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NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR GETS CENTER STAGE ROLLING WITH DOSTOEVSKY

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From: The Columbian
Date: 20001005
Author:BRETT OPPEGAARD, Columbian

BRETT OPPEGAARD, Columbian
The Columbian
10-05-2000
Whether Portland Center Stage needs revolutionary change can be debated, but such a major transformation has begun within the troupe nevertheless. New artistic director Chris Coleman opens his debut season with a complex, tense and even somewhat radical rendition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Devils," continuing through Oct. 22.
Such evolutionary steps usually come at a slow pace. Yet Coleman chose to begin his reign of the metropolitan area's largest theater company exactly where he wanted, not where Portland Center Stage left off. In ...

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