny) Level, at Theatre Vertigo

The next time you're getting ready for work, take a moment to be grateful that your boss is not Daniel Weisinger, the super-rich, super-entitled boss who sucks the life out of one assistant after another in Leslye Headland's ASSISTANCE, now playing at Theatre Vertigo. The play is a sarcastic and funny look at the worst bits of modern office life, and the people on which that life takes its toll.
Lakewood Theatre Company Presents Noel Coward Comedy PRESENT LAUGHTER

Present Laughter, the classic comedy by Noel Coward, opens at Lakewood Theatre Company November 6, 2015.
NW Classical Theatre Company Concludes 17th Season with 'GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA', Now thru 6/21

Northwest Classical Theatre Company concludes its seventeenth season with Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), an action-packed, hilarious homage to Shakespeare and the people who love his plays.
NW Classical Theatre Company to Conclude 17th Season with 'GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA', 5/22-6/21

Northwest Classical Theatre Company concludes its seventeenth season with Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), an action-packed, hilarious homage to Shakespeare and the people who love his plays.
BWW Reviews: THE MAIDS' TRAGEDY Is a Bloody Good Show at Northwest Classical

It's a hot-blooded, passionate account, with sex, partying, and lots of blood, and it takes a strong company to pull it off. Luckily, Northwest Classical is up to the challenge.
Photo Flash: First Look - Artists Rep's THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Artists Rep presents The Playboy of the Western World by J.M Synge, from through June 22, as the final show of the 14/15 season. Damaso Rodriguez, Artists Rep's Artistic Director, will direct this riotous and raucous production that features a stellar 11-person cast including Portland talent Chris Murray, Amy Newman, Allen Nause, Isaac Lamb, Michael Mendelson, Bill Geisslinger and Los Angeles' Jill Van Velzer. Check out a first look below!
CoHo Productions to Present ENJOY By Toshiki Okada

CoHo Productions will present Enjoy, by Toshiki Okada with English translation by Aya Ogawa, co-produced and directed at the CoHo Theatre by Michael Griggs.
THE BIG MEAL, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and More Set for Artists Rep's 2013-14 Season

Artists Repertory Theatre's 2013/14 season will continue our vision of finding and producing adventurous, provocative work that challenges audiences and artists alike. Next season's play offerings will enhance Artists Rep's role as Portland's premiere mid-size regional theatre company by offering nine of the most cutting-edge plays available today, written by internationally prestigious playwrights, guided by esteemed directors and featuring casts who will unleash these stories onto our stages.
Photo Flash: Lakewood Theatre Company Presents THE HOLLOW

Agatha Christie's play, The Hollow, opening at Lakewood Theatre Company January 14, 2011, has all the ingredients for a classic murder mystery - a grand country house, upper crust family, weekend party with a variety of intriguing guests, a dutiful butler and maid, cocktails before dinner and a complex triangle of secret love affairs that seem destined for trouble.

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