Expect the unexpected

“I think Steve Martin is a true genius!” said Penta Swanson, a Portland State theater major, describing Martin’s one-act play, WASP, in which she plays a supernatural being (whose identity shall not be disclosed at this time).

Writing to cope

As Cheryl Strayed stood on the Smith Memorial Student Union ballroom stage last Monday night, she recounted a story about how a copy of her best-selling memoir, Wild, was recovered by a hotel staff member who had never read a book in English; the woman had introduced herself to Strayed on her book tour.

It’s Truffladina, not Truffladino!

How many Portlanders can claim to be the son or daughter of a professional storyteller? Katelyn Lewis, for one. Lewis will also be playing the lead role in one of Carlo Goldoni’s earliest and most well-known comedies, The Servant of Two Masters, which opens this Thursday with a low-cost preview on campus.