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“The actors are crystal-clear but never transparent, as they sparkle with intent. Director JoAnn Johnson honors Nachtrieb’s language, both poetic and vernacular, and helps pull together a winning, glowing performance that reverberates well after the play is over.” – The Oregonian
The Ruby Sunrise
“[The Ruby] Sunrise has irresistible moments of luminosity and wonderful humor, helped along by an excellent cast.” – The Oregonian
Freakshow
“…the always imaginative and playfully eccentric Theatre Vertigo.” – The Oregonian
Romance
“Lyons’ tremendous performance is bolstered by a predictably excellent cast, who, under the brisk direction of Collin Warren, breeze through Mamet’s script in just under two hours.” – The Portland Mercury
The Long Christmas Ride Home
“Fine performances from a solid Theatre
Vertigo cast and a skilled assist from the puppet people at Tears of Joy Theatre make this harrowing but moving stuff.” – The Portland Tribune
A Dolls House
“It’s a tight show, beautifully timed, with no wasted moments… The opening-night audience members were leaning
forward, breathing together at various points, waiting to see what would happen next…” – The Oregonian
Valparaiso
“This production gets it all right: The acting is top-notch, direction is tight, costume design is stylish and thoughtful,
and the lighting and sound are evocative and effective.” – The Portland Mercury
Escape from Happiness
“As always, Theatre Vertigo’s strengths are their immediacy, close contact with audience, and willingness to try
anything on stage.” – Followspot
Like I Say – a collaboration with defunkt theatre [lowercase intended]
“Oh, that more theatre would be such a tangle of imagination as this! Adored drifter script; everything puppet; unsurprisingly charming Vertifunkians who gave themselves over to such idiosyncratic sincerity…” – Followspot
Love of the Nightingale
“An extraordinary epic strikingly staged. A classic tragedy with a contemporary voice, this retelling of the Greek myth
of Philomele is the embodiment of true ensemble work representing companywide collaboration seamlessly effecting a
unified vision, one that takes advantage of theater’s enduring power to tell compelling stories here and now.” – Followspot
The Flu Season
“The Flu Season is no mere sendup of mental health care. It’s a sickness, not a satire. And Theatre Vertigo’s strain of the virus is characterized by hot flashes of insight, chilling honesty and loads of lightheaded hilarity.” – Willamette Week
A Lie of the Mind
“Sam Shepard’s funny, chaotic and brutal play about a couple of seriously demented families is 20 years old, but it seems fresh out of the barrel… Vertigo’s performers deliver some lovely gothic caricatures… and in that astonishing Shepard manner, they can twist without warning into something deep and tender.” – The Oregonian
A Devil Inside
“These improbable, outlandish characters are so fully realized by Theatre Vertigo’s talented cast that it hurts a little to see them get hurt. The high-energy ensemble rises to the challenge of the text… there are also plenty of pee-your-pants funny moments.” – The Portland Mercury
A Bright Room Called Day
“Theatre Vertigo has slowly but surely turned into the finest acting ensemble in Portland.” – The Portland Mercury