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Artists Repertory Theatre presents Frozen, in which the
lives of three strangers are connected through the dis­
appearance of a child and the search for answers from a
killer in custody, through May 7. (Call for times. 1516 SW
Alder St. $ 15440 from 503-241-1278.)
Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theater presents And
Then..., a new work inspired by the paintings of Marc
Chagall, April 28-May 21 at Echo Theatre. (Call for times.
1515 SE 37th Ave. $15422 from 503-231-1232 or
www.doiump.org.)
Artists Repertory Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim's
Tony-winning musical Assassins April 25-June 4. (Call for
times. 1516 SW Alder St. $15440 from 503-241-1278.) '
Imago Theatre revives Frogz, its ever-popular creature­
theater menagerie of escaped penguins, silent sloths and
invisible cats, through May 28. (Call for times. 17 SE Eighth
Ave. $16427 from 503-231-9581 or TicketsWest.)
Brooklyn Bay revives Tao Soup, a savory blend of Eastern
and Western influences utilizing text, movement, music,
sound and an assortment of unpredictable delights and
surprises, April 28-June 17. (8 pm Friday and Saturday.
1825 SE Franklin St. $10415 from 503-777-5879.)
Charles Ross performs a high-energy, nonstop blast
through three films in just one hour in One-Man Star Wars
Trilogy May 2-6 at Newmark Theatre. (Call for times.
1111 SW Broadway. $20-$30 from box office or
Ticketmaster.)
Cirque du Soleil presents Varekai, another aston­
ishing spectacle of athleticism and artistry set
against a baroque and operatic backdrop, extended
through April 23. Hard bodies, slick showmanship and
perfection of craft make this a guilty pleasure—and the
sight of those sexy, swingin' twins is downright sinful.
(Call for times. Southwest Moody Avenue. $24.50470
from 800-678-5440 or www.cirquedusofeil.com.)
Club Posse Productions presents Going All the Way:
A Very Special Night of Theatre, a multimedia tale of love,
lust and lunchroom alienation based on the after-school
specials that ruled the 3 pm network time slot from the
early 1970s to the mid-1990s, April 27-May 12 at Theater
Theatre. (11:30 pm Thursday-Saturday. No show April 29.
3430 SE Belmont St. $7 from 503-358-8646; Thursdays are
"pay what you will.")
CoHo Productions presents By the Bog of Cats, a new
Medea story of vengeance and forgiveness set in modem
Ireland, May 5-June 10. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm
Sunday. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $19-$22 from
503-220-C0H0.)
Insight Out Theatre Collective, in collaboration
with the Debate Society, presents A Thought
About Raya, a series of colliding scenes plucked from the
idiosyncratic mind of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms,
through April 29 at West End Theatre. Though you might
leave scratching your head about what to make of this
string of humorous, non sequiter absurdities, vivid
moments of rational clarity will stick in your mind, large­
ly due to crisp, on-point and energetic physical comedy
that goes round-for-round with its perplexingly punchy
sketches. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 3 pm April 23.
1220 SW Taylor St. $15 from 503-234-0973; Thursdays
are $5415 sliding scale.)
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center presents Shylock,
an award-winning solo piece about the highly charged
relationship among political correctness, censorship and
art, through April 22. (8 pm. 5340 N Interstate Ave. $12-
$16 from 503-736-1027.)
Lakewood Theatre Company presents Hello, Dolly!, the
beloved American musical about an 1890s matchmaker,
April 28-June 11. (Call for times. 368 S State St., Lake
Oswego. $25427 from 503-635-3901.)
Miracle Theatre Group presents Ardiente
Paciencia (Burning Patience), based on the novel
that inspired the 1995 film II Postino (The Postman), which
imagines Chilean poet Pablo Neruda befriending a love-
struck postman, through April 29. This warm and
affectionate production eloquently places the great writer
on a human scale while never wavering from its reverence
for his fiery politics and poetry, the language of which
makes up for the script's rather
mild plot. Performed in Spanish
with English supertitles Thursdays
and Sundays. (7:30 pm Thursday,
8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm
Sunday. 525 SE Stark St. $14418
from 503-236-7253.)
Northwest Children's Theater
presents the Cat in the Hat, Horton
the Elephant and all of the Whos
in Whoville in Seussical, the
Musical May 5-28 at Northwest
Neighborhood Cultural Center.
(Call for times. 1819 NW Everett
St $12420 from 503-222-4480 or
wwwnwcts.org.)
Oregon Ballet Theatre presents
its Mozart-themed Spring Program
featuring Lar Lubovitch's joyful
"Concerto
Six
Twenty-Two"
April 22-29 at Keller Auditorium.
(Call for times. 222 SW Clay St
$8496 from box office or
503-2-BALLET.)
Terra performs April 21 at Mississippi Studios.
Oregon Ballet Theatre and other
artists celebrate the life of ballerina
and beloved teacher Elena Carter,
who passed away in February, with
a memorial performance April 30 at
Newmark Theatre Donations bene-
A psychiatrist (Karen Trumbo) tries to unlock the secrets of a chilly, enigmatic killer (Keith Scales)
in the haunting drama Frozen through May 7 at Artists Rep.
fit the Elena Carter Memorial Scholarship Fund. (7:30 pm.
1111 SW Broadway.)
behavior and African tribes, May 7-10 at Theater Theatre.
(7 pm. 3430 SE Belmont St. $10415 from 503-242-0080.)
Oregon Children's Theatre presents Alexander, Who's
Not, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move!— a musical
chock full of pop, Motown and Broadway-inspired
songs—April 22-May 14 at Brunish Hall. (11 am and 2 pm
Saturday, 2 and 5 pm Sunday. 1111 SW Broadway. $17-
$22 from 503-228-9571 or Ticketmaster.)
Reed College presents its Spring Dance Concert May 5
and 6 at Kaul Auditorium. (8 pm. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
$144.)
Portland Actors Conservatory presents Experiment with
an Air Pump, in which the cellar of a house reveals a dark
secret buried for 200 years, through April 30 at Firehouse
Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday.
1436 SW Montgomery St. $15425 from 503-274-1717.)
Portland Civic Theatre Guild's First Tuesday Readers
Theatre presents the original revue A Musical Treat May 2
at The Old Church. (10:30 am. 1422 SW 11th Ave. $5.)
Portland Metro Performing Arts Center presents the final
run of Hot Flashes, a comedy that follows the career of a
five-woman band from their 40s to their 70s, April 29-
June 3. (Call for times. 9933 SE Pine St. $20424 from
503-775-8017 or www.hotflashesthemusical.com.)
Portland Story Theater celebrates complex feelings about
mothers and motherhood in Everybody's Got One
May 5-13 at Center Space. Sure beats therapy! (7:30 pm
Friday and Saturday. 420 SE Sixth Ave. $15 from
www.portlandstorytheater. com.)
Profile Theatre Project continues its Lanford
Wilson season with Redwood Curtain, in which a
young Vietnamese-American piano prodigy in search of
her biological father encounters a homeless Vietnam
veteran who has retreated from society, through May 14
at Theater Theatre. Labyrinthine redwood forests—full of
snapping twigs, wrong turns, distant echoes—make a
striking metaphor for Wilson's lost-and-lonely story, but
instead of stretching its legs to better know the dramatic
terrain, this well-cast production seemed consigned to fol­
low the paved-path loop around the sylvan psyche, seeing
the sights from a safe distance. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday,
2 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $13428 from
503-242-0080)
Profile Theatre Project concludes its Lanford Wilson
season with a staged reading of a totally revised text of
Sympathetic Magic, his Obie-winnmg play about an
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Sowelu Theater Ensemble presents The Water
Principle, a metaphorical play about forgotten
landscapes and aggressive land grabs, through April 22
at Back Door Theater. Neither perfect nor easy, this dan­
gerously wise and underhandedly funny work pays off
days later when you can't stop thinking about its desper­
ate imagination gone awry. Michael Fetters is flawless.
(8 pm. 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. $8415 from
503-230-2090.)
Stark Raving Theatre presents The Mark, in
which three actors play multiple characters
whose lives intertwine through three poetic dramas,
through April 22. A well-cast trio brings depth to an other­
wise simplistic Lifetime triptych in this modem melodrama
from Portland playwright Gretchen Icenogle. (8 pm.
2257 NW Raleigh St. $ 10420 from 503-232-7072.)
Stark Raving Theatre puts writers in the hot seat in the
improv hit The Writer's Nightmare through April 22.
(11 pm. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $10 from 503-232-7072.)
Theatre Vertigo, in collaboration with Defunkt Theatre,
presents Like I Say, a mysterious and comic story about a
peculiar group of travelers who try to make some sense of
life and get a hold of some ready cash, through May 13 at
Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday. 3430 SE
Belmont St. $15 from 503-306-0870; Thursdays are "pay
what you will.")
White Bird presents the Portland debut of Israel's
acclaimed Inbal Pinto Dance Company May 3 at Arlene
Schmtzer Concert Hall. (7:30 pm. 1037 SW Broadway. $19-
$43 from box office or Ticketmaster.)
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