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The Portland Tribune: Black and blue Leaves well done at Profile (05/30/08)

With Don Alder directing, Profile and its artistic director, Jane Unger, hit perfect notes here, in part by having saved this dark, intriguing work — in some ways, Guare’s truest — for the end of its season-long tribute to the playwright.

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Oregonian theater review: The absurd "House of Blue Leaves" (05/21/08)

"Sarah Lucht and Ted Roisum star in John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves" at Profile Theatre. If we didn't want so much from life, we wouldn't be so disappointed when we didn't get it. At least that's what John Guare seems to imply in "The House of Blue Leaves" -- a 1971 farce-tragedy, which was the playwright's first major theatrical success and is now being given a crisp revival by Portland's Profile Theatre."

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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 of staging a play. This program is offered at no charge to participating schools and, 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 Hands On Theatre Program sends highly-qualified theatre professionals into high schools. Students participate in a multi-disciplinary program as they engage themselves in all aspects of staging a play-acting, costume and stage design, sound and light design, as well as researching historical and thematic subjects addressed in the play. The program culminates in a production written by Profile Theatre's featured playwright, with students performing for families, students and friends at the school site.

During the 2007-2008 school year, Profile has placed artist-in-residence Liz Hayden to implement the program at Roosevelt High School and Metropolitan Learning Center (MLC), with a third school site yet to be announced. Performance dates for the May 2008 productions at Roosevelt High School have yet to be set.

At MLC, there are 26 students involved in the many aspects of this production (set design and construction, lighting, and acting).Students will be performing the following plays written by John Guare, Profile Theatre's featured playwright for 2007-2008: Muzeeka, Rich & Famous, A Talking Dog, and The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year.