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“Frozen”: The Ideal First Broadway Show for Young Theatergoers

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Jade Chan is a native Portlander who remembers when Lloyd Center was an open mall, the Pearl consisted of warehouses, card catalog drawers ringed the second-floor lobby of the Central Library, and traffic jams were rare. A freelance editor and a mom of two, she enjoys sharing her love for the arts and her (ever-changing) hometown with her family.
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Last week, when the country—and the state—were heading into a time of uncertainty amid rising concerns around COVID-19 (aka the novel coronavirus), my daughter and I spent two hours in Arendelle and lost ourselves in the story of two sisters facing the biggest challenge in their lives. It was escapism at its best, and it […]

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REVIEW: "Matilda the Musical" — This Mommy Thinks It’s a Miracle

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Jade Chan is a native Portlander who remembers when Lloyd Center was an open mall, the Pearl consisted of warehouses, card catalog drawers ringed the second-floor lobby of the Central Library, and traffic jams were rare. A freelance editor and a mom of two, she enjoys sharing her love for the arts and her (ever-changing) hometown with her family.
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Stop reading right now and get your tickets to Matilda the Musical (if you don’t have them already). All set? Good. Now you and the kids in your life can eagerly anticipate experiencing one of the best productions I’ve seen at Northwest Children’s Theater. Staging a Tony-award-winning musical is not for the faint of heart,

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REVIEW: "Me…Jane" Opened at Oregon Children's Theater

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Erica Vo is a local mom who loves exploring Portland and beyond with her son and daughter. She hopes to help families make their own memories by sharing ideas and experiences on Facebook and her blog Adventures with Chicken and Nugget.
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Me…Jane Encourages Girls to Follow Their Dreams, Trust Themselves and Be Courageous Oregon Children’s Theatre kicked off their new season with Me, Jane, featuring lots of humor, great music and empowering messages for young girls. We caught an opening weekend showing of the musical, which imagines the story of Jane Goodall as a child. In

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REVIEW: All American Magic Show

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Magic + Ventriloquists + Balloons = Fun for the Whole Family We had never taken the kids to a magic show before we wandered into Mall 205 to attend the All American Magic Show. They’ve watched some magic tricks online and had a friend at school who would often do magic, but they had never seen

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REVIEW: This Play Might Turn Your Whole Family Pirate

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NWCT’s How I Became a Pirate Plunders the Hearts of Landlubbers Everywhere. How I Became a Pirate is a delightful, hour long musical adventure. The audience is invited into the imagination of Jeremy Jacob and carried out to sea with a ragtag bunch of pirates led by Captain Braid Beard. The songs were great and

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2019 RCCC — Winning Hearts With All That Good Content

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Rose City Comic Con (RCCC) has become a family tradition, which is why half of the family being wiped out with the new-school-year-plague was a bummer. My kid,  Alvah seems immune to the sickness this year and skated through untouched and was extremely ready to walk the hallowed halls of RCCC. We found parking after

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Review: "Cinderella" at Broadway Rose

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We are not big princess people at our house, although we do have a soft spot for Belle and Jasmine. But when we had the opportunity to go see Cinderella at Broadway Rose Theatre, we knew it would be good. Each summer, Broadway Rose does a youth drama camp in which kids act as the

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Review: "Wicked" — Which One is the Good Witch?

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Kid Tested, Parent Enthusiastically Approved Heywood (9 years old) and I were very excited when we plopped down in our seats for Wicked. I didn’t really tell him much about it, he knew it had to do with The Wizard of Oz, but was about the wicked witch and that it was a play. That

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Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly: A Fun and Fact-Filled Glimpse into the Bug World

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Jade Chan is a native Portlander who remembers when Lloyd Center was an open mall, the Pearl consisted of warehouses, card catalog drawers ringed the second-floor lobby of the Central Library, and traffic jams were rare. A freelance editor and a mom of two, she enjoys sharing her love for the arts and her (ever-changing) hometown with her family.
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Do you ever wonder what bugs are thinking as they go about their business every day? How do spiders feel when they hear the roar of the vacuum cleaner? Do flies want a place of their own, away from their many brothers and sisters? Do worms feel like they measure up to their winged and

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Review: Disney's "Aladdin": Yes Please and Thank You

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Disney’s Aladdin is a Treat for the Whole Family From the second the music started and the carpet projection on the stage started to change color, I filled with such unexpected glee. I’m not kidding, it swept through me and as I looked over at my kids, their faces told a very similar story to

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Peter and the Wolf Comes to Life at the Symphony

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Peter and the Wolf comes to life at the Oregon Symphony! Will young Peter and his menagerie be able to outsmart the Big Bad Wolf? Join in the adventure as Prokofiev’s classic fairy tale introduces listeners to the instruments of the orchestra! Actress/narrator Pam Mahon joins conductor Norman Huynh and the entire Oregon Symphony orchestra

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Get Lost in the Dream Vortex

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I took my family to the new Hand2Mouth production, Dream|Logic, an hour-long discovery quest full of exciting characters, interactive adventures and beautifully and smartly engineered design. It’s hard to explain what this is other than to say it’s an fully immersive and interactive theater experience. Once everyone arrives in the “lobby”, people are separated into

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Improv for Kids with OCT’s Talented Improv Troupe

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Get ready for lots of laughs and fast-moving action at Impulse, the Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Young Professionals show. Impulse is an improv troupe of theatre students ages 14 and up who create fast-paced comedic scenes and games — all based on real-time audience suggestions. Starting with the show’s powerhouse opening, we knew we were in

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Beauty and the Beast: A Classic Tale with a Cajun Touch

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Jade Chan
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Jade Chan is a native Portlander who remembers when Lloyd Center was an open mall, the Pearl consisted of warehouses, card catalog drawers ringed the second-floor lobby of the Central Library, and traffic jams were rare. A freelance editor and a mom of two, she enjoys sharing her love for the arts and her (ever-changing) hometown with her family.
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It’s a tale as old as time, but a heads-up before you take your Belle and Lumiere fan to this Broadway Rose production: it’s not that version of the tale. Just utter “Beauty and the Beast,” and the child in your life (and probably you as well) pictures Belle in her provincial town, and later

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