Triangle Productions is closing its 25th anniversary season with a tribute to another long-running Portland theater institution: Storefront Theatre.

During its twenty year run, Storefront was infamous for productions that pushed every boundary imaginable. They put on over-the-top shows involving nudity, drugs, and a fabulous DIY aesthetic of glitter and glue guns—shows that ranged from Sam Shepherd (who came out to work with the theater) to a radical sex play about a porn store called “Quarters” to a reimagining of “Beauty and the Beast,” where the Beast bit the dust (and Beauty got naked).

“It was unsafe and a mess and the most magical, amazing, astounding place I had ever been in in my life,” recalls actor Wendy Westerwelle, a charismatic local actor who first performed with Storefront in 1974 and continues to grace stages today. “There was no, ‘what if it sells?’ There was no, ‘what’s our season?’ The politics of it was ‘screw it – we’re artists and we’re going to do what we do.’”

To introduce Triangle's show, "Storefront Revue: The Babes Are Back," we invited four Storefront vets to take us back in time. Here are some of the highlights from our interview with Don Horn, Henk Pander, and actors Wendy Westerwelle and Vana O’Brien.