Theater beyond age limits
Max Tapogna
June 9, 2021
Bonnie Vorenberg and ArtAge have helped spur a flourishing national scene of theater for older people.
Bonnie Vorenberg and ArtAge have helped spur a flourishing national scene of theater for older people.
Original Practice Shakespeare dives into the “Henry” trio of plays for three straight nights – online.
Diana Burbano’s audio play “The Vertical City” is a tragic (and triumphant) vision of a futuristic PDX.
The McMinnville theater reopens with Lance Nuttman in a one-man show about the nature of inspiration.
The director of Lauren Yee’s “The Great Leap” talks via podcast about racial equity, sound design & virtual theater.
Author Drew Pisarra and director Jerry Mouawad talk about their radio drama “The Strange Case of Nick M.”
Broadway Rose streams “The Last Five Years,” Center Stage gets a James Baldwin mural, Bard endures Plague.
How a monologue series about race, gender, and sexual identity leapt from stage to screen.
After a quiet year, the Nehalem theater company is back with a play in which all the characters are canine.
Actor Keith Mascoll digs into the issue of childhood sexual abuse in “Triggered Life,” from Portland Playhouse.
McKeen, who helped lead Oregon Children’s Theatre to national prominence, dies of pancreatic cancer.
Shaking the Tree’s new multimedia installation offers the electricity of in-person theater in a safe viewing experience.
Dmae Roberts moves her essential performance podcast to ArtsWatch. Up first: Costumer deluxe Wanda Walden.
Theater goes to the movies: “See Me,” from Artist Rep’s DNA: Oxygen group, is premiering at the Film Festival.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival meets the times with a hybrid season of new and old: video now, maybe onstage later.
In a world of trouble, Clowns Without Borders lightens the load. At the benefit Pandemic Pandemonium, you can pitch in.
Ian Doescher has built a mini-empire of modern pop tales retold Shakespeare style. May ye Force be withe hym.
Covid changed the game for the new-performance festival. But going virtual was a renaissance, not a retreat.
Fertile Ground 2021: Sue Mach’s “Madonna of the Cat” fills in the 16-year gap in Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale.”
Veteran Portland actor Tobias Andersen remembers talking with Plummer about how to play Prospero.
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