Saturday, March 29, 2025
‘Julius Caesar’ & ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’: Ashland reinvents the classics Darleen OrtegaWith a women and nonbinary cast for "Caesar" and an "Earnest" transported to the…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Oregon Shakespeare Festival strikes gold with a pair of plays about Black life Darleen OrtegaJames Ijames' "Fat Ham" and August Wilson's "Jitney" kick off the Ashland festival's 90th season …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Center Stage’s searing ‘Virginia Woolf’: Why now? Darleen OrtegaEdward Albee's 1960s masterwork of two toxic marriages gets a bold and skillful new performance. Sixty years later, does…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:59PMThursday, March 6, 2025
Review: Third Rail’s potent ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ Darleen OrtegaActors Isaac Lamb and Charles Grant shine in Samuel D. Butler's empathetic drama about two men struggling to…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:35PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
‘Notes from the Field’: A play for today Darleen OrtegaPortland Playhouse's sterling production of Anna Deavere Smith's play about the school-to-prison pipeline meets the nation's politi…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:07PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Review: Lauren Yee’s ‘Samsara’ at Profile is not to be missed Darleen OrtegaPlayful and richly unsettling, Yee's drama about surrogacy and impending parenthood and a kind of colonialis…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:30PMTuesday, December 3, 2024
‘Twelfth Night’: High comedy & big ideas Darleen OrtegaReview: Shakespeare's mind-bending comedy at Portland Center Stage ripples with laughter as the play explores fascinating facet…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 10:59AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
‘The Event!’ – Artists Rep unveils a mystery Darleen OrtegaReview: In its first full production in its home space since 2019, the company creates a cluster of intriguing small-town Ore…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:58AMMonday, October 14, 2024
Review: A razor-sharp ‘Sweeney Todd’ Darleen OrtegaPortland Center Stage mounts a compellingly sung version of Stephen Sondheim's penny-dreadful tale of meat pies, murder, and revenge on…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:41PMMonday, September 23, 2024
Review: The new Native Theater Project gets a strong start with ‘Diné Nishłį’ Darleen OrtegaThe premiere of Blossom Johnson's "Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding Scho…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:53PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
‘Reggie Hoops’: It’s much more than basketball Darleen OrtegaProfile Theatre's world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz' play wrestles fascinatingly with questions of family, professional str…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:35AMThursday, July 4, 2024
Ashland on the big stage: light yet bright Darleen OrtegaThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor-theater "Jane Eyre" and "Much Ado About Nothing" don't plumb all the depths, but both succe…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:20AMThursday, June 27, 2024
Ashland’s ‘Lizard Boy,’ ‘Virgins to Villains’ Darleen OrtegaReview: Robin Goodrin Nordli's trek through a lifetime of playing Shakespeare's women and Justin Huertas' superhero musi…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:49PMFriday, June 14, 2024
‘Clyde’s’: Imperfect people striving for a perfect sandwich Darleen OrtegaReview: In Portland Center Stage's heart-filled production of Lynn Nottage's truck-stop diner comedy/drama, ex…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:03PMThursday, June 13, 2024
Seeing America in a hazy orange tone Darleen OrtegaReview: Profile Theatre's premiere of christopher oscar peña's "our orange sky" tells an immigrant story steeped in ambition, family disco…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:44AM 
