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MARCH 21, 2008 JUStfOUt 37 on stage Artists Repertory Theatre presents The Rab bit Hole, a Pulitzer-winning drama that uses a velvet scalpel to dissect the most personal of domestic tragedies—the death of a child, through March 23. (Call for times. 1516 SW Alder St. $20447 from 503-241-1278.) $10428 from 503-242-0080.) Sally Tomato presents Toy Room, a rock opera that chronicles the enigmatic perfor mance artist's chaotic life story, from an imaginative youth to an abusive marriage, April 4-6 at Wonder Ballroom. Proceeds benefit Portland Women's Crisis Line. (7 and 9 pm Friday and Saturday, 1 pm Sunday. 128 NE Russell St. $19 from box office or Ticketmaster.) Blue Door Productions presents sketch troupe The 3rd Floor in That's Entertainment? A History of Comedy through March 22 at Miracle Theatre. (8 pm. 525 SE Stark St. $12 from 503-627-9847.) Cacophony Productions presents The Bible: The Complete Word of God, in which three hilarious young men take us on an irrever ent romp through the sacred text, through March 29 at Firehouse Theater. (8 pm Thurs day-Saturday. 1436 SW Montgomery St. $7- $12 from 503-310-0771.) Cirque du Soleil presents Corteo, about a festive funeral imagined by a clown to illus trate the portion of humanity that is within each of us, extended through April 13 un der the blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau. (Call for times. Southwest Moody Avenue south of the Marquam Bridge. $35-$85 from 800-678-5440.) Curious Productions presents Swingers: Live Improvised Comedy through April 5 at The ater Theatre. (10:30 pm Saturday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $10 from 503-432-8633.) Integrity Productions presents Scotland Road, about a woman found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic who is interrogated about her connection to the Titanic, through April 5 at Theater The atre. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 4 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $ 15 from 503-286-3456; Thursdays are “pay what you will.") Lakewood Theatre Company presents The Full Monty, gay playwright Terrence McNally's musical adaptation of the popular film about unemployed steelworkers who form an unlikely stripteaser troupe, through April 13. (Call for times. 368 S State St., Lake Oswego. $23425 from 503-635-3901.) Miracle Theatre presents Oyá: Call the Storm, a bilingual dance theater production Sharon Knorr Productions presents Why Can't I Marry the Cute Beatle, a one-woman show about life and death, love and loneli ness, growing older and finding the joke in it all, through March 29 at West End Theatre. (8 pm Friday and Saturday. 1220 SW Taylor St. $18422 from 503-699-3309.) about a feminine warrior of the Afro-Cuban Yoruba tradition who controls destruc tive forces of nature, April 4-26. (7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 525 SE Stark St. $15420 from 503-236-7253.) Northwest Children's Theater presents Go, Dog. Go!— a rollicking free-for-all mu sical world of crooning canines that dance and drive—March 22-April 6 at Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center. (Call for times. 1819 NW Everett St. $10420 from 503-222-4480.) Northwest Classical Theatre Company presents An Afternoon of One Acts featur ing Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" and Eugene O'Neill's "The Sniper" through March 30 at Shoebox Theater. (2 pm Sunday. 2110 SE 10th Ave. $5 from 971-244-3740.) PassinArt: A Theatre Company presents The Diva Daughters DuPree, a thought-pro voking dramatic comedy about three Afri can-American sisters who reunite 10 years after their parents’ death, through April 13 at Imago Theatre. (7:30 pm Friday and Sat urday, 3 pm Saturday and Sunday. 17 SE Eighth Ave. $20 from www.passinart.org.) Penplay presents Boxes, a unique look at a young person rebelling against the gen der identities placed upon us by society, and Escaping Chinatown, about a young woman who challenges her parents' ethnic boundaries and racial preconceptions, March 28 and 29 at Conduit. (8pm. 918 SW Yamhill St. #401. $8.) Portland Center for the Performing Arts presents Too Much Coffee Man Opera: The Refill, the world's first opera based on a comic book, about an idealistic hero's quest to win the affections of a barista, April 4-20 at Brunish Hall. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway. $23.75428.75 from box office or Ticketmaster.) Golden Globe nominee Kaki King (Into the Wild) performs March 22. Portland Center Stage presents A Feminine Ending, an eye-open ing exploration of ambition, identity and actualization in Generation XX, through March 23 in Gerding The ater at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. $16.50461.50 from 503-445-3700.) A PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV OR AT RISK WHO ARE INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT WAYS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PARTNERS. Portland Center Stage presents the world premiere of Sometimes a Great Notion, based on Oregon author Ken Kesey's wild and woo ly portrait of an Oregon coastal logging com munity, April 4-27 in Gerding Theater at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. $26.50443.50 from 503-445-3700.) Profile Theatre Project continues its John Guare season with Landscape of the Body, an absurdist drama about the American dream gone awry, through April 6 at Theater Theatre. (Call for times. 3430 SE Belmont St. Sowelu Theater presents Star of Hope, a hilarious comedy of manners set in the Midwest, through April 5 at Back Door The ater. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 4 pm Sun day. 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. $12418 from 503-730-9066.) Staged presents the epic Tony-winning mu sical Les Misérables with a cast of local stu dents between 9 and 20 years old March 28- April 6 at World Trade Center Theatre. (Call for times. 121 SW Salmon St. $21425 from 971-322-5723.) White Bird presents a thrilling collaboration between Urban Bush Women and Compag nie Jant-Bi focusing on differing cultural landscapes and shared heritage April 2 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. (7:30 pm. 1037 SW Broadway. $20450 from box of fice or Ticketmaster.) White Bird presents the West Coast de but of gravity-defying Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company from Buenos Aires, Ar gentina, in Air Condition April 3-5 at Port land State University's Lincoln Hall. (8 pm. 1620 SW Park Ave. $16426 from box office or Ticketmaster.) Comedian Belle Barth also used to say, “I don’t mean to be vulgar, but it’s profitable.” Likewise, Portland theater producer Don Hom knows that what’s a little risqué can be parlayed into a big niche. An original founder of one of the oldest gay-themed the aters on the West Coast, Hom has more recently turned Triangle Productions onto off-Broadway shows that have featured bitches who sing, drag queen beauty contestants, a rock ’n’ roll tranny and a squeaky-clean boy band from the days of Ed Sullivan. Even now as Triangle closes a successful new rock biop era about the troubled life of former Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding, Hom is opening the Northwest premiere of The Jewish American Princesses of Comedy Show. Wendy Westerville (left) and Francine Raften star in The Jewish American Princesses of Comedy Show. Created by Cory Kahaney (NBC’s Last Comic Standing), the show’s Web site. “You like theater; we like theater. You The J.A.P. Show’s Stumptown cast features local person alities Francine Raften and Wendy Westerville. Through like musicals; we like musicals. We had Barbra Streisand; you wanted Barbra Streisand.” personal stories, standup comedy and vintage footage, these Speaking with New York Press’ Leonard Jacob during funny girls deliver a hilarious homage to “dirty” Jewish women comics such as Barth, Pearl Williams, Jean Carroll, Betty Walker and Totie Fields—women who through their club acts and adult party records exploded the myth of the the show’s original run at New York City’s Actors Temple (“a synagogue by day, a Hell’s Kitchen theatrical hot spot undersexed, overshopped housewife of the 1950s. Another niche, perhaps, but one that Kahaney finds by night”), Kahaney also notes how “Bette Midler took tons of Belle Barth’s jokes for her act, then drag queens took them, then cross-dressers. The common theme is op pression—having your sexuality pushed down.” tied to the queer community. “Jewish women have always felt different and gawky The J.A.P. Show plays through April 12 at CoHo The ater, 2257 N.W. Raleigh St. Tickets are $18-$23 from and freaky growing up, and I think they share that with a 503-239-5919 or www.tripro.org. lot of gay men,” suggests Kahaney in a video interview on —Timothy Krause Maintaining the architectural integrity of historic homes since ‘96 SUPPORTING HEAITHY OPTIONS FOR PREVENTION WWW.OHSU EOU/PARTNERSHIP Wood Windows & Storms Wood Door Replacements & Tune-Ups SUPPORTING HEALTHY OPTIONS FOR PREVENTION For a confidential intake, contact Fine Finish Carpentry 503-230-1202 or Services available statewide SERVICIOS DISPONIBLES EN ESPAÑOL Triangle Productions presents the North west premiere of The J.A.P. Show, in which three Jewish female comics salute the trail blazing and treasured pioneers of comedy with their own zany stories and hilarious standup, through April 12 at CoHo Theatre. (Call for times. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $18423 from 503-239-5919.) 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