A look inside the making of Triffle's "Happyness (The Wrecking Ball)" and Webb's "Precipice: re-remembering, forgetting, and claiming home."
Stage & Studio: Vanport Mosaic turns 10! Dmae Lo RobertsThe "memory activism" festival, established to tell stories of the lasting cultural effects of the 1948 Vanport Flood, continues w…
Believe the HYPE: Bag&Baggage's new youth performance group exemplifies a company that looks to theater's future Brett CampbellThe Hillsboro Youth Performance Ensemble offers youth hands…
A brilliant 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone' at Portland Playhouse (even with its NEA grant pulled) Darleen OrtegaAs its grant goes on the chopping block, August Wilson's American classic gets a…
Portland Center Stage launches $9 million emergency campaign Bob HicksThe city's biggest theater company aims to shore up its finances by June 2026 " and needs $2.5 million by the end of Aug…
DramaWatch: Â 'The Other Place'; Portland Playhouse campaigns to aid Oregon arts groups; Fuse's OUTwright Festival Linda FergusonPlus: More openings and continuing shows; Native Theater Pr…
'The Storyteller': Starlight and stories Linda FergusonPremiering at Artists Repertory Theatre, Sara Jean Accuardi's play explores the complexities of life and of storytelling, which is both…
'The Brothers Size': Heartbreak, erasure, resilience and connection Darleen OrtegaTarell Alvin McCraney's poetical play at Portland Center Stage embodies memories of prison and mystical char…
'Groundhog Day': Worth repeating Linda FergusonThe lively and thoughtful stage musical, based on the 1993 movie, creates its own magic at Lakewood Theatre.
Star Power: How Rogue Theater found its voice at Ashland's Grizzly Peak Winery Jim FlintThe company, which features many current and former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors, draws a loyal …
Stage & Studio: Sara Jean Accuardi on launching 'The Storyteller' Dmae Lo RobertsIn her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the playwright about her world premiere at Artists Rep an…
A Grimm 'Iron Jo': Send in the puppets Caitlin Nolan... and the bucket, and a hero and a villain, and a few good songs and an ode to fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm in Elliot Lorenc's new…
Fertile Ground: 'Who's Who' across the decades Darleen OrtegaIn Marshall Welch's promising play from Rogue Pack, two girls "meet" through notes left 70 years ago in a library copy of "Who's …
DramaWatch: Meaning and music in 'Another Dialogue' and 'Ballad of Iron Jo' Linda FergusonMusic is key in productions from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and Bag&Baggage. Plu…
Fertile Ground wrap-up: Four shows from a vibrant festival Linda Ferguson"Rogues," "545," "Unbound: A Bookish Musical," and "Camp Fire Stories" offered a rich array of theater at this year's…
Salomé's spellbinding strangeness Linda FergusonImago Theatre's mesmerizing production embraces the wonderful weirdness of Oscar Wilde's verse play … and then some.
The bouyant absurdity of 'Melancholy Play' Linda FergusonA parachute keeps the comic action moving in Blinking Eye Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's oddly uplifting play about sadness.
Fertile Ground: Homegrown plays, west of the hills Brett CampbellThis year's greater Portland festival of new works inspires creation of original theater pieces in Beaverton, Hillsboro and b…
'You Can't Be Serious': Andrea Parson's solo show inspired by her sister's death comes to Astoria Lori TobiasThe choreographer will present her award-winning performance of dance and storyte…
Catherine E. Coulson: 'The Log Lady' and so much more Jim FlintThe Ashland Independent Film Festival will honor the "Twin Peaks" star and one of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's most belov…
A farewell to James Edmondson, longtime star at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Jim FlintEdmondson, who began his long OSF career in 1972 by playing Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew," died …
'Life of Pi:' A shipwreck and a tiger's tale Linda FergusonThe Broadway in Portland show at Keller Auditorium sates our hunger for spectacle by offering a sumptuous feast of projections and …
Spark Plug: Taking risks, building trust Brett CampbellLoading its sets in and out of a coffee shop via U-Haul with each performance, the intimate theater company brings new and homegrown th…
Drew Pisarra: How (and why) I updated Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' for Imago Theatre Drew PisarraWilde's wildly witty 1890s play, a scandal in its time, is rooted in 19th century melodrama. Pisarr…
High times, low comedy: Theatre in the Grove's 'Reefer Madness: The Musical' spoofs drug war hysteria Brett CampbellCampy modern musical adaptation of the notorious 1936 film brings illegal …