High roads, high notes
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
October 6, 2021
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
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Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
Out of the Covid crisis rises the captivating specter of François Villon, a wild 15th century poet for our times.
Imago director brings his offbeat imagination to Eugene Opera’s “Lucy” and his own “Satie’s Journey.”
Covid clipped the new company’s wings as it was taking flight. Now it’s back, with a set of six filmed shows.
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.
Stage & Studio: A conversation with founder Sankar Raman, plus a father’s talk with his daughter 20 years ago on 9/11.
Third Angle premieres an opera inspired by gentrification’s damage to Portland’s Black community.
Theater founder and executive director Donald Horn explains how he’s waging war on COVID-19.
The immigrant founder of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts says she often did not fit in – until she found theater.
PassinArt’s Pacific Northwest Multi-Cultural Festival serves a virtual feast of stories by and for artists of color.
Maeve Z O’Connor talks about her stuck-in-a-storm play “Omission,” opening at the Keizer Cultural Center.
Plus, Yamhill County galleries offer impressionistic paintings and clocks with an attitude.
As “The Oldest Profession” nears an end, a look at the method that shapes Paula Vogel’s incendiary work.
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
Part one in a series about how theater companies are transitioning back to in-person performances.
At the JAW New Play Fest, playwright Kate Hamill takes her updated Watson & Holmes mystery for a trial spin.
Imago takes Carol Triffle’s newest play offstage and onto radio. A cast member explores how and why they dunnit.
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.
A momentous podcast conversation with the artistic directors of two leading Portland youth companies.
When Coaster Theatre Playhouse moved shows outdoors, it confronted a new challenge: being heard.
Rebecca Martinez and Zi Alikhan talk about life, theater, and becoming national Rising Leaders of Color.
Making magic in Laurelhurst Park with the family-friendly play “Hannah + the Healing Stone.”
Dmae Roberts talks with the makers of a new incubator for Black/Queer Theatre, from Fuse and OUTwright.
Cygnet presents “Xingu,” an Edith Wharton radio play adaptation full of literature, lies, and laughter.
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.
Fertile Ground 2021: In “Livin’ in the Light,” opera singer Onry seeks a space for a Black man to breathe.
Fertile Ground 2021: An overlooked character from “A Christmas Carol” gets his close-up in “Fezziwig’s Fortune.”
Fertile Ground 2021: “The November Project,” which takes place in a bathroom, has roots in a life-turning crisis.
Fertile Ground: Mark LaPierre and Ian Anderson-Priddy’s zombie comic-book musical will make your pulse rush. If you have one.
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