John C. Bunnell
Thanks to the astonishingly kind and forgiving folk on OryCon 39‘s programming staff (you’re better off not knowing the details), I will once again be a busy and active panelist this coming weekend. For the four and a half people...
Understand, I like TriMet. The greater Portland area’s transit system is one of the best in the US. Although it’s not perfect (the sooner we get more late-night service on my current primary route, the happier a lifestyle non-driver I...
When the high-powered rock musical numbers are the strongest elements of your show, you don’t usually have a problem…unless the show isn’t actually a musical.
The advance descriptions of Off the Rails stress three points: the author is Native American, the script loosely adapts Shakespeare’s often-criticized “problem” play, Measure for Measure, and the story’s major concern involves boarding schools that Native American children were forced to attend...
It’s not that there’s anything particularly wrong with this iteration of Beauty and the Beast…it’s simply that there isn’t enough right.
Even with a (first-rate) understudy playing Falstaff, this Henry IV Part I may be the single most purely watchable history play I’ve seen in Ashland. And that takes in a lot of territory.
The annual pilgrimage to Ashland began this year with an epic production (3 hours 20 minutes, just as promised in the playbill) of The Odyssey, adapted from the Robert Fitzgerald translation by director Mary Zimmerman. I can’t comment just now on...
Herewith a quick take on my two most recent summer-movie visits: Wonder Woman is very, very good — and manages to be so by mostly being a World War I movie rather than a superhero movie. I am, of course,...
You’d think that two free restaurant dinners in one day would be grounds for celebration. In practice, it didn’t actually work out that way…. It so happens that, after the closing went through on the condominium that’s now Lone Penman...