Fertile Ground 2021: Digital seedlings sprout
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
January 25, 2021
Portland’s annual festival of new works, running Jan. 28-Feb. 7, has become a garden of virtual theater.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, running Jan. 28-Feb. 7, has become a garden of virtual theater.
Vision 2020, new/old Five Oaks Museum, Second Winter music, blood sweat & fears onstage, storm of the (last) century.
“Women of Will,” a season-highlight at Portland Playhouse, charts Shakespeare’s growth through his female characters.
Same old story? Brash new wave? In Oregon this week, old and new and always mix it up.
“The Wolves” highlights a theater week that also includes the Mueller Report on stage and a Vertigo dark comedy.
The mirror crack’d: Art ripped from the anxieties and tensions of an unruly world at large.
“The David Lynch of Portland theater” strikes up its 22nd season with a broodingly funny world premiere.
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you,” the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us. But you — by which I mean we humans — are under an obligation, or at least a compulsion, to make sense of the
What terrifies you the most? Ghosts? Snakes? Serial killers? Whatever your answer, I guarantee that if you go see Theatre Vertigo‘s profoundly disturbing new production of Erin Courtney’s A Map of Virtue, the image of a new monster will be carved into
For two decades, Theatre Vertigo has been sending postcards from the edge of the middle-class American sensibility. It’s developed a reputation for gritty, rough, challenging, neurotic, and hilarious theater – often at the same time. Some of the most thrilling pieces of
The theater artist Robert Quillen Camp has taught at Brown, Santa Barbara and Lewis & Clark College. He has what he calls a “practical” graduate degree (an MFA from Brown) as well as a PhD (UC Santa Barbara). And PhDs are the
The New York Times lauds the liberties the Oregon Shakespeare Fest director takes with “Oklahoma!” Also, Red Door puts “Hands Up,” and Vertigo goes on a spree.
“I’ve always been interested in theater,” says Andrea Parson, “but I’ve always been on the outskirts of it, because I’m a ‘dancer,’ not an ‘actor.’” You can practically hear the air quotes as she speaks, conscious of the arts-discipline silos that so
There are those among us who — brace yourself for this — dislike musicals. Perhaps they hate them, with an active, withering passion, but more likely they simply dismiss the form altogether as sentimental or soapy or sappy or just stupid. Theater
Portland Playhouse has emerged over the past decade as one of the city’s top theaters for a variety of reasons: energetic young leadership, an invitingly casual atmosphere, and early sponsorship that resulted in free beer. But you might think of it as
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