"Rogues," "545," "Unbound: A Bookish Musical," and "Camp Fire Stories" offered a rich array of theater at this year’s festival of new works.
April 15, 2025Brett Campbell
This year's greater Portland festival of new works inspires creation of original theater pieces in Beaverton, Hillsboro and beyond.
April 9, 2025Brett Campbell
Loading its sets in and out of a coffee shop via U-Haul with each performance, the intimate theater collective brings new and homegrown theater works to Beaverton.
April 1, 2025Linda Ferguson
Oregon theaters will flourish under an invigorating shower of shows this month, with big attractions like Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” at Imago, the touring “ Life of Pi,” and the annual Fertile Ground festival of new works, April 4-19.
March 28, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in this podcast with Laotian-American theatermaker Samson Syharath and Indo-American writer/actor Jane Vogel Mantiri about their bicultural roots and their solo shows in Fertile Ground.
March 27, 2025Linda Ferguson
In Portland's festival of dozens of new works April 4-19, "Conciliation" reckons with the continuing effects of the Holocaust, "Rogues" mixes humor with an unflinching look at the realities of caregiving, and "Shelf Life" takes a musical look into one woman’s past.
March 18, 2025Linda Ferguson
Portland Center Stage presents a stirring production of "The Light." Fuse prepares "Great White Goes Down" for Fertile Ground. Twilight chronicles the beginnings of gay activism with "The Temperamentals." Plus more openings and continuing shows.
