Stage Names: At Portland Stage, “Later Life” urges us to live, and wonder.

October 7, 2016Home, Living, Opinion, Portland, Stage Names Theatre ReviewsA.R. Gurney, acting, Anita Stewart, Boston, comedy, drama, Julian Barnes, Later Life, love, Lullaby, Maine, memory, missed opportunities, Portland Stage, second chances, set design, The Sense of an Ending, W.H. Auden, WASP culture

By Telly Halkias

It may have taken legendary American playwright A.R. Gurney (a.k.a. “Pete”) into his fifties to overcome critical and audience bias against his so-called “WASP culture” characters and storylines, but it won’t take any audience member of “Later Life”—one of Gurney’s masterpieces now playing at Portland Stage Company— more than a few minutes to appreciate the inherent […]

Stage Names: Want to understand the Cold War? Portland Stage’s “Havana” can help

January 31, 2015Home, Living, Opinion, Portland, Stage Names Theatre Reviewsacting, Batista, Castro, Cold War, comedy, Cuba, dictatorship, entertainment, From The Stacks, Graham Greene, Monsigneur Quixote, novel, Our Man in Havana, Portland, Portland Stage, satire, slapstick, Stage Names, Telly Halkias, theatre

By Telly Halkias

PORTLAND – The title of this review is as ludicrous as some of the situations in which Graham Greene put his characters in the 1958 “entertainment,” “Our Man in Havana,” one of his frivolous works surrounded by serious novels that secured his legacy as a legend of 20th century letters. But with President Obama having just announced a move to normalize relations […]

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Stage Names: At Portland Stage, “Later Life” urges us to live, and wonder.

Stage Names: Want to understand the Cold War? Portland Stage’s “Havana” can help

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