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NOVEMBER 21, 2008 lUStjOUt a-/ 39 ActioiVAd venture Theatre presents Fall of the House (Season 3), an improvised sena! about seven room original offbeat material for a melodic, imaginative Jane: A Theater Company presents The Holly look at our annual traditions, Dec. 5-21. (Call for Jolly Hullabaloo!— a mates and their romantic entanglements, through times. 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard. $20-$30from tells the tale of Hansel and Gretel with rollicking Nov. 23 at Theater Theatre. (10:30 pm Friday and Sat 503-620-5262.) songs, dancing and silly jokes—Nov. 28-Dec. 28 at Theater Theatre. (7 pm Wednesday-Friday, 2 pm urday, 8 pm Sunday 3430 SE Belmont St. $10 from 503-425-9176; Fridays are "pay what you can.") CoHo Productions presents the Northwest pre miere of The Receptionist, in which an office's Artists Repertory Theatre presents Speech 8 familiar atmosphere takes a sinister turn when Mr Debate, a modem comedy that examines what it Dart from the central office arrives unexpectedly, family-friendly show that Saturday and Sunday. No shows Dec. 24 and 25. 3430 SE Belmont St. $10 from 503-286-3456.) Sunday. 7600 N Hereford St. $8410 from 503-705-2088.) Classical Northwest The atre Company presents Sher lock Holmes: The Speckled Band, in which the detective Lakewood Theatre Company presents Pulitzer investigates the suspicious death of a young woman means to connect with other people in our new through Nov. 22. (Call for times. 2257 NW Raleigh Prize winner You Can't Take It with You, about a at the behest of her sister, world of instant messaging, podcasts and social St. $20425 from 503-220-2646.) zany household where everyone does just what Nov. 21-Dec. 28 at Shoe Box networking Web sites, extended through Dec. 7. (Call for times. 1516 SW Alder St. $20447 from Collective of Geniuses presents the premiere of he or she pleases, through Dec. 14. (Call for times. 368 S State St., Lake Oswego. $26428 from urday, 2 pm Sunday. 2110 SE 503-241-1278.) Denial of Self, a play that looks at the creation of alter egos, or 'better' versions of ourselves, and Theater. (7 pm Thursday-Sat 503-635-3901.) 10th Lisa DeGrace presents Flying Iron, which utilizes 971-244-3740.) $15418 Ave. from Artists Repertory Theatre presents the world pre how the Internet is used to feed this narcissis miere of gay playwright Marc Acito's Holidazed, tic adoration and affirmation of self-importance, music, movement, costume, text and clowning Oregon a comedy about a middle-class couple taking in a Dec. 4-27 at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center. to explore the solitude of being alone, even when presents the Answers, starring Oregon Shakespeare Festival favorite homeless "goth* girl who hates the holidays and (Call for times. 5340 N Interstate Ave. $15420 surrounded by people, Dec. 5-14 at Performance discovering what it truly means to be a family, from 503-205-0715.) Works Northwest. (8 pm Friday-Sunday 4625 SE through Dec. 12. (Call for times. 1516 SW Alder St. $20447 from 503-241-1278.) Disjecta presents The Old Man, the Goat 8 the Son 67th Ave. $10415 from 503-757-0212.) of a Bitch, a comic spy drama that revolves around NewSpace Entertainment presents Jesus Christ Blue Monkey Theater Company presents the the day and place in which President Ronald Reagan Superstar, the first collaboration between Andrew Northwest premiere of Attar Boyz! —in which a was shot by a deranged lunatic, Dec. 5-14. (8pm Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the Christian boy band rocks its way through heavenly Friday and Saturday, 2 and 8 pm Sunday. 8371 N professional stage, Dec. 2 and 3 at Arlene Schnitzer hits—Dec. 5-Jan. 3, 2009, at Firehouse Theatre. Interstate Ave. $10 from www disjecta.org.) Concert Hall. (7:30 pm. 1037 SW Broadway $25- (Call for times. 1436 SW Montgomery St. $12418 from 503-593-2466.) Do Jump presents Do Jump: Home for the Holidays, featuring recent works and old favorites woven to Repertory Theatre The Lady with All Gretchen Rumbaugh as wise, funny, no-nonsense advice col umnist Ann Landers, through Dec. 7 at Brunisti Hall. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway. $22.50427.50 from box office or Ticketmaster.) $55 from Ticketmaster.) North End Players presents A Christmas Story, Oslund + Co./Dance pres presents gether into a delightful evening of holiday fun, Nov. 29- Jean Shepard's holiday classic about a boy and ents "Bète Perdue," which Celebrate Home—A Broadway Rose Christmas, Jan. 4,2009, at Echo Theatre. (Call for times. 1515 SE his Red Ryder BB gun, Dec. 5-14 at St. Andrews muses on the capacity for combining classic carols, holiday pop songs and 37th Ave. $20432 from 503-231-1232.) Episcopal Church. 18 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Broadway Rose Theatre Company disbelief and Lakewood Theatre Company stages You Can’t Take It with You through Dec. 14. enchantment in the common world, with two Home for the Holidazed For a unique and heartfelt take on the holiday expe Whitcomb, who Acito asked to help him adapt the rience, Artists Repertory Theatre presents the world pre novel. “I just thought it would work better onstage," miere of Holidazed, a play co-written by Portland humor he says. The piece covers the full spectrum of theatrical enter ist Marc Acito, directed by Jon Kretzu and featuring local tainment including puppets, gender-bending double cast faves like Susannah Mars and Michael Mendelson. “I wanted to deconstruct the holidays. I think it’s re ing, a drag show and some family-friendly innuendo. “I ally important to examine why it is that we do what we do,” Acito says. “It’s a family Christmas show with a more satiric edge. Families, especially in Portland, are looking for it. We already have a lot of saccharine and wholesome. 1 want life more as we know it.” Julia, a suburban mother of three, brings home Luna, a home less teenage girl. Julia’s kids are intrigued, but her husband and friends are skeptical. After a disas trous Thanksgiving dinner and un expected guests, they hurtle toward Christmas with the reality they used The “picture perfect" family gets a new addition when Mom takes in a to know turned upside down. homeless, pagan teenage girl in Holidazed. As a gay man, Acito always brings love when the theater does what it does best,” Acito says. a queer sensibility to the work he does, but he is also aware He adds: “As writers, [Cynthia and I are) both interested of the full spectrum of his audience. “I wanted to write in the idea of logical family versus biological family. What something that was compelling for gays and not off-putting I want people to understand is that love makes a family and to straights," he says. to understand what it is to open our hearts to another hu Holidazed started as a novel for Acito, who soon man being on the street and see their humanity.” found himself up against a wall with it. “Somewhere I —Kristin Steele got off track,” he says. Enter local screenwriter Cynthia new duets, "Thirst" and "Prrr," through Nov. 23 at Imago Theatre. Public Playhouse presents It's a Wonderful Life: (8 pm. 17 SE Eighth Ave. $14416 from Brown A Live Radio Play, bringing the holiday classic to Paper Tickets.) life with five actors taking on all the roles, Dec. 5-20 Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab presents Pulitzer Prize nominee Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), an existential one-man show with at CoHo Theater. (7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $17420 from 503-922-0532.) standup-style comic riffs and deadpan hipster Rick Huddle presents Spent, a monologue combin banter that keep interrupting a corrosively bleak ing the tales of Chinese princesses, evil IMF war narrative, through Nov. 23 at Kingstad Center in lords, John Keynes' theory of economics and Tonya Beaverton. (7:30 and 9:30 pm Friday and Saturday, Harding into one riveting story that's essential to to day s financial crisis, Dec. 4-20 at Theater Theatre. 2 pm Sunday. 15450SW Millikan Way. $9415 (8 pm Thursday-Saturday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $18 from 503-626-6338.) Portland Ballet presents La Boutique Fantasque: The Enchanted Toyshop Nov. 28 and 29 at New at the door, $15 in advance from 503-720-0397; Thursdays are “pay what you will.“) mark Theatre. (2:30 and 7:30 pm. 1111 SW Broad Super Project Lab presents Meet Your____ !—an way. $6440 from Ticketmaster.) improv show that collides truth with fiction when Portland Center Stage presents R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, special guests share true, unrehearsed stories from their lives—Nov. 22 at Winningstad Theatre. 18 pm. 1111 SW Broadway. $ 12 from 503-230-9061.) a one-man show that takes you inside the mind of one of the foremost scientists and philosophers of Super Project Lab presents 3Some, in which three the 20th century, through Dec. 7 in Gerding Theater performers improvise two full-length stones popu at the Armory. (Call for times. 128 NW 11th Ave. lated by dozens of characters, Dec. 5-13 at Curious Comedy Theater. (9:30 pm Friday and Saturday. $28 50468.50 from 503-445-3700.) 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $10 from Portland Center Stage revives Mead Hunter's hugely popular adaptation of A Christmas Carol 503-477-9477.) Dec. 5-28 in Gerding Theater at the Armory. (Call Tears of Joy Theatre presents Jungle Book, in 128 NW 11th Ave. $30466.50 from which a puppeteer gives amazing life to an array for times. of unforgettable characters who remind us that 503-445-3700.) our families consist of those who love and pro Portland Revels presents 2008 Christmas Revels: A Visit to the Scandinavian Northlands, a celebra tion of the winter solstice incorporating theater, dance and music, Dec. 5-14 at Scottish Rite The ater. (Call for times. 1515 SW Morrison St. $7435 tect us, through Nov. 30 at Winningstad Theatre. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway $14416 from 503-248-0557.) Theatre Vertigo presents Pterodactyls, an ab surdist black comedy about the demise of the Dun from 503-274-4654.) can family and, by extension, the species, through Portland State University presents The Tri umph of Love, a tale of mistaken identities in which an accidental princess Nov. 22 at Theater Theatre. 18 pm. 3430 SE Bel mont St. $15 from 503-306-0870.) masquerades as a young man to woo her prince charming, Triangle Productions presents Eula Mae's Beauty Bait through Nov. 29 at Artists Repertory Theatre. and Tackle, gay playwright Frank Blocker's hdanous (7:30 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. No sendup about a former rodeo rider whose niece is trying show Nov. 27. 1516 SW Alder St. $8410 from to win the crown of Miss Alabama, through Nov. 29 at 503-725-4612.) Firehouse theatre 18pm Thursday Saturday 1436 SW Montgomery St $18420 from 503-239-5919.) Profile Theatre Project continues its Neil Simon season with a staged reading of the Pulitzer- White Bird continues its Uncaged Dance Series a coming-of-age with a thrilling collaborative program of new chore winning play Lost in Yonkers, tale concerning two brothers growing up during ography by Skinner/Kirk + Bielemeier Dec. 3-7 at World War II, through Nov. 23 at Theater Theatre. the Portland Opera Studio Theater (8 pm Wednes (7:30 pm Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Saturday and Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $10415 from 211 SE Carruthers St. $16426 from box office or 503-242-0080.) Ticketmaster:) day-Friday, 2 and 8 pm Saturday and Sunday love freely hip, /eny & hours 831* broadway seaside ♦ Oregon ♦ 97138 503.738 3100 ‘ j www.yummywinebarbistro.com Sunday: monday tuesday sa -10 @ Vault Martini Lounge / No Cover, Drink proceeds to Portland's Q-Center / 226 nw i zm Pomona Or 97209
