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Neil Simon: Profile's 2008-2009 Featured Playwright

Posted 05/01/08

From the Artistic Director of Profile Theatre, Jane Unger:

"It gives me great pleasure to announce that next year Profile's season- long relationship will be with none other than the great American playwright Neil Simon. Author of over 30 plays, Neil Simon is considered by many to be the world's most successful playwright. He has received more Academy and Tony award nominations than any other writer and is the only playwright to have had four Broadway productions running simultaneously (1966: Sweet Charity, Star Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple, Barefoot the Park) and has had more plays adapted to film than any other American playwright, in addition to writing a number of original screenplays, himself."

The Oregonian Raves: Landscape of the Body

Posted 03/11/08

"Early in John Guare's Landscape of the Body a man in Groucho Marx glasses tries to impress a woman on the deck of a Nantucket ferry by using a postcard of the passing Kennedy compound to point out which house is whose. He finds, however, that the postcard has the buildings wrong. It doesn't, as he says, "match up to reality."

- Michael McGregor, The Oregonian 

Hands on Theatre at Metropolitan Learning Center

Posted 02/27/08

For the past seven years, Profile Theatre has offered the HandsOn Theatre Program to area high schools to help students in all aspects ofstaging a play. This program is offered at no charge to participating schoolsand, in 2007-08, is funded by contributions from the Hoover Family Foundation,The Roy and Diane Marvin Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, James F. and Marion L. Miller Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, the Herbert A.Templeton Foundation and The Standard.

The Oregonian Praises A Few Stout Individuals

Posted 02/19/08

"The Profile production has much to praise, including a cast that is strong from top to bottom and a set and costumes that aid unobtrusively in the separation and blending of the imaginary and the real."