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“Some people like having someone around. I’m just not one of those people.” So says Abby early on in Ripcord, and it seems like she means it. Abby, portrayed by the brilliant Randi Douglas, lives in a retirement home. She’s crotchety and deceitful and, frankly, just wants her room to herself. She doesn’t really care […]

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Clackamas Rep’s compact production proves Annie fits anywhere

Annie is stronger than Cameron Diaz. The horrendous 2014 big-screen re-interpretation of the Broadway musical — of which Diaz’s shrill Miss Hannigan was a monstrous lowlight — could have soured the sweet story of “Little Orphan Annie” for an entire generation. Landing at movieplexes long after the better 1982 film adaptation, the rebooted Annie, thankfully,

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The hound of the comic thrills

Clackamas Rep romps through Ken Ludwig’s spoof of the Sherlock Homes mystery “Hound of the Baskervilles.” The man in the deerstalker hat and his biographer sidekick Dr. Watson live for the thrill of the hunt in Ken Ludwig’s screwball spoof of the most popular of Sherlock Holmes’ tales, Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. The whodunit

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Music Man: strike up the band

Clackamas Repertory Theatre strikes up one of America’s most popular bands with greater Portland’s latest revival of Meredith Willson’s beloved musical The Music Man. For more than half a century the songs and characters that make up this delicate slice of midwestern pie have delighted us with a good celebration and a light poke of fun at Americana. For every

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One Man, Two Guvnors: wonderfully wild, old-style comedy

If you’ve a hankering for some old-style broad comedy, Clackamas Repertory Theatre’s current production of Richard Bean’s “One Man, Two Guvnors” might be just the thing. A 2011 London National Theatre triumph and highly acclaimed success when it arrived on Broadway the next year, Bean’s play is loosely based on Carlo Goldoni’s 18th-century style commedia

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Good People at Clackamas Rep examines poverty, victimhood in Southie

In “Good People” by David Lindsay-Abaire (“Fuddy Meers,” “Rabbit Hole”) currently at Clackamas Repertory Theatre, a few burning questions thread through this absorbing comedy-drama: Are we responsible for our own poverty and victimhood? Do we just need to work harder? Or does upbringing, class and good luck make a difference in how we turn out?

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Clackamas Repertory Theater’s Carousel offers a strong chorus, a dreamy set and more

Carousel, currently in fine form at Clackamas Repertory Theater, has a lot in common with Thornton Wilder‘s 1938 play Our Town. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic premiered in 1945, just two years after Oklahoma! dazzled Broadway, shares with Wilder’s work a dark quality, the setting of a small New England town in the late 19th

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