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Theatre Diaspora, Oregon's only professional Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company, will present a free staged reading of Inside Out and Back Again by Min Kahng at Portland Center Stage, May 15 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a panel discussion produced by MediaRites. ....
Taylore Mahogany Scott s performance in Seven Guitars brings to life Vera Dotson, a woman whose story arose in August Wilson s creative consciousness and caused him to write a completely different play. Seven Guitars originally had an all-male cast. It s a tribute to Wilson s poetry, Scott says, that he so richly endowed Vera with the lived life of a Black woman bearing the burdens of love and loss. ....
Taylore Mahogany Scott s performance in Seven Guitars brings to life Vera Dotson, a woman whose story arose in August Wilson s creative consciousness and caused him to write a completely different play. Seven Guitars originally had an all-male cast. It s a tribute to Wilson s poetry, Scott says, that he so richly endowed Vera with the lived life of a Black woman bearing the burdens of love and loss. ....
Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Two New Podcasts Shake Up Local Theater by Looking Beyond Our Planet and Inside the Vast Expanse of the Human Mind They may seem light years apart “True Love” is memoir and “Protocol” is science fiction but each offers revelatory reflections on life in isolation that resonate beyond COVID. BEAM ME UP: Members of the Protocol creative team during a post-show Q&A at the launch party, where sci-fi-inspired costumes were optional. (Protocol) Updated March 16 at 10:17 PM ....
Print On Sunday, San Diego Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of “Hershey Felder: Puccini,” the Canadian-born playwright/pianist/actor’s latest composer-based play with music, streaming live from his home in Florence, Italy. The production will feature an international cast of leading opera singers that include American baritone Nathan Gunn, American tenor Charles Castronovo, Russian soprano Ekaterina Siurina and Canadian soprano Gianna Corbisiero. Felder wrote the script and will co-star in the production as its title subject, Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini. The production will feature on-location film shoots in Lucca, the Tuscan city where Puccini was born and raised, and Felder playing the piano on which Puccini composed “Turandot.” The production will feature sung scenes from “La bohème,” “Tosca,” “Madama Butterfly” and “Turandot.” ....