Friday, June 13, 2025
With "The Importance of Being Earnest" already playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kamilah Bush's fresh adaptation for Portland Center Stage unveils Oscar Wilde's queer coding and gi…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:10PMThursday, June 12, 2025
Yee's undercurrent of humor cushions deeper questions about communism, capitalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the ways we live our lives.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:37PMFriday, May 23, 2025
In review: Damaris Webb goes camping in "Precipice: re-membering, forgetting, and claiming home"; comic actor Chris Grace cuts to racial realities in "Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johannson."
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:19PMThursday, May 8, 2025
A brilliant ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ at Portland Playhouse (even with its NEA grant pulled) Darleen OrtegaAs its grant goes on the chopping block, August Wilson's American classic …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:29PMThursday, May 1, 2025
‘The Brothers Size’: Heartbreak, erasure, resilience and connection Darleen OrtegaTarell Alvin McCraney's poetical play at Portland Center Stage embodies memories of prison and mystical …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:30PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Fertile Ground: ‘Who’s Who’ across the decades Darleen OrtegaIn Marshall Welch's promising play from Rogue Pack, two girls "meet" through notes left 70 years ago in a library copy of "…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:02PMSaturday, March 29, 2025
‘Julius Caesar’ & ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’: Ashland reinvents the classics Darleen OrtegaWith a women and nonbinary cast for "Caesar" and an "Earnest" transported to the…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Oregon Shakespeare Festival strikes gold with a pair of plays about Black life Darleen OrtegaJames Ijames' "Fat Ham" and August Wilson's "Jitney" kick off the Ashland festival's 90th season …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Center Stage’s searing ‘Virginia Woolf’: Why now? Darleen OrtegaEdward Albee's 1960s masterwork of two toxic marriages gets a bold and skillful new performance. Sixty years later, does…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:59PMThursday, March 6, 2025
Review: Third Rail’s potent ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ Darleen OrtegaActors Isaac Lamb and Charles Grant shine in Samuel D. Butler's empathetic drama about two men struggling to…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:35PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
‘Notes from the Field’: A play for today Darleen OrtegaPortland Playhouse's sterling production of Anna Deavere Smith's play about the school-to-prison pipeline meets the nation's politi…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:07PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Review: Lauren Yee’s ‘Samsara’ at Profile is not to be missed Darleen OrtegaPlayful and richly unsettling, Yee's drama about surrogacy and impending parenthood and a kind of colonialis…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:30PMTuesday, December 3, 2024
‘Twelfth Night’: High comedy & big ideas Darleen OrtegaReview: Shakespeare's mind-bending comedy at Portland Center Stage ripples with laughter as the play explores fascinating facet…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 10:59AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
‘The Event!’ – Artists Rep unveils a mystery Darleen OrtegaReview: In its first full production in its home space since 2019, the company creates a cluster of intriguing small-town Ore…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:58AMMonday, October 14, 2024
Review: A razor-sharp ‘Sweeney Todd’ Darleen OrtegaPortland Center Stage mounts a compellingly sung version of Stephen Sondheim's penny-dreadful tale of meat pies, murder, and revenge on…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:41PMMonday, September 23, 2024
Review: The new Native Theater Project gets a strong start with ‘Diné Nishłį’ Darleen OrtegaThe premiere of Blossom Johnson's "Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding Scho…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:53PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
‘Reggie Hoops’: It’s much more than basketball Darleen OrtegaProfile Theatre's world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz' play wrestles fascinatingly with questions of family, professional str…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:35AMThursday, July 4, 2024
Ashland on the big stage: light yet bright Darleen OrtegaThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor-theater "Jane Eyre" and "Much Ado About Nothing" don't plumb all the depths, but both succe…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:20AMThursday, June 27, 2024
Ashland’s ‘Lizard Boy,’ ‘Virgins to Villains’ Darleen OrtegaReview: Robin Goodrin Nordli's trek through a lifetime of playing Shakespeare's women and Justin Huertas' superhero musi…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:49PMFriday, June 14, 2024
‘Clyde’s’: Imperfect people striving for a perfect sandwich Darleen OrtegaReview: In Portland Center Stage's heart-filled production of Lynn Nottage's truck-stop diner comedy/drama, ex…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:03PMThursday, June 13, 2024
Seeing America in a hazy orange tone Darleen OrtegaReview: Profile Theatre's premiere of christopher oscar peña's "our orange sky" tells an immigrant story steeped in ambition, family disco…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:44AM 
