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Review: Portland Center Stage's Body of an American

With a masterly script and commanding performances, Portland Center Stage's new, world-premiere production brilliantly casts a light into humanity's shadowy psychic spaces.

10/15/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

moving in the right direction

Review: Gossip Changes Lives with its Live Show

The local band-made-big returned home for an infectious show that ended in profound transformation. Banging new local standout Magic Mouth opened.

10/11/2012 By Aaron Scott

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10th Annual FOUND Magazine Tour Hits PDX

Brothers Davy & Peter Rothbart bring voyeuristic snippets from other people's lives from the page to the stage tonight at Powell's and tomorrow at Holocene.

10/08/2012 Edited by Aaron Scott By Meaghan Morawski

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Review: Third Rail's That Hopey Changey Thing

Third Rail Repertory sets us a place at the Apple family table in this astute, humorous, but not always hardy telling of the political drama. Plays thru October 28.

10/07/2012 By Aaron Scott

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Review: NW Dance Project

The local world–class dance company tackles three ambitious world premieres, and award-winner Franco Nieto shines. Playing through Saturday at Lincoln Hall.

10/05/2012 By Aaron Scott

feed me, seymour!

Review: Little Shop of Horrors

Broadway Rose's current production of the musical hits all the right notes: It's gallows-humorous, deliciously campy, and set to a nostalgia-inducing score of late-'50s R&B tunes.

09/28/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

impeccably shaved

Review: PCS's Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Portland Center Stage's production of Sondheim's macabre masterpiece is a delicious feast both grisly and divine. Playing through Oct 21.

09/25/2012 By Aaron Scott

political theater at its best

TBA Day 7: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol Double Review

The Mexican theater collective tackles ambitious political topics with their two shows. Final performance tonight at 6:30.

09/12/2012 By Aaron Scott

if a war falls on the forest..

Review: Shaking the Tree's Far Away by Caryl Churchill

A biting political dystopia imagines a world where everything is at war, and 'us' versus 'them' has taken on absurd new heights.

09/04/2012 By Aaron Scott

Bookshelf

Review: Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch

Based on a famed Freud case, the novel is as a razor-edged scalpel dissecting what it means to be categorized, typed, and diagnosed.

08/23/2012 By Roxanne Myslewski

separating the men from the boys

Review: 4 Men Only

At Conduit Dance Studio March 2–3

07/24/2012 By Aaron Scott

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TBA 2011: Rachid Ouramdane

Considering our differences

07/24/2012 By Claudia La Rocco

dance

Dance Discussion: In Site Part I

Jeans, waves, wind…and a bright red stumbling-block. A viewer’s impressions, and the artist’s response.

07/24/2012 By Anne Adams

revisiting monstrous beauties

Chuck Palahniuk Remixes His Monsters

To celebrate the twisted re-release of Invisible Monsters, Palahniuk will read at the Bing Lounge on June 21 (with vodka!)

06/19/2012

hot diggity dog

Dandy Warhols: Review & Slide Show

At the tail end of their US tour and the launch of new album This Machine, the psych-pop supergroup still sounds daisy-fresh and admits that there’s no place like home.

06/18/2012 Edited by Anne Adams

gather your darlings

Review: Robin Jackson’s Solo Debut ‘Dust Diaries’

Record release concert this Friday, June 8 at Secret Society Ballroom with members of the Portland Cello Project, MarchFourth Marching Band, and Vagabond Opera. Y La Bamba frontlady Luz Elena Mendoza opens

06/06/2012 By Kit Mauldin