Eleanor O’Brien: Fertile Ground Hall of Fame
O'Brien, who's taken her shows on female sexuality as far as Scotland, is a festival favorite whose shows regularly sell out, including this year's "Igniting Desire." So she's added perform…
O'Brien, who's taken her shows on female sexuality as far as Scotland, is a festival favorite whose shows regularly sell out, including this year's "Igniting Desire." So she's added perform…
As the theater world emerges from the abyss of the Covid years, Portland's festival of new works features 80-plus projects – among them plays by Dylan Hankins, Lisa Collins, and Niels Trum…
The Northwest Portland company carries on its rich clowning tradition as it transforms into a multipurpose theater center with partners Third Rail and PETE.
As Portland's 2026 festival of new works kicks off, Jonathan Hernandez' "The Mask I Wear" and Stefan Feurherdt's "Tethered" get ready to unveil themselves to the world.
Thirty years into a popular Portland tradition, the Revels sing, dance and play with Scottish tradition as the company prepares to enter a new chapter in its life.
The company, Oregon's only Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island-focused theater, is expanding its vision and opening up to ideas from its audiences.
In William Thomas Berk's new play "Anno Machina: An Apocalyptic Elegy," a surviving Human Service Unit is left to find its own emotions and meaning in life.
The Oregon playwright's newest, opening at 21Ten Theatre, spins a small-town story of tart memories and emotional isolation on a family farm.
Playwrights Jen Silverman and Mike Lew come to town to work on tales of Houdini and a fatal hazing, and the festival goes on despite the abrupt loss of NEA funding.
Daaboul, founder of Tour de Force Productions, finally steps into the shoes of May in Sam Shepard's American classic of ill-fated love on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Trans actors Juliet Mylan and Ethan Feider talk about the risks and rewards of queer theater and their roles for Salt & Sage in Gillette's "Tears and Glitter" and "Mimetic Desire."
The future of Portland theater? Seven young artists who are making a difference Bobby BermeaDespite tough times, theater is NOT dead, Bobby Bermea declares, and talks with seven up-and-comin…
Vin Shambry: Peeling the 'Pass Over' onion Bobby BermeaAntoinette Nwandu's play, a co-production of Corrib Theatre and Historic Alberta House, holds a fascinating conversation between Black …
Remember Sowelu? The experimental ensemble is back with three new plays Bobby BermeaBobby Bermea: After several years of shifting to award-winning independent films, the ensemble returns to …
Bobby Bermea: Talking babies and surrogates and 'Samsara' with Lauren Yee Bobby BermeaThe prolific playwright, whose drama about an American couple and a surrogate mother in India is playing…
Bobby Bermea: Bruce meets Beckett Bobby BermeaAn aging man meets himself, 30 and 40 years earlier: Actor Bruce Burkhartsmeier and his telltale tape recorder take on the challenge and regrets…
'No More Candy': Mikki Gillette and Asae Dean, together again Bobby BermeaPlaywright Gillette and director Dean, who've developed a close working partnership over the years, dig deep into th…
Bobby Bermea: A theatrical ghost, rising Bobby BermeaThe Broken Planetarium gets ready to unleash "The Greenbrier Ghost." And like most things ghostly, this fresh work of music, theater, and…
Shooting the breeze with Kristoffer Diaz about 'Reggie Hoops' Bobby BermeaBobby Bermea talks with the Tony-nominated author of "Hell's Kitchen" about theater, writing, family, deadlines, und…
Bobby Bermea: PETE gets down to the Chekhov nitty-gritty Bobby BermeaWith its new adaptation "a seagull," the experimental theater troupe aims to sand off the romantic sheen and reclaim the …
Bobby Bermea: All along the 'Borderline' Bobby Bermea12-year-old actors Eli Ingraffea and Mila Kashiwabara talk about the joys and challenges of starring in Milagro's new play about survivi…