may
1.ÌL¿22Z JUStpUt 33
I
Artists Repertory Theatre presents They Came
June 10. (Call for times. 368 S State St., Lake Oswego.
from Way Out There, a paranormal musical revue
$26428 from 503-635-3901.)
set on the wildest outer fringes of American paranoid pop
Miracle Theatre Group presents ¡Viva Baile!, a new
culture, through May 27. This is an engaging premise of
dance production featunng members of Tango Berretin and
alien infestation, but liftoff sputters. Though there are
Flamenco Arts Academy, through May 27. (7:30 pm
several memorable interstellar moments of physical and
Thursday, 8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 525 SE
found-object comedy, the show could make much, much
Stark it. $15420 from 503-236-7253.)
more of this material. When not jack-hammering the fourth
wall, talented, the zany cast fights hard to escape the I Miracle Theatre Group revives Frida, un retablo, its crit
ically acclaimed bilingual work about the life of bisexual
orbital pull of this mostly known, earthbound script. (Call
artist Frida Kahlo, May 31. (7:30 pm. 525 SE Stark St.
for times. 1516 SW Alder St. $15442.50 from
$13418 from 503-236-7253.)
503-241-1278.)
Artists Repertory Theatre presents Orson's Shadow,
a comedy about the colliding egos of screen legends Orson
Welles and Laurence Olivier, May 22-July 1. (Call for times.
1516 SW Alder St. $32.50447.50 from 503-241-1278.)
A Blue Monkey Theater Co. presents Disney's
High School Musical through May 27 at the West
End Theatre. A huge, energetic, gregarious and fun-loving
cast lands somewhere between Saved by the Bell and
Fame. (7 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Saturday and
Sunday. 1220 SW Taylor St. $ 16420 from 503-777-4506.)
BodyVox presents Reverie, an evening of eight contem
porary dances and two short films that create a world of
beauty, strength and delight with a bit of humor, through
May 19 at Newmark Theatre. (7:30 pm. 1111 SW
Broadway. $10436 from 503-229-0627.)
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, through June 2. (8 pm
Friday and Saturday. 1825 SE Franklin St. $12415 from
503-772-4005.)
Northwest Children's
Swiss Family
Children s Theater presents
prÿi
Robinson, a swashbuckling action-adventure about a ship-
wrecked family's battles with bloodthirsty pirates and wild
animals, through May 27 at Northwest Neighborhood
Cultural Center. (Call for times. 1819 NW Everett St. $16-
$20 from 503-222-4480.)
Northwest Classical Theatre Company presents
Macbeth, William Shakespeare's story of the villainous
Scot and his conniving wife, through June 3 at Shoe Box
Theater. (7 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 2110 SE
10th Ave $12418 from 503-262-5503.)
(ffiSfA Oregon Children's Theatre presents the West
Coast premiere of a hip-hop adaptation of Stephen
Crane's much-loved Civil War story The Red Badge of
Courage through May 20 at Winningstad Theatre. This is
the real thing—an outstanding ensemble of Andrés Alcalá,
Joño Eiland, Chase Fulton and John San Nicolas brings this
adaptation to powerful, painful life without a wasted
moment in this 65-minute tour of internal and external bat
tlefields. Scorching. Relevant. Compelling. (2 and 7:30 pm
Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 1111 SW Broadway. $18423 from
503-228-9571.)
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon presents a reading of
Oslund + Company/Dance presents Sky, a new work
Necessity, gay playwright William S. Gregory's adaptation
featuring brazen, powerful, technically demanding chore
of the story of Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War
J ography, through May 20 at Imago Theatre. (8 pm Friday
transferred to an African-American community in the Deep
and Saturday, 7:30 pm Sunday 17 SE Eighth Ave. $14415
South at the end of World War I, May 20 and 21 at Theater
from 503-221-5857.)
Theatre. (7 pm. 3430 SE Belmont St.)
Portland Center Stage presents Bad Dates, a one-
C0H0 Productions presents the Northwest premiere of
woman show about a single working mother who
My Matisse, depicting the vibrant painter through the eyes
manages an upscale Manhattan restaurant and decides to
of the seven most important women in his life, through
start dating again, through June 10 in Gerding Theater at
June 2. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 2257 NW
the Armory. Imagine looking for love in all the wrong labels.
Raleigh St. $20423 from 503-220-2646.)
Bad Dates is filled with mass-produced language and an
Defunkt Theatre presents the world
prerrflere of In Apparati, a poetic and
fragmentary examination of captivity, 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, through May 26 at
Back Door Theater. Surrounded by elaborate
sound and video elements, an uneasy spooki
ness rides ripples of revelation among other
wise deep, still waters of such tranquil, dozy
tone that metaphors sometimes floated
untethered to storyline. (8 pm Thursday-
Sunday. 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. $10415
from 503-481-2960; Thursdays and Sundays
are “pay what you will. ”)
Lincoln City's Theatre West stages Sordid Lives through May 26.
unexceptional story drowned out by frenetic, nonstop shoe
and clothing changes. Despite its kitchen sink TV sitcom
realism, the character's social background and milieu are
decidedly unreal. Instead, one receives an unintentional
critique of consumer culture and the shopping mindset as
applied to NYC dating. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave.
$21.50441.50 from 503-445-3700.)
Portland Opera presents Mozart's The Magic Flute May 19
at Keller Auditorium. (7:30 pm. 222 SW Clay St $39-5140
from Ticketmaster.)
Portland Opera's Broadway Across America presents
the Tony-winning musical Chicago starring Lisa Rinna
{Dancing with the Stars) May 29-June 3 at Keller
Auditorium. (Call for times. 222 SW Clay St. $23-$68 from
Ticketmaster.)
Portland State University presents Vinegar Tom, the
story of two 17th century farm women who are named as
witches by a man whom they have
spurned sexually, juxtaposing scenes
from the witch hunts of the 1650s with
contemporary musical commentary,
May 25-June 2 at Lincoln Hall. (7:30pm
Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday.
$3.5049.50
from
503-725-3307;
Wednesday is "Pay-What-You-CAN"
Affair in conjunction with Oregon Food
Bank.)
Profile Theatre Project continues its
Wendy Wasserstein season with
Uncommon Women and Others, her
breakthrough play about students at an
all-female college who graduate in the
late 1960s with high hopes for—and
uncertainty about—what the future
holds, through June 17 at Theater
Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday,
2 and 7 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont
St. $10428 from 503-242-0080.)
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, through May 20. (7:30 pm
Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 30639 SE
Bluff Road. $10 from 503-267-2750.)
Lakewood Theatre Company presents
Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's musi
cal love story about a high-spirited rivalry
between local farmers and cowboys, through
eatingout
Outspoken poet Rachel Zolf reads May 20 at New American Art Union.
eatingout
eatingout
eatingout
eatingout
Profile Theatre Project concludes
its Wendy Wasserstein season with
a staged reading of Three, her final play
questioning the liberal world of acade
mia about a professor who accuses
a young wrestler of plagiarizing a paper.
eatingout
June 3-13 at Theater Theatre. (7 pm Sunday-Wednesday.
3430 SE Belmont St. $10-$ 15 from 503-242-0080.)
Stumptown Stages revives Grease with a twist—featuring
an all-star Portland cast resurrecting their roles in the musi
cal 30 years later—through June 30 at World Trade Center
Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday. 121 SW Salmon St.
$25427 from 503-381-8686.)
Theater Theatre presents Thinking Outside MyGox, Ritah
Parrish's one-woman cocktail of brute-abulous self-discovery
garnished with a whole mess of funny, through May 25.
(11 pm Friday and Saturday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $12.)
tf53§A 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 destruc
tion of the world as he knows it, through May 26 at
Theater Theatre. This fascinating, well-chosen script
receives a production reminiscent of a bull in a china shop.
Nevertheless, the cast is game and plays along, with sev
eral actors showing new facets unseen elsewhere. (8 pm
Thursday-Saturday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $15 from
503-306-0870; Thursdays are "pay what you will.")
Theatre West in Lincoln City presents Sordid Lives, a black
comedy about denizens of a Texas trash cultural black hole
who play out their lives against a backdrop of cigarettes,
roll-up hair curlers, Airstream trailers and cross-dressing
worship of Tammy Wynette, through May 26. (8 pm
Thursday-Saturday 3536 SE Highway 101. $9410 from
541-994-5663.)
Third Rail Repertory Theater presents A Lesson
from Aloes, an award-winning psychological
mystery of friendship and politics set during "the silent
’60s" in South Africa, through June 2 at Interstate
Firehouse Cultural Center. Fugard's challenging tale of per
sonal betrayal, fear and political exhaustion struggles hard
to put down roots. The chemistry between coqple Piet and
Gladys feels incomplete, somehow off-key, partially owing
to significant age difference, until the arrival of Steve in Act
Two, which brings welcome relief to this parched land
scape. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 5340 N
Interstate Ave. $15424 from 503-235-1101.)
Reviewed by TIMOTHY KRAUSE or WINSTON
GOODBODY. Read mure and comment at
follou>s|x)t.blogs|x)t.com.
eatingout
eatingout
A D III O I Tr II I
MK. MOTO
World CuiNine and Supper Club
A bu il ri ran
NEW OWNERSHIP, NEWLY RENOVATED, NEWLY EXPANDED MENU
10% OFF!
dine
in
or
Jim Chan as your host
(once voted Best Host In the city by Willamette Week)
Dance to live Cabaret-Style Performances
Friday and Saturday Nights 6:30 to 9:30pm
healthy asian food
503-221-3045
Renowned Entertainer
out
BREAKFAST BUFFET All you can eat
Saturday and Sunday 8am til 3pm $6.95
413 NW 21st Ave. • Portland. OR 97209
(BETWEEN
FLANDERS & GLISAN)
50) 285 9489 • www.dadsdining.com
8608 N Lombard in Historic St. Johns
* . Y
25 ITEM LUNCH BUFFET
All you can aat! (includes soft drinks)
Authentic South &
North Indian Cuisine
503-671-0432
TAKE-OUT * CATEMM
MENTION
Authentic South & North Indian Cuisine
_____ www.abhirucliirestaurant.corn
DAD’S
THIS AD FOR
at ingout
OPT CfRTVICAnS
MENU CHANGES DAILY
Lunch Buffet 11:30am-2 30pm
Dinner 5:00pm-9:30pm
I
50% OFF DINNER SPECIAL l
I
Buy one Dinnet Entree et regular pnce get 2nd
I Dinner Entree of equal or leaser value for 1/2 pnce I
I
Valid 5pm-*30om S.Bday-Th.raday
I
I
With Coupon • Exp 5/31/07