Blake Stone News

WELCOME TO ARROYO'S is a moving and must-see play about family, grief, love, art, and the importance of being open to new perspectives and experiences. But more than anything else, it’s about community.

Celine Song's FAMILY is a surreal look at the messy self-perpetuating cycle of violence.

Receiving its world premiere at Theatre Vertigo, this script was workshopped and performed locally at the 2013 JAW: A Playwright's Festival at Portland Center Stage. Playwright Dominic Finocchiaro is teaming up with director Connery MacRae also later this season at CoHo Productions with The Found Dog Ribbon Dance.

Flat Rock Playhouse cools off this summer with Separate Beds, a playful, romantic comedy. This entertaining yet emotional story focuses on a decades-old marriage facing the unknown: an empty nest. Setting sail on a cruise to shake things up, two longtime spouses meet another couple who seems to have it all - romance, excitement, and spontaneity. But is the grass actually greener on the other side? Find out in this heartwarming and hilarious voyage of rediscovery.

Flat Rock Playhouse cools off this summer with Separate Beds, a playful, romantic comedy. This entertaining yet emotional story focuses on a decades-old marriage facing the unknown: an empty nest. Setting sail on a cruise to shake things up, two longtime spouses meet another couple who seems to have it all - romance, excitement, and spontaneity. But is the grass actually greener on the other side? Find out in this heartwarming and hilarious voyage of rediscovery. 

Chapel Theatre's resident theatre company, Chapel Theatre Collective(CTC) presents its third/final show of their inaugural season, the Northwest Premiere of Curve of Departure by Rachel Bonds, May 10-25, 2019. Directed by CTC's Co-Artistic Director Danielle Weathers, and starring Robert Barr, Shelley B. Shelley, Blake Stone and fellow Co-Artistic Director of CTC, Illya deTorres.

Lauren Gunderson's I AND YOU is a beautiful meditation on the universality of human experience and connection.

 Artists Repertory Theatre presents I and You by Lauren Gunderson as the final production of their 2017/18 season. Gunderson is the most-produced playwright in America for the second year in a row. She is a recipient of a Dramatist Guild Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, won the 2018 Steinberg for The Book of Will, and won the Steinberg American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014 for this revelatory drama. I and You runs from May 20 through June 17 on the Morrison Stage.

A pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the USA on a murderous rampage against right-wing pro-life conservatives, documenting their exploits online in explicit detail. Meanwhile, a slacker screenwriter named Owen tries to bang out his magnum opus in a hotel room as his best friend holds forth on rape and other manly enterprises. Paul Angelo directs the Portland Premiere of this surreal, darkly comic play that The New Yorker describes as "variously a rant, a riff, a rumble - about our notions of naturalism, objectification, perversity, and beauty. " Also: Jane Fonda appears. With legwarmers.

Artists Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with Staged!, presents A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION for the holidays.

Artists Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with Staged!, presents A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION for the holidays.

Artists Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with Staged!, presents A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION for the holidays.

Hip Hop Rap the Bard...Yo!

Having knocked critics off their feet and swept awards in New York City, Chicago, The Edinburgh FringeFestival, and London, TheBomb-ittyofErrors is now coming to Portland. The Bomb-itty of Errors is a high-paced, energetic, musical 'add-rap-tation' of William Shak espeare's TheComedyofErrors.Elizabethantimesgetpumpedupwithlivehip-hop flavor (that's right a live DJ on-stage interacting with the actors) in this hilarious, award-winning show.

The Old Opera House is proud to announce the winners of the 11th Annual New Voice Play Festival. Each year this one-act playwriting competition attracts some of the country's most gifted new playwrights; and this year over 60 playwrights sent us their work.