on stage
Artists Repertory Theatre presents The Retreat
from Moscow, a nuanced tale of domestic heart
break about a quiet history teacher who wants out of his
34-year marriage to a theatrical poet, through April 29. Old
pros Keith Scales and JoAnn Johnson, together with new
comer Alex Moggridge, craft a particular elegance from the
intimate, real-time moments of this private tragedy. Little
new is revealed, but there are unspoken truths. (Call for
times. 1516 SW Alder St. $15442.50 from 503-241-1278.)
Arts Equity presents The Long Voyage Home, Eugene
O'Neill's four one-acts about an«thmcally diverse group of
sailors, through April 22. (7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm
April 22. 606 Main St., Vancouver, Wash $8424 from
360-695-3770.)
BroadArts Theatre presents a quirky urban-folk rock 'n' roll
musical spiraling around 40 WonderBroads The Babes and
Broads Who Broke the Rules through May 5 at Rose City
Park Presbyterian Church. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm
Sunday. 1907 NE 46th Ave $ 18422 from 503-288-5181.)
Brooklyn Bay Performance Space presents The Liar's
Club, in which performers spin five outrageous lies that
transport and enthrall while gradually revealing the hidden
truth alive at the center of each one, April 27-June 2. (8pm
Friday and Saturday. 1825 SE Franklin St. $12415 from
503-772-4005.)
CoHo Productions presents the Northwest premiere of
My Matisse, depicting the vibrant painter through the eyes
of the seven most important women in his life, April 27-
June 2. (8pm Thursday-Saturday, 2pm Sunday. 2257 NW
Raleigh St. $20423 from 503-220-2646.)
Defunkt Theatre presents the world premiere of In
Apparati, a poetic and fragmentary examination of captiv
ity, identity and freedom in which four prisoners are held
under different but unspecified pretenses and locked in
movement-restrictive devices in an unnamed detention
facility, April 26-May 26 at Back Door Theater. (8 pm
Thursday-Sunday. 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. $10-$ 15 from
503-481-2960; Thursdays and Sundays are "pay what you
will.")
Duke Productions presents Gonzo—A Brutal Chrysalis,
a raw, unflinching and intimate look at the life of Hunter S.
Thompson during the critical and catalytic years between
1968 and 1971, through April 28 at various venues. (Call for
times and locations. $10-$15 from www.gonzoduke.com.)
Ferris Wheel Productions presents The Star-Spangled
action-adventure about a ship
Girl, Neil Simon's hilarious play about two young educat- i wrecked family's battles with
ed roommates who struggle earnestly to publish a liberal
bloodthirsty pirates and wild
political magazine with a beautiful blond conservative from
animals, May 4-27 at North
the South living next door, through April 21 at Interstate
west Neighborhood Cultural
Firehouse Cultural Center. (Call for times. 5340 N Interstate
Center. (Call for times. 1819 NW
Ave $21 at the door, $17 in advance from 503-616-4791.)
Everett St. $16-$20 from
503-222-4480)
Firehouse Theatre presents Avian Fable, dancer/
choreographer Suniti Dernovsek's fantastical perform
ance that brings visual artist David Stein's surreal
paintings to life on stage, May 3-6. (8 pm. 1346 SW
Montgomery St. $10413 from 503-913-8959.)
Gresham Little Theater presents The Man Who Came to
Dinner, a raucous comedy about a 1940s household that's
upturned when a high-profile guest slips on the doorstep
and breaks his hip, May 4-20. (7:30 pm Friday and
Saturday, 2 pm Sunday 30639 SE Bluff Road $10 from
503-267-2750.)
Hand2Mouth Theatre presents Repeat After Me, one part
karaoke sing-along gone wrong, one part dance theater
and one part nightmare to get at the heart of what it means
to be an American, through April 29 at Goldsmith
Performance Lab. (8 pm Thursday-Sunday. 20 NW Fifth
Ave. $10-$15 sliding scale from 503-235-5284.)
Imago Theatre ends the 20-year run of Frogz, perhaps
the most famous show to originate from Oregon, through
April 29. (Call for times. 17 SE Eighth Ave $16427 from
503-231-9581.)
Lakewood Theatre Company presents Oklahoma!,
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical love story about
a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys,
April 27-June 10. (Call for times. 368 S State St., Lake
Oswego $26428 from 503-635-3901.)
Liminal Performance Group presents The Theory of Love,
a traveling multimedia lecture-opera proving conclusively
that everyone's favorite emotion is more than mere hypoth
esis, through April 29 at various venues. (8 and 10 pm
Friday and Saturday, 8 pm Sunday. Call for locations. $8-
$15 sliding scale from 503-890-2993.)
Miracle Theatre Group presents Rosalba y los
Uaveros, a Spanish-language comedy of manners
in which a defiant young woman tries to "liberate" her
cousins from their provincial lives, through April 28. English
supertitles at all shows except Saturdays. This
twisty extended-family sitcom/soap opera is
performed with energy and aplomb by a fun,
high-pitched ensemble despite occasional
overdone moments and an overlong script that
doesn't know when to end. Suggestion for
non-Spanish speakers: Abandon subtitles and
just watch energetic, honest performances of
this engaging, entertaining evening. (7:30 pm
Thursday, 8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm
Sunday. 525 SE Stark St. $15-$ 18 from
503-236-7253.)
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Northwest Children's Theater presents
Swiss Family Robinson, a swashbuckling
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Theatre Vertigo presents Tango, a tragifarce about a son
who wants to bring order to his free-spirited family of
bohemians but brings about the destruction of the world
as he knows it, April 27-May 26 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm
Thursday-Saturday 3430 SE Belmont St. $15 from
503-306-0870; Thursdays are “pay what you will.")
Portland State University presents Mozart's comic satire
Cost Fan Tutte April 27-May 5 at Lincoln Hall. (Call for
times. 1620 SW Park Ave. $12415 from 503-725-3307.)
Readers Theatre Repertory presents the West Coast
premiere of Address Unknown, the story of a German Jew
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Performance Works North
west presents Describing the
Line, Faith Hunt Levine's
Surreal paintings come to life in dancer/choreographer Suniti
modern dance concert rooted in
Dernovsek's Avian Fable May 3-6 at Firehouse Theatre.
political frustration and pep
pered with hope for self and
and a German gentile separated by an ocean, divided by
community empowerment, April 27-May 5. (8 pm Friday-
world politics and devastated by moral choices, through
Sunday. 4625 SE 67th Ave. $8-$15 sliding scale from
April 29 at Brunish Hall. (Call for times. 1111 SW
www pdxartix. com.)
Broadway $11.50423.50 from TicketsWest.)
Portland Center Stage presents Fences. August Wilson's
Slocum House Theatre presents Vanities, a bittersweet
Pulitzer and Tony-winner exploring the African-American
comedy that chronicles the divergent lives of three Texas
experience in mid-20th century America, through May 6 in
girls, through May 13. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 4 pm
Gerding Theater at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW
Sunday. 605 Esther St., Vancouver, Wash. $8 $ 10 from
11th Ave. $28459.50 from 503-445-3700.)
360-696-2427.)
Portland Center Stage presents Bad Dates, a one-woman
Stumptown Stages revives Grease with a twist—
show about a single working mother who manages an
featuring an all-star Portland cast resurrecting their roles
upscale Manhattan restaurant and decides to start dating
in the musical 30 years later—May 4-June 30 at World
again, through June 10 in Gerding Theater at the Armory.
Trade Center Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday. 121 SW
(Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. $21.50441.50 from
Salmon
St. $25427 from 503-381-8686.)
503-445-3700.)
New Group Theatre Company presents
Extremities, a brutal story of attempted rape,
retribution and moral dilemma, April 26 May 6
at Theater Theatre. (7:30 pm Thursday-
Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St.
$12-$ 15 from 503-283-5649.)
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Oregon Children's Theatre
presents the West Coast
premiere of a hip-hop adapta
tion of Stephen Crane's much
loved Civil War story The Red
Badge of Courage May 5-20 at
Winningstad Theatre. (2 and
7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm
Sunday. 1111 SW Broadway.
$18423 from 503-228-9571.)
Profile Theatre Project continues its Wendy
Wasserstein season with The Sisters Rosensweig,
a night of bickering and bonding among siblings on a search
for love, self-definition and fulfillment—whether it's with
a gay man, as a Jewish woman in a WASP world or by
seeking out a pair of designer heels—through April 22 at
Theater Theatre. This is a well-crafted, polished production
with a comforting sheen of tradition reflecting the hard
lessons of happiness and fulfillment. Performances are
compassionate, maturely drawn—and often very funny—
from a uniformly generous and keenly composed ensemble
(especially Barbara Kerr's genuinely complex Sara and
Shelly Lipkin's disarming Mervyn, not to mention Leif Norby
strutting around in boxers). (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 and
7 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $10428 from
503-242-0080)
New Century Players presents Fatal Passage,
a dinner theater murder mystery aboard
a trans-Atlantic ocean liner, through April 28 at
The Ainsworth House. Formal dress encour
aged. (6:30 pm Friday and Saturday. 19130 Lot
Whitcomb Drive, Oregon City. $40 from
503-367-2620.)
Transgender butch Kestryl Lowrey explores the theme of
testosterone in XY(T) April 24 and 26 at Lewis & Clark.
Oregon Ballet Theatre pre
sents the company premiere of
George Balanchine's masterful
Apollo along with encores of
two lighthearted audience
favorites (including Eyes on You,
artistic director Christopher
Stowell's tribute to Cole Porter)
April 27-May 5 at Newmark
Theatre. (Call for times.
1111 SW Broadway $16 $ 105
from 503-2-BALLET.)
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The Tragedies Theatre Company presents Beyond the
Fringe, a legendary British comedy revue featuring sketch
es about capital punishment, schmaltzy World War II prop
aganda, stupid people in the media, royalty, Shakespeare
and weapons of mass destruction, through May 5 at Village
Ballroom. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday 700 NE Dekum St. $10
from 503-367-2100; opening night is “pay what you will. “)
White Bird presents Dayton Contemporary Dance
Company's dazzling tribute to majestic painter Jacob
Lawrence Apnl 25 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. (7:30pm
1037 SW Broadway $19443 from Ticketmaster)
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