“I have been an actress since I was 10 years old but always felt frustrated with saying other people’s words,’” says Sharon “Shay” Knorr, who in 2008, after years of successful stage and TV roles, eventually wrote her own one-woman show and performed in the Portland Story Theater. It was then that she learned she […]
Greenwood Playhouse
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Our Picks for 2/6-2/12
friday 7 Mt. Bachelor Apres Ski Bash FIRST FRIDAY—The Mt. Bachelor Apres Ski Bash series continues with two on-the-verge-of-the-big-time Portland bands: The ghostly harmonizations and ethereal, yet rocking beats of the trio Cabin Project, and the peppy goth pop of The Genders. (For a full review of The Genders, see page 18). 6 – 9 […]
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Wicked Game
Angel Street (Gaslight) is onstage film noir
From Charlotte Brontë’s monster in the attic in Jane Eyre, to the nail-biting debacle that is Natalie Portman in Black Swan, madwomen are well documented—perfect, paranoid representation of loss of control, and an indictment of feminine weakness. Enter Bella Manningham, the nervous, misty-eyed creation of Patrick Hamilton in his 1938 play, Angel Street, another madwoman […]