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OCTOBER 5, 200/ jystput,?? on stage Artists Repertory Theatre presents House and Garden, two interlocking plays about a highly comic series of catastrophes and intertwined relationships dunng a luncheon and a midsum mer maypole fête, performed simultaneously on two separate stages with a single cast that dashes madly back and forth, through Oct. 14. (Call for times. 1516 SW Alder St. $20-$47 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, through Oct. 14 at Newmark Theater. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway. $21.50-$50 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.) Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents a reading of Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her. a wild bedroom farce involving infidelity, double standards, a midnight ren dezvous and a hungry bear, Oct. 14 at Tigard Community Friends Church. (2pm. 15800 SW Hall Blvd. $12 from 503-620-5262.) Carla Damaris 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. (8pm Friday and Saturday, 6 pm Sunday. 1847 E Burnside St. #104.) 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. “) 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-$22from 503-231-3959.) Integrity Productions presents the world premiere of 8 Views Toward Center, compar ing and contrasting women from an ancient Persian to a circus performer from 1808 to a “devil' from the 1950s, through Nov. 3 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $12-$ 15 from 503-286-3456; Thursdays are $5-$ 1,000 sliding scale.) Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center presents performance artist Jaime Lee Christiana's Chronicles of the Albino Blackbird Oct. 13-21. (2 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday. 5340 N Interstate Ave $10-$15 from 503-823-4322.) Joan Freed presents Chocolate Confessions, her one-woman musical comedy about a chocolate shop owner and her mixed assortment 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.) eating|out Joye Otto presents Waiting for Lefty, a raw and powerful piece of protest theater includ ing classic labor songs such as 'Union Maid' and 'Which Side Are You On?“ through Oct. 20 at Performance Works Northwest. (8 pm Friday and Saturday 4625 SE 67th Ave $10 from 503-473-6666 ) pants. Steve Martin's heartwarming comedy about a sex-deprived wife in pre-World War I Germany who accidentally drops her bloomers in front of the king, Oct. 19-Dec. 2 in Gerding Theater at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. $16.50-$43 50 from 503-445-3700.) Profile Theatre Project opens its John Guare season with Six Degrees of Separation, about a black, gay, self-educated and poor man who fools an upper-crust Manhattan family that he’s the son of Sidney Poitier, Oct. 13-Nov 11. (Call for times 3430 SE Belmont St $10-$28 from 503-242-0080) Lakewood Theatre Company presents Thoroughly Modern Millie, based on the Oscar-winning movie about a Kansas woman who takes New York by storm during the Roaring '20s, through Oct. 21. (Call for times 368 S State St., Lake Oswego $23-$25 from 503-635-3901.) Portland Metro Performing Arts Center presents Hot Flashes, a long-running musical that follows the career of a five-woman band from their 40s to their 70s, through Oct. .21. (Call for times. 9933 SE Pine St. $20-$24 from 503-775-8017.) Public Playhouse presents The Nerd, a side splitting comedy about the houseguest from hell, through Oct. 13 at CoHo Theatre. (7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday 2257 NW Raleigh St. $14-$16 from 503-922-0532.) Luciana Proano presents Dear Night, a bi lingual multidisciplinary performance that joy fully addresses the fears of children at night, Oct. 12-14 at Da Vinci Arts Auditorium. (7 pm Friday and Saturday, 6 pm Sunday 2508 NE Everett St. $5-$10from 503-977-0620.) Miracle Theatre presents the Northwest premiere of Mariela in the Desert, a deadly mystery 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.) Miriam Feder presents The Vestibule, her one-woman show featuring stories and poems of midlife transitions, Oct. 19 and 20 at HipBone Studio. (8 pm. 1847 E Burnside St. # 104. $15 at the door, $12 in advance from 503-309-7123.) Northwest Children's Theater presents Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical, hatched from Hans Christian Andersen's timeless tale, through Oct. 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 Children's Theater presents Twilight Tales, an homage to the iconic science fiction series The Twilight Zone, Oct. 19-27 at Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center. (10 pm Friday and Saturday. 1819 NW Everett St. $6-$10 from 503-222-4480.) Oregon Ballet Theatre presents/! Midsummer Night's Dream, newly choreographed by gay artistic director Christopher Stowell and fea turing sets and costumes inspired by Oregon’s old-growth forests, along with ballets by William Forsythe and James Kudelka Oct. 13-20 at Keller Auditorium. (Call for times. 222 SW Clay St. $ 14 $ 120 from 503-2-BALLFT) Oregon Children's Theatre presents Judy Blume's classic Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Oct. 21-Nov. 3 at Newmark Theatre. (11 am and 2 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 1111 SW Broadway $13-$24 from 503-228-9571.) Portland Center for the Performing Arts presents Defending the Caveman, an insight ful play about the ways men and women relate, Oct. 12-20 at Winningstad Theatre. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway. $43 from box office or Ticketmaster.) Portland Center Stage presents Cabaret, a celebrated musical set in Berlin during the rise of the Third Reich, extended through Nov. 4 in Gerding Theater at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. $18.50-$63.50 from 503-445-3700) Portland Center Stage presents The Under eatingiout eatingiout Portland Opera's Broadway Across America presents Lerner 6 Loewe's Camelot through Oct. 7 at Keller Auditorium. (Call for times 222 SW Clay St $23-$68 from Ticketmaster.) 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, through Oct. 6 at Lincoln Hall. (7:30 pm. 1620 SW Park Ave $5 from 503-725-3307.) St. Johns North End Players present Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam, about a homely hero who has a thing about Humphrey Bogart, Oct. 19-Nov. 4 at St. Andrews Episcopal Church. (Call for times 7600 N Hereford Ave. $8 $ 10 from 503-286-3679.) Third Rail Repertory presents Grace, a dark comedy about a devout couple who develop a chain of Gospel-themed "Sonrise" motels in Florida, through Oct. 27 at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 5340 N Interstate Ave $ 16-$25 from 503-235-1101.) Readers Theatre Repertory presents Riddance, that other Scottish play about mur der, betrayal and cleaners, Oct. 12 and 13 at Blackfish Gallery. (8 pm. 420 NW Ninth Ave. $8 from 503-295-4997.) The Tragedies Theater Company presents the second annual Theatre du Grand Guignol, the French theater of comedy and horror, Oct. 11-31 at Village Ballroom. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday plus 8 pm Oct 31. 700 NE Dekum St. $15 from 503-367-2100.) Slocum House Theatre presents the hilarious hoedown Nunsense Jamboree Oct. 12- Nov. 11. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. 605 Esther St., Vancouver, Wash $8- $10 from 360-696-2427.) White Bird presents Origami, the West Coast debut of BalletLab from Australia, Oct. 11-13 at Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall. (8 pm. 1620 SW Park Ave. $16-$26 from box office or Ticketmaster) Origami Enfolds Living Bodies, Visual Design, Architecture Dancer, lighting designer, composer. These are all culture, such as the Japanese titles we’re accustomed to seeing in our programs at cartoons that Adams watched danee performances. Rut have you ever read “origami as a kid. Adams describes it as adviser” in the list of credits, or any other mention of “part fictional myth and the ancient art of paper folding, for that matter? bastardization of contem You will if you go to see Ongami, a new dance by porary Japanese culture as Australian choreographer Phillip Adams. He formed his seen company, BalletLab, in 1998, after a decade of dancing values." in New York City with groundbreaking artists such as through Western Adams has called Origami Bebe Miller and Donna Uchizono. (Portlanders may his masterpiece: “My entire have recently seen Uchizono’s work at last month’s Time- history of works has been Based Art Festival.) committed to the fold, as Today, BalletLab is known as one of Australia’s most a conceptual choreographic experimental contemporary dance companies, with an • vocabulary. 1 feel that with emphasis on promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration Origami I have been able to between artists. articulate To create Origami, Adams gathered a team that he my indefatigable dedication and commitment thought could “contribute wholeheartedly to the vision.” to folding bodies and space.” Collaborators included composer David Chisholm; direc The Portland perform tors from both the design/image agency 3 Deep Design ance of Origami is the final and the award-winning firm Buro Architects; and origa stop on BalletLab’s first U.S. tour. mi expert Matthew Gardiner. Perhaps, if we give BalletLab Initially, Adams explains, Gardiner proposed a warm enough reception, Adams will “a highly conceptual mathematical and architectural return to Portland to present the dance he is vision that graphically maps, dictates and directs the creating: a queer ballet based on Jean choreography.” So Buro Architects created a complex Cocteau’s 1946 film Beauty and the Beast. set of moveable panels for the stage set, a landscape of folds that the dancers arrange and rearrange. BalletLab performs Origami 8 p.m. Oct. 11 to 13 at Portland State University’s Lincoln 3 Deep Design, Adams continues, took the origamist’s Hall, 1620 S.W. Park Ave., opening “tesselation folding formulas of repeated patterns" and White used computers to produce a sepia-toned film that Dance Series. Tickets instructs the dancers how to assemble the set. are The narrative takes inspiration from Japanese tradi tional arts like origami arid ikebana as well as from pop eatingiout eatingiout eatingiout Bird’s $16-$26 PSU from 503-725-3307. —Rebecca Ragain eatingiout BalletLab's Origami takes inspiration from Japanese traditional arts and pop culture. eatingiout eatingiout COME DINE AL FRESCO Nostrana r FRESH, LOCAL, WOOD-FIRED 503.234.2427 8338 N . Lom B3R.Ò 1401 SE Morrison www.nostrana.com Restaurant of the Vêar 2006 — 503-247-1066 503 (Oregonian
