Stage Names: Portland Stage unleashes raucous “Hound of the Baskervilles”

February 7, 2016Home, Living, Opinion, Portland, Stage Names Theatre Reviews"Elementary", "Sherlock", Anita Stewart, Aristophanes, comedy, Jeremy Cumberbatch, John Nicholson, Jonny Lee Miller, moor, mystery, Plautus, Portland Stage, satire, Sherlock Holmes, spoof, Steven Canny, The Hound of the Baskervilles

By Telly Halkias

You knew right away — from the opening lines, in fact — that this version of Sherlock Holmes was going to produce a delightfully delicious evening. When the usual Portland Stage Company official did not come out to welcome the crowd and thank sponsors — leaving the task instead to the play’s three actors (who were already on stage) — […]

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: Portland Stage unleashes raucous “Hound of the Baskervilles”

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

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