on stage
Artists Repertory Theatre presents House
and Garden, two interlocking plays about a
highly comic series of catastrophes and inter
twined relationships during a luncheon and a
midsummer maypole feete, performed simul
taneously on two separate stages with a sin
gle cast that dashes madly back and forth,
through Oct. 14. (Call for times. 1516 SW
Alder St $20-547 from 503-241-1278.)
Artists Repertory Theatre and Youth
Resources present The Ghosts of Celilo,
a powerful musical about three children’s
quest to escape a boarding school and catch
their ceremonial first salmon before their
home is destroyed by a Columbia River dam,
Sept. 27-Oct. 14 at Newmark Theater. (Call for
times 1111 SW Broadway. $21.50-550 from
box office or Ticketmaster.)
Arts Equity presents queer playwright Edward
Albee's Seascape, a fascinating dialogue
between a middle-aged couple and two lizards
seeking life on the land, through Oct. 13. (Call
for times 606 Main St., Vancouver, Wash $10-
$24 from 360-695-3770.)
Carla Oamaris Grant presents Sun-Clothed
Woman, her performance piece that uses
songs of the past, dreams of the future and a
No. 8 wrench to address the end of the world,
through Oct. 7 at Hipbone Studio. (8 pm Friday
and Saturday, 6 pm Sunday. 1847 E Burnside
St. # 104.)
who takes New York by storm during the
Roanng '20s, through Oct. 21. (Call for times.
368 S State St., Lake Oswego. $23-$25 from
503-635-3901.)
Miracle Theatre presents the Northwest pre
miere of Mariela in the Desert, a deadly mys
tery about what happens to a family when
creativity is forced to dry and wither away,
through Oct. 13. (7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm
Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday 525 SE
Stark St. $15-$20 from 503-236-7253.)
Northwest Children's Theater presents
Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical, hatched
from Hans Christian Andersen's timeless tale,
Oct. 5-28 at Northwest Neighborhood Cultural
Center. (7 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm
Saturday and Sunday. 1819 NW Everett St
$16-$20 from 503-222-4480.)
Northwest Classical Theatre Company
presents A Midsummer Night's Dream,
William Shakespeare's naughty, irreverent tale
of lovers, fairies and makers of plays, through
Sept. 30 at Shoebox Theater. (7 pm Thursday-
Saturday, 2 pm Sunday 2110 SE 10th Ave
$12-$18 from 971-244-3740.)
p.boy productions presents Boys Will Be:
Alone in Our Rooms, an interactive exploration
into the lives of boys and the discoveries
made while alone in their rooms featuring The
Gender Fluids with installation artist Dallas
Oliver, through Sept. 29 at Wonder Ballroom.
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon presents
(8 pm Friday and Saturday. 128 NE Russell St.
Peace, based on the play by Aristophanes, I $10.)
through Sept. 30 at Reed College's Cerf
Theatre. (Call for times. 3203 SE Woodstock
Blvd $10-$20 from Brown Paper Tickets.)
Play After Play presents The Boatman's Flute.
a children's play about a mandarin's daughter
enchanted by a man who is not what she
thought, followed by an opportunity for kids to
interact with the performers, through Sept. 23
at Brooklyn Bay. (10 am Saturday. 2 pm
Sunday. 1825 SE Franklin St. Bay K. $6 from
503-772-4005.)
Portland Center Stage presents Cabaret, a cel
ebrated musical set in Berlin during the rise of
the Third Reich, Sept. 28-Oct. 21 in Gerding
Theater at the Armory. (Call for times 128 NW
11th Ave. $ 18 50-$63 50 from 503-445-3700 )
Portland Civic Theatre Guild presents a read
ing of the Elizabethan Vaudeville production
Greensleeves Oct. 2 at The Old Church.
(10:30 am. 1422 SW 11th Ave $6)
Portland Metro Performing Arts Center
presents Wot Flashes, a long-running musical
that follows the career of a five-woman band
from their 40s to their 70s, Sept. 29 Oct. 21.
(Call for times. 9933 SE Pine St $20-$24 from
503-775-8017.)
Portland Opera opens its 2007-08 "Great
Women of the Stage" Season with Bizet's
Carmen Sept. 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29 at Keller
Auditorium. (7:30pm. 222 SW Clay St. $41.75-
$147.75 from box office or Ticketmaster )
Portland
Opera's
Broadway
Across
America presents Lerner 8 Loewe's Camelot
Oct. 2-7 at Keller Auditorium. (Call for times.
222 SW Clay St. $23-$68 from Ticketmaster)
Public Playhouse presents The Nerd, a side
splitting comedy about the houseguest from
hell, Sept. 28-Oct. 13 at CoHo Theatre. (7:30pm
Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 2257 NW
Raleigh St. $14-$16 from 503-922-0532.)
Skinner/Kirk Dance Ensemble presents gay
choreographer Eric Skinner's abstract piece
addressing the strength, grace and momentum
that drive our existence in urban living, set to
the moody music of Brian Eno and Yo-Yo Ma,
Sept. 22 at BodyVox Studio. (7:31 and 9:01 pm
1300 NW Northrup St $10-$20 sliding scale
from skmnerkirkdance@hotmail. com.)
Slocum House Theatre presents Dearly
Beloved, in which three sisters throw a gossip
generating wedding in their small Texas town,
through Sept. 30. (8 pm Friday and Saturday,
4 pm Sunday. 605 Esther St., Vancouver, Wash
$8 $ 10 from 360-696-2427 )
Theatre Vertigo presents A Doll's House, Henrik
Ibsen's classic in which a woman's forgery of
her husband's signature sets into a motion a
series of events that call into question the valid
ity of their marriage, through Sept. 22 at Theater
Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday. 3430 SE
Belmont St. $15 from 503-306-0870.)
Lou Diamond Phillips stars in Lerner ft
Loewe's Camelot Oct. 2-7.
Third Rail Repertory presents Grace, a dark
comedy about a devout couple who develop a
chain of Gospel-themed "Sonrise" motels in
Florida, Sept. 28-Oct. 27 at Interstate
Firehouse Cultural Center. 18 pm Thursday-
Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 5340 N Interstate
Ave. $16-$25 from 503-235-1101.)
3-Moment Players present Balls!— three one-
act plays by gay Oscar-winning playwnght Alan
Ball [American Beauty, Six Feet Under}—
through Sept. 22 at CoHo Theatre. (8 pm
2257 NW Raleigh St $15 from 503-746-4209.)
White Bird launches its 10th anniversary sea
son with masterworks by Paul Taylor Dance
Company Oct. 3 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert
Hall. (7 30 pm. 1037 SW Broadway. $20-$50
from box office or Ticketmaster.)
Two Sides to Every Story
Even more interesting than the fete of a single
Defunkt Theatre presents The Lesser Magoo,
a funny, thought-provoking play about a woman
working at a cutthroat office whose supervisor
invites her to a dinner party, through Oct. 13 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.")
Integrity Productions presents the world pre
miere of 8 Views Toward Center, comparing
and contrasting women from an ancient
Persian to a circus performer from 1808 to a
"devil" from the 1950s, Oct. 4-Nov. 3 at
Theater Theatre. fl? pm Thursday-Saturday,
4 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $12-$15
from 503-286-3456; Thursdays are $5-$ 1,000
sliding scale.)
Joan Freed presents Chocolate Confessions,
her one-woman musical comedy about a
chocolate shop owner and her mixed assort
ment of hilarious customers, through Nov. 18
at World Trade Center Theater. (7:30 pm
Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 25 SW
Salmon St. $29 from 503-784-6220.)
tandem
adjacent theaters at the same time is the percep
checked each other’s progress, and time was
tion,
tracked at the bottom of each page of dialogue
as
prolific
British
playwright
Alan
fashion,
baby
monitors
to ensure the two prcxluctions were aligned.
While House and Garden only refers to
is the throughline of Artists Repertory Theatre’s
rather than rousts gays and lesbians, Mulligan
diptych House and Garden, two standalone sto
notes that the characters’ relationship conflicts
ries that together reflect the multiple facets of love
are universal. “Heterosexuals haven’t Cornered
and marriage.
the market on miscommunication,” to which
“Everybody has a story to tell, and we can get
Widener adds, “It doesn’t matter what sexuality
so caught up in our own situations, we forget that
the characters are—any person in a committed
the world doesn’t revolve around us,” elaborates
relationship will recognize and identify in some
Stephanie Mulligan, who with Laura Widener
way to the trials and tribulations that go on in
are the wife-wife stage management team for
unhealthy relationships, how one person’s pec
these twin tales. “How about when you go to a
cadilloes can so strongly effect and resonate in
party at a friend’s house? There are people you
everyone else’s lives.”
In observing Ayckbourn’s comedy when
see—and who only see yod—in that context.
writing about love, lust and its wake, Mulligan
And if that’s your only context for another per
sums up the shows by quoting a line from one of
son, you form an opinion based on that context.”
the scripts: “Love is essentially a very simple
Likewise onstage, where the main character
business. But in the hands of human beings, it
of one play necessarily plays a smaller role in the
Fete organizers Barry (gay actor Michael Mendelson) and Lindy
(Marjorie Tatum) give the penguins a test-drive in Garden.
timeline
players in other people’s lives.” That simple insight
know well, and friends of friends who you only
Key Productions presents a staged reading of
Patrick Marber's Closer— with a gay twistl—
Sept. 29 at Vino Vixens. (8 pm. 2929 SE
Powell Blvd. $10 donation.)
shows. Scripts were tacked on studio walls in
cast performing two interconnected plays in two
Ayckbourn offers, that “we are all of us walk-on
Imago Theatre presents Double Feature, featur
ing the one-act dark comedies The Father-thing
and Serial Killer Parents. Oct. 6-27. (7:30 pm
Thursday, 8 pm Friday and Saturday. 17 SE
Eighth Ave. $ 15-$22 from 503-231-3959.)
Lakewood Theatre Company presents
Thoroughly Modern Millie, based on the
Oscar-winning movie about a Kansas woman
Portland State University presents Albert
Camus' The Rope, based on the true story of
Russian Socialist revolutionaries who assas
sinated Grand Duke Sergei Romanov in 1905,
Sept. 28-Oct. 6 at Lincoln Hall. (7:30 pm
Thursday-Saturday 2 pm Sunday. 1620 SW
Park Ave $5 from 503-725-3307.)
often becomes monstrously complicated.”
other and vice-versa. Tables get turned quickly,
House and Garden continue through Oct. 14
and the ground began to shift at the beginning
at 1516 S.W. Alder St. Tickets are $20-$47 from
of rehearsals when actors were given mock pass
503-241-1278 or www.artistsrep.org.
ports indicating exits and entrances for both
—Timothy Krause
All You Need Is
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