{"id":4621,"date":"2015-07-16T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?page_id=4621"},"modified":"2018-02-28T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:45:26","slug":"201415-season-press-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/archivescohoseason19\/201415-season-press-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"2014\/15 Season Press Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3957\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Logo-and-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Logo and banner\" width=\"549\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Logo-and-banner.jpg 549w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Logo-and-banner-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA theatre company with strong neighborhood roots&#8230;CoHo, the little theater in Northwest Portland, has announced its 2015-16 season. That will make 20&#8230;CoHo\u2019s new season is full of locally grown, nourished, acted and directed plays: <i>Remme\u2019s Run, The Yellow Wallpaper<\/i>, and <i>The Few.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orartswatch.org\/news-notes-season-announcements-from-coho-and-portland-playhouse\/\"> -Oregon Arts Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4271\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Grounded-blue-simple-for-web-e1423599801142-580x340.jpg\" alt=\"Grounded blue simple for web\" width=\"580\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Grounded-blue-simple-for-web-e1423599801142-580x340.jpg 580w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Grounded-blue-simple-for-web-e1423599801142-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Grounded-blue-simple-for-web-e1423599801142.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOut of the starkest set imaginable &#8212; a metal chair, lit by four fluorescent bulbs, inhabited by a solitary woman in an anonymous military uniform &#8212; arises a richly constructed person with personal and moral ambiguities that transfix an audience&#8230;Fighter pilot Rebecca Lingafelter delivers a rich, complex woman with a huge armament of tensions, paradoxes, and fracture-points; but she never takes the easy way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/performance\/index.ssf\/2015\/05\/grounded_at_coho_review.html\">-Oregonian, <i>Grounded<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf you know anyone who needs to be convinced that theatre is important, send them to see <i>Grounded <\/i>\u00a0at CoHo Productions. This may be the most important play to grace Portland stages this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/portland\/article\/BWW-Reviews-CoHo-Productions-GROUNDED-Is-a-Forceful-Reminder-of-Why-Theatre-Is-Important-20150508\">-Broadway World, <i>Grounded<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLingafelter absorbs us into her world so completely you believe you can see exactly which she is describing. \u00a0The emotional roller-coaster we enter with her is a journey of discovery\u2026filled with peaks and valleys\u2026never knowing what is around the next corner\u2026or how we will deal with it. \u00a0She is totally in control and you believe her every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dennissparksreviews.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/groundedcoho-productionsnw-portland.html\">-Dennis Sparks Reviews, <i>Grounded<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4623\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Snowstorm_banner-image-580x214.jpg\" alt=\"The Snowstorm_banner image\" width=\"580\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Snowstorm_banner-image-580x214.jpg 580w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Snowstorm_banner-image-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Snowstorm_banner-image.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201caudience members who hunger for emotionally stirring, imaginative theater experiences will be joyously fulfilled by this magical and moving theatrical production&#8230;which may not be conventional but is evocative, complex, and intricately shaped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/performance\/index.ssf\/2015\/01\/the_snowstorm_a_magical_perfor.html\">-Oregonian, <i>The Snowstorm<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cboth beautiful and relentless, <i>The Snowstorm<\/i>\u2014part of this year\u2019s Fertile Ground festival\u2014might leave you out of breath. But with such an impassioned blend of live music, dance and theater, that\u2019s hardly a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/portland\/article-23851-the_snowstorm.html\">-Willamette Week, <i>The Snowstorm<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201ca phenomenal piece of theatre told primarily through music and movement&#8230;The piece is filled with warmth and humor, and you will find yourself deeply touched by it&#8230;As always, the technical credits at CoHo are outstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/portland\/article\/BWW-Reviews-Prepare-to-Be-Dazzled-by-THE-SNOWSTORM-at-CoHo-Productions-20150117#\">-Broadway World, <i>The Snowstorm<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3965\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/night-mother-banner-slider-580x214.jpg\" alt=\"night-mother-banner slider\" width=\"580\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/night-mother-banner-slider-580x214.jpg 580w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/night-mother-banner-slider-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/night-mother-banner-slider.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cartfully crafted and emotionally stirring&#8230;finely drawn and deeply felt performances&#8230;hard not to be moved by this CoHo production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/performance\/index.ssf\/2014\/10\/cohos_night_mother_is_a_stirri.html\">-Oregonian, <i>\u2018night, Mother<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u201c<\/i>It all works beautifully, and at the end of the play the audience was completely still. No sound, no movement, no applause. Just pure, stunned silence until the two actresses returned to take their well-deserved bows\u2026. CoHo is one of the best theaters in town.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/portland\/article\/BWW-Reviews-Powerful-Acting-Makes-CoHos-NIGHT-MOTHER-a-Must-See-20141019\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/portland\/article\/BWW-Reviews-Powerful-Acting-Makes-CoHos-NIGHT-MOTHER-a-Must-See-20141019\">-Broadway World, <i>\u2018night, Mother<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDo not enter CoHo theater\u00a0for <i>\u2018night, Mother <\/i>expecting to be anything but emotionally wrecked\u2026 Expect your allegiances and empathy to rock from side to side, and for the conflict to leave you feeling deeply unsettled. Gavin Hoffman, in an excellent directorial debut, focuses more on emotion than on what\u2019s right or wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/portland\/blog-32347-just_opened_night_mother.html\">-Willamette Week, <i>&#8216;night, Mother<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4553\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Summerfest-FB-Banner-580x215.jpg\" alt=\"Summerfest FB Banner\" width=\"580\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Summerfest-FB-Banner-580x215.jpg 580w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Summerfest-FB-Banner-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Summerfest-FB-Banner.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCoHo\u2019s summer shows have an informal spirit that nurtures the wilder edges of performance practice these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orartswatch.org\/a-little-noir-at-cohos-summerfest-2015\/\">Oregon Arts Watch, Summerfest 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCoHo&#8217;s Summerfest series of fringe-tinged and downright dirty shows&#8230;are for bawdy-minded adults who enjoy racy rhymes and salty similes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/performance\/index.ssf\/2015\/06\/coho_arthur_greenleaf_holmes.html\">-Oregonian, Summerfest 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring the summer, theater across the nation slows to a meager drizzle, and the occasional Shakespeare galas in the parks are no tall glass of water. For Portland\u2019s scrawny, indoor-bound artistes who thirst for something more contemporary than the Bard, the sunless black box at CoHo Productions is an oasis&#8230;Summerfest, says CoHo artistic director Philip Cuomo, is a chance to exist \u201con the edge of the mainstream&#8230; Indeed, CoHo knows no drought.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/portland\/article-25052-summerfest_(coho_productions)_theater_review.html\">Willamette Week, Summerfest 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-4621\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" 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