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jUStout,31 on stage Artists Repertory Theatre presents a world premiere Defunkt Theatre presents the Portland premiere adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Vanya starring Academy of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, a haunting Award winner William Hurt that transplants the setting drama in which a pair of young friends race against death, from 19th century Russia to Depression-era America, through Feb. 10 at Back Door Theater. Trestle is a slow, through Feb. 25. (Call for times. 1516 SW Alder St. $24- j dolorous tale of-teenage yearning set amid the Great $64 from 503-24T-1278.) Depression. Despite wonderfully weird moments with two kids under a bridge, the play is overall vaguely incoherent Arts Equity presents Hot 'n' Throbbing, a button-pusher and off-key, with visual compositions and physicality dwarf that boldly asks, “Which is more obscene, pornography or ing its bland language. (8 pm Thursday-Sunday. 4319 SE domestic violence?” through Feb. 25. (7:30 pm Thursday- Hawthorne Blvd. $10-$15 from 503-481-2960; Thursdays Saturday, 2 pm Feb. 4 and 25. 606 Main St. $8-$24 from and Sundays are "pay what you will. ”) 360-695-3770.) BodyVox presents First Impressions V. 5, another evening of entirely new works, Feb. 2 and 3 at Columbia Dance Center in Vancouver, Wash. (7:30 pm. 1700 Broadway. $24 $30 from 503-229-0627.) CoHo Productions presents gay playwright William S. Gregory's Chateau Joyeaux, a tale of a family divided during post-war France, through Feb. 24. (8pm Thursday- Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $20-$23 from 503-220-2646.) Discovery Theatre Lab presents Phaedra, a Greek tragedy about a princess who falls for her stepson, through Feb. 4 at Gresham Little Theater. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. 30639 SE Bluff Road. $10.) that at times limit the serious ness of her underlying sub jects. Still, several touching moments and conundrums are effectively rendered. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sun day. 3430 SE Belmont St. $10- $28 from 503-242-0080.) Slocum House Theatre pre sents The Odd Couple (Female Version), Neil Simon's famous update of his contemporary classic, through Feb. 4. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. 605 Esther St., Vancouver, Wash. $8 $ 10 from 360-696 2427.) I j Insight Out Theatre Collective presents The Yellow Boat, based on the true story of a young boy who contracts HIV through a blood transfusion and creates inspired art that transforms his pain, through Feb. 11 at Echo Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 and 7 pm Sunday. 1515 SE 37th Ave. $15 from 503-493-8070; Sunday evenings are $5-$15 sliding scale.) Spring 4th Productions pre sents Loop: An Original Work place Comedy about all of your worst co-worker nightmares come to life, written and performed by gay actors Tobin Gollihar and Ian Sieren, through Feb. 9 at Shoe Box Theatre. (10 pm Friday. 2110 SE 10th Ave. $12 at the door, $10 in advance from 503-235-2633.) Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center presents Facets of Africa, featuring some of Portland's most vibrant story tellers sharing tales from several African cultures followed by an open conversation about the diversity within African cultures, Feb. 1-24. (10 am Thursday, 2 pm Saturday. 5340 N Interstate Ave. $5 $ 10 from 503-823-9455, ext. 1.) LAKE OSWEGO PHOT) Lakewood Theatre Company presents Where's Charley?— a Tony-winning musical packed with frank Loesser hits—through Feb. 18. (Call for times. 368 S State St., Lake Oswego. $23 $25 from 503-635-3901.) Key Productions presents Can't Say I Do, an original musical about same-sex marriage, through Jan. 20 at World Trade Center Theater. The natural pick ings of Ian Anderson-Priddy and Meredith Weber lift this softcore, uninciteful activist theater from an otherwise uneven staging. (7:30 pm. 121 SW Salmon St $20-$25 from www.keypdx.com.) Underwear heir Johnny (Steven Cole Hughes) warns the impudent Bentley (Ben Steinfeld) to shape up if he hopes to succeed in marrying Madison's Grill presents the dinner his sister in Portland Center Stage's Misalliance through Feb. 4. theater musical Who Stole My Dead Husband through March 31. (7 pm Saturday. 1109 SE Madison St. $57- $67 from 800-966-8865.) Miracle Theatre Group revives Frida, un retablo, its critically acclaimed bilingual work about the life of Frida Kahlo, through Jan. 20. This straightforward consideration of the bisexual artist moves smoothly and quickly through key events and people, with a simple but pleasing setup of young and old Frida in dialogue that frames a traditional narrative. (8 pm Friday, 2 and 8 pm Saturday. 525 SE Stark St. $15-$ 18 from 503-236-7253.) Miracle Theatre Group presents Sonia Flew, a moving account of a Cuban-American woman whose half-Jewish son enlists in the war against terror in Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11, Feb. 2-24. (7:30pm Thursday, 8pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 525 SE Stark St. $17- $20 from 503-236-7253.) Northwest Children's Theater presents the Portland premiere of Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, a musical based on the popular book about a kindergartner who is delighted to learn that her new baby brother is a "real, alive monkey!” Jan. 25-Feb. 26 at Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center. (Call for times. 1819 NW Everett St. $16-$20 from 503-222-4480.) Gay actor Alan Anderson stars in Where's Charley? through Feb. 18 at Lakewood Theatre. eatingout eatingout Oregon Children's Theatre presents the Oregon premiere of Miss Nelson Is Missing! —a witty, wacky musical about eatingout eatingout ->BBQ on Broadways Odessa’s Cafe Authentic Southern BBQ Slow Cooked Homemade Sauce - Now Serving Beer & Wine 3445 NE Broadway - 503-2SS-3369 1 tam-Spm Sun-Thurs & t tam~9pm Fri & Sat Dine-Tn or Take Out the substitute teacher from........ well, it's not a nice place—through Jan. 28 at Keller Auditorium. (Call for times. 222 SW Clay St. $12-$23 from 503-228-9571.) Portland Center for the Performing Arts presents Menopause: The Musical— four women at a lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra, memory loss, hot flashes and night sweats—extended through Feb. 18 at Winnmgstad Theatre. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway $44.50 from box office or Ticketmaster.) Portland Center Stage presents Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw's biting satire that unmasks aristocratic courtship, cavorting and matrimony and decries Edwardian class stratification, through Feb. 4 in the new Gerding Theater at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. $16.50-$59.50 from 503-445-3700.) Portland Opera's Broadway Across America presents Altar Boyz, a smash off-Broadway musical-comedy spoof about a heavenly boy band on the rise to stardom, Jan. 30- Feb. 4 at Newmark Theatre. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway. $41 $51 from Ticketmaster.) Profile Theatre Project continues its Wendy Wasserstein season with The Heidi Chronicles. a Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play that follows an art histo rian through two decades of personal change as women begin to question their roles in society, through Feb. 11 at Theater Theatre. This solid performance of Wasserstein's '80s period piece offers a nonstop parade of witty zingers and a buzz of upper-echelon East Coast name-dropping eatingout eatingout eatingout Theatre Vertigo presents Escape from Happiness, a farce/whodunit about an oddball matriarch who calmly doles out wisdom in her kitchen as her family is plunged into mayhem, through Feb. 10 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 4 pm Jan. 21. 3430 SE Belmont St. $15 from 503-306-0870; Thursdays are "pay what you will.") Theatre Vertigo presents If You Take One Elf Off the Shelf, a maze of theatrical pranks and "actor" back-stories interwoven with a hilarious tale about an author and her characters, through Feb. 9 at Theater Theatre. (10:30 pm Thursday-Saturday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $5 from 503-970-7277; Thursdays are "pay what you will.") Third Rail Repertory Theater presents the world premiere of Number Three through Feb. 10 at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center. In this full volume madcap portrait of 1950s military childhood, Third Rail drags a finger across the sadness and sickness that smudge an American family's gleaming countertops with a production of immaculate details and breakneck pace, though the material is one notch below the cast's potential. Notable: Scott Coopwood goes beyond the bad guy with his broken, touching cries of "royal blood." (8 pm. 5340 N Interstate Ave. $15-$24 from 503-235-1101.) Triangle Productions presents the Northwest premiere of Bark!— a howlingly funny and sometimes poignant musical about man's best friend, as told and sung from the doggie point of view—through March 10 at Artists Repertory Theatre. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 1516 SW Alder St. $30 at the door, $22 $28 in advance from 503-239-5919 or www.tripro.org.) Reviewed by T imothy K rause or W inston GOODBODY. Read more and comment at followspot.blogspot.com. eatingout eatingout
