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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.)
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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
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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
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$16-$26
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from
503-725-3307.
—Rebecca Ragain
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BalletLab's Origami takes inspiration from
Japanese traditional arts and pop culture.
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