THRU Magazine Archive
Pieter Breugel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565), on which the performance, Sisters in the Snow, is based. All text written by Kathleen Dolan. Listen to the artists talk about their work at Fertile Ground 2017. The Fertile Ground Festival is back for its 7th year, presenting new works that run the theatre gamut: circus arts, staged […]
Stupid Fucking Bird implants itself behind laughs in new existential play. Only when I was home from the theatre and laying may head onto the pillow, lights off, quiet, and all alone, did I realize how powerful this play was. Playwright Aaron Posner has a reputation for careful, methodical adaptation of classic theatre works, but […]
Laura Easton’s play about writing and sex in the eBook age comes to Portland Center Stage Perhaps it’s fitting—given the audience’s expectations—that the setting of Laura Easton’s play about two writers trapped in a cozy Michigan cottage has a kind of Cinemax-after-dark feel to it. Olivia (Danielle Slavick), a not-quite-40 unsuccessful novelist sits, curled in […]
Our Town sets the bar for the fall season at Portland Center Stage. With Our Town, directed by Rose Riordan, opening another theatre season at The Armory, Portland Center Stage demonstrates they are willing to take risks. This play by Thornton Niven Wilder breaks the laws of narrative and almost every firm rule, even in […]