PlayWrite: Using theater to transform the lives of at-risk Portland youth
March 14, 2022
An interview with the founder and creatives behind the non-profit PlayWrite
An interview with the founder and creatives behind the non-profit PlayWrite
The acclaimed Portland composer and cellist discusses her creative renaissance
Emily Marsh discusses her madcap adventures in the cult movie spoof show, which will be live in Eugene on Jan. 3 and Portland on Jan. 4.
Looking back with Katherine FitzGibbon on Resonance Ensemble’s year of provocative choral music
“Serious Cupcakes” is one of the contemporary dance company’s most physically adventurous shows.
The moving, imaginative film “Stories of Oceania” is the centerpiece of MediaRites and Theatre Diaspora’s Oceania Celebration.
From Brahms to the Eagles, one of Portland’s most versatile choral composers explains her multifaceted influences and methods.
Composer and pianist Wright explains how she and her students are fighting climate change using instruments made from trash
The star of the rapid-fire one-man show coming Nov. 14 to Portland’s Newmark Theatre talks in an ArtsWatch Q&A about the method behind his miraculous madness.
The Portland contemporary dance company gets spooky—and silly—with “BloodyVox,” its seasonal splurge of the macabre.
How does the French-Canadian director of “Dune” terrify, thrill, and inspire audiences? Let us count the ways, from 1998 to now.
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
José González and Dañel Malán lead the resurgence of the Northwest’s only Latinx theater company.
A tale of time: The Oregon composer gave herself 10 years to decide if she was good at this. She is.
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
As the Daniel Craig era ends, a talk on James Bond’s past, present and future with expert Dr. Lisa Funnell.
After nine years as the company’s artistic director, Dámaso Rodríguez explains why he’s stepping down.
At Triangle, the author of “The Vagina Monologues” takes on her own journey into the trials of cancer.
Theater founder and executive director Donald Horn explains how he’s waging war on COVID-19.
Andrea Reinkemeyer’s music isn’t daunted by nature—even when nature is at its most disgusting, frightening and overwhelming.
Maeve Z O’Connor talks about her stuck-in-a-storm play “Omission,” opening at the Keizer Cultural Center.
As “The Oldest Profession” nears an end, a look at the method that shapes Paula Vogel’s incendiary work.
Part one in a series about how theater companies are transitioning back to in-person performances.
Renegade Opera’s “Orfeo in Underland” chronicles a tragic and transcendent journey to the afterlife.
Jenn Grinels and Merideth Kaye Clark discuss the concert version of a musical about a woman who fought in the Civil War.
A singer grapples with Alzheimer’s in the new chamber opera “A Song by Mahler” at Chamber Music Northwest.
On an overcast morning last March, Dr. Lisa Neher took to the streets of Tigard to film a short opera she had composed called Momentum.
Making magic in Laurelhurst Park with the family-friendly play “Hannah + the Healing Stone.”
Diana Burbano’s audio play “The Vertical City” is a tragic (and triumphant) vision of a futuristic PDX.
How a monologue series about race, gender, and sexual identity leapt from stage to screen.
How poet Joni Renee Whitworth transformed the pandemic experience into an experimental short film.
Theater goes to the movies: “See Me,” from Artist Rep’s DNA: Oxygen group, is premiering at the Film Festival.
Covid changed the game for the new-performance festival. But going virtual was a renaissance, not a retreat.
Fertile Ground 2021: An overlooked character from “A Christmas Carol” gets his close-up in “Fezziwig’s Fortune.”
A baking show and an augmented reality game at the Fertile Ground festival mix viewing with performing.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, running Jan. 28-Feb. 7, has become a garden of virtual theater.
Portland Playhouse closes 2020 with an epic virtual theater festival. We talk with the people who created it.
Portland’s Latinx theater and playwright Maya Malan-Gonzalez give “A Christmas Carol” a virtual update.
At Broadway Rose, a musical romantic comedy is streaming – and the stars sign on for the long run.
Director Patrick Walsh is bringing a filmed production of a Greek tragedy to prisons across Oregon.
In a mutating media landscape, Portland’s Hollywood Theatre, NW Film Center and Clinton St. Theater are learning to adapt.
A compilation of cat videos assembled by a Pittsburgh movie house owner seeks to help indie film palaces nationwide—including Oregon.
“Aberdeen,” Matt Sheehy’s musical memoir of grief and rebirth, is livestreaming this weekend.
PAMTA musical-theater awards go virtual with joy and poignance. The winners, and moments to remember.
Anthony Hudson teaches an online course on ‘Suspiria’: ‘a great horror movie and it summed up all of my politics.’
Fear, intimacy, and absurdity collide in CoHo’s “The Found Dog Ribbon Dance.”
Broadway Rose’s “Up and Away” is an affectionate yet subversive musical superhero parody.
Teatro Milagro’s leader talks about bilingual arts and the joys and perils of taking the show on the road.
Asylum Theatre reignites Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This” with intimate staging and palpable emotion.
“The Brothers Paranormal” delivers a masterly blend of social commentary and supernatural horror.
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