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Tears of Joy TheatreNovember 28, 2009

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The 3rd FloorNovember 27 - December 26, 2009

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Do Jump!November 28 - January 3, 2010

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Portland Civic Theatre GuildDecember 1, 2009

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Third Rail RepertoryNovember 29, 2009Free!

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Fuse Theatre EnsembleNovember 29, 2009

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Dance Naked ProductionsNovember 27 - December 5, 2009

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Portland Improv Group (P.I.G.)November 21 - December 12, 2009

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Portland Center StageNovember 24 - December 27, 2009

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Tears of Joy TheatreNovember 13 - 29, 2009Summary:Tears of Joy’s puppetry theatre bring to life the Miller and his daughter Lola, the King, baby Lulu, and a mysterious little man. He’s quick. He’s sly. Can you guess his name? It’s Rumpelstiltskin! The songs and magic of this timeless story will delight and enthrall audiences of all ages.

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Third Rail Repertory **Photo credit: Owen Carey**November 20 - December 13, 2009Summary:Christmas Eve in London, and two hapless policemen must deliver tragic news to an elderly couple. When they try to hide the truth, the consequences are immediate, dire, and side-splitting. With flirty septuagenarians, fearsome vigilantes, misplaced chihuahuas, stodgy vicars and, of course, naughty underwear

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Portland PlayhouseNovember 20 - December 13, 2009Summary:Three interlopers from the Lower East Side: hard-ass Dee, coke-hyped Stash, and enigmatic stage manager Wilson, outline their plan to rob big-time bingo night to fund their latest production, a scatological spin on Three Sisters. Populated with characters from the nightmare you wish you'd always had. Directed by Tim True.

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Lakewood TheatreNovember 6 - December 13, 2009Summary:Sheridan Whiteside, a New York critic, lecturer, wit, and radio orator, slips on the icy doorstep of the prominent Stanley family during a publicity stop. For the next six weeks the convalescing curmudgeon interferes with everyone and everything while confined to the Stanley's living room. Includes penguins and convicts.

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Broadway Rose Theatre Co. **Photo credit: Craig Mitchelldyer**November 19 - December 20, 2009Summary:Gal-pal singing group The Marvelous Wonderettes have been invited to perform at the 1968 holiday party for Harper’s Hardware Store. Beauty queen Cindy Lou, wise-crackin’ gum
 chewin’ Suzy, shy gal Missy, and scrappy Betty Jean create a rockin’ lively mix of ‘50s and ‘60s holiday hits and

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Artists Repertory TheatreNovember 17 - December 20, 2009Summary:A.R.T. remounts Holidazed after receiving numerous requests from audience members to bring back the popular holiday comedy. The unique holiday comedy is the hilarious and heartwarming story of the do-it-all super mom and wife who throws her Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas season on its ear when she takes in a feisty homeless

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Super Project LabNovember 20 & 21, 2009Summary:Meet Your Madmen + Meet Your Critic. There are a lot of amazing people in fair Portland who are doing great things. SPL believes audiences deserve to get to know these folks a little better. Meet Your ______! reveals spontaneous, personal stories and inspires a night of unforgettable improv.

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Oregon Children's Theatre **Photo credit: Owen Carey**October 31 - November 22, 2009Review by peanutduckNon-drama: Thin, ho-hum script and indefinite directorial tone create series of anti-climaxes; Doren Elias (Willy Wonka), an uncertain navigator of Wonka’s moral ambiguity. Young Golden Ticket holders excel with creepy characterizations, and picture-book costumes and sharp make-up heighten

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The Brooklyn BayNovember 6 - 22, 2009Summary:A one woman celebration of exhaustion, uncertainty and the art of giving up hope. A timely and uplifting collection of stories, music and musings inspired by the writings of Pema Chodron, an American Buddhist nun on the nature of hope, fear and finding joy. Conceived, directed, performed by Melanya Helene.Summer 2009 review.

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BroadArts Theatre **Photo credit: Owen Carey**October 23 - November 22, 2009Summary:The musical features an ensemble cast of women of substance and sings and satirizes its way through the all-you-can-eat buffet of diets, drugs, corporate greed, media brainwashing and discouragement that surround many people of size. "We’re fat! So what? It’s time to sing the praises of our whole luscious selves!”

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Triangle Productions!October 22 - November 22, 2009Summary:Exploding with fun, Hats! is a new musical about a 49.999 year-old woman who reluctantly faces the inevitable BIG 5-0...until she meets several remarkable women who show her about fun, friendship and forgetting about things that simply don't matter anymore. Inspired by the Red Hat Society.

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Third Eye TheatreOctober 16 - November 21, 2009Summary:This play focuses on an Army Captain who is generally content to follow orders and do as he is told. The troop he is in charge of is being sent on missions to bomb Constantinople (not Istanbul) & Minnesota. Why? Just because their orders say so!

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Northwest Classical Theatre Co.October 23 - November 22, 2009Summary:Part of a larger narrative of the rise of the House of York, both parts of Henry IV focus on the disintegration of King Henry of Bolingbroke's kingdom, family, and body while he strives to atone for his usurpation of the throne of his cousin Richard II.

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CoHo Productions **Photo credit: Win Goodbody**October 14 - November 21, 2009Summary:Playwright Sam Shepard pulls us into the middle of the brutal, knock-down, drag out, lover’s quarrel. Methodically revealing each tier of dark secrets behind their past, Shepard tells this story told with reckless abandon and infinite care, leaving us with haunting images and truths. Starring Val Landrum and

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Portland Center Stage **Photo credit: Owen Carey**September 29 - November 22, 2009Summary:Gazing into the bathroom mirror one morning while shaving, Josh Kornbluth realizes that he looks remarkably like the guy on the $100 bill. Like any good Jewish son, he immediately calls his mother. From there he becomes obsessed with what it means to be a founding father.

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Atomic ArtsOctober 30 - November 21, 2009Review by peanutduckScreen-to-stage Cliffs Notes adaptation hits plot points but little else; channels a B-movie recitative acting style without delight of B-movie cheesy special effects; truck-sized pauses; actors – project. Fast Computers’ organ accompaniment great, though could be more effective if accented moments rather than continually underscored.

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