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OUR UTOPIA Comes to The Vault Theatre This Week


by Stephi Wild - September 13, 2023

Bag&Baggage Productions, Hillsboro’s resident professional theater company, explores the meaning of community in their world premiere of Our Utopia by Hillsboro playwright Carlos-Zenen Trujillo. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!...

E.M. Lewis Awarded The Mellon Foundation Playwright Residency At Artists Repertory Theatre E.M.


by A.A. Cristi - July 17, 2023

Local and renowned playwright and Resident Artist, E.M. Lewis has been awarded another three years of the Mellon Foundation Playwright Residency at Artists Repertory Theatre. The grant recognizes Lewis' outstanding contribution to the theatrical arts and provides a platform for continued development...

Honor-Winning SOU Graduate's Powerful New Play OUR UTOPIA, To Be Staged At Ashland New Plays Festival


by A.A. Cristi - April 19, 2023

On April 29 and 30, Ashland New Plays Festival continues its spring offerings with public readings of ANPF New Voices Playwright Carlos-Zenen Trujillo's powerful new work, Our Utopia, commissioned by Bag&Baggage Productions....

RED VELVET, WHO'S HOLIDAY! & More Set for Bag&Baggage Productions 2023/24 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 13, 2023

 Bag&Baggage Productions has announced their 2023-2024 season, the first under new Artistic Director Nik Whitcomb. ...

Artists Rep Announces Lava Alapai As New Associate Artistic Director


by A.A. Cristi - January 27, 2023

Portland-based director and Resident Artist, Lava Alapai has been named Artists Rep's Associate Artistic Director. This one-year artistic leadership residency is intended to prepare ART's Black artists to lead an arts organization of comparable size....

Ashland New Plays Festival to Return to In Person Performances With Developmental Readings Of Sarah Cho's STAINS


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 29, 2022

Ashland New Plays Festival is back in person with a development workshop of Sarah Cho's autobiographical play stains. A coming-of-age story about growing up poor, female, and Korean American in LA, the play follows its teen protagonist as she is mentored by an imaginary friend-who happens to be a wi...

Bag&Baggage Productions to Present Virtual Workshop of OUR UTOPIA


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 13, 2022

Bag&Baggage Productions will continue their 2021/22 season with a workshop production of Carlos-Zenen Trujillo’s Our Utopia., Join the actors, director, and playwright over Zoom on Wednesday, February 2nd, for a live script reading and talk-back discussion about the themes and stories presented in t...

29th Annual Ashland New Plays Festival Is Virtual Live And On Demand


by A.A. Cristi - October 21, 2021

Ashland New Plays Festival's 29th annual flagship Fall Festival features four new plays by Thomas Brandon, TyLie Shider, Meghan Brown, and Andrew Lee Creech. This year the festival takes place virtually with livestream readings and talkbacks October 21 through 24 at 6 pm PT each day, with an encore ...

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Announces O! Readings Series


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 26, 2021

Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced the month-long, five-play O! Reading Series. For this new initiative, five directors who are part of OSF’s artistic staff have each chosen a play to be performed as a live digital staged reading by some of OSF’s favorite actors....

Inda Craig-Galván's BERTH BREACH/BREECH BIRTH To Be Presented Virtually By Ashland New Plays Festival


by A.A. Cristi - April 20, 2021

Ashland New Plays Festival will present Craig-Galván's new play Berth Breach/Breech Birth with two live Zoom performances...

Past Shows

OUR UTOPIA
OUR UTOPIA
4/29 - 4/30/2023


"The word ‘utopia’ is so loaded. I think about it a lot. What does it mean? Does it mean love? Does it mean family? Does ...

STAINS by Sarah Cho
STAINS by Sarah Cho
7/9 - 7/10/2022


Join us in person this July 9 and 10 for readings of Sarah Cho's new play STAINS - acoming-of-age comedy about growing up poor, female, ...

Encore Week of Ashland New Plays Festival


Did you miss joining us for our 29th annual Fall Festival virtually? Enjoy an encore week of recorded, on-demand presentations. This year's winning plays are ...

29th Annual Fall Festival
29th Annual Fall Festival
10/20 - 10/24/2021


Join us for our 29th annual Fall Festival virtually! This year's winning plays are POCKET UNIVERSE by Thomas Brandon, CERTAIN ASPECTS OF CONFLICT IN THE ...

Berth Breach/Breech Birth by Inda Craig-Galván


Berth Breach/Breech Birth By Inda Craig-Galván Directed by Kyle Haden Featuring: Christiana Clark, Desean K. Terry, Shaun Heard, Josie Seid, and Samantha Wynette Miller During ...

On-Demand Encore of LONESOMES by Octavio Solis


Written in and for isolation, Lonesomes includes companion pieces Conrado and Paisley Blue. In part one, a man dogged by his past sins is looking ...

LONESOMES by Octavio Solis
LONESOMES by Octavio Solis
2/27 - 2/28/2021


ANPF is proud proud to present Octavio Solis' new work LONESOMES on Saturday, February 27, at 7:00 pm PT and Sunday, February 28, at 2:00 pm PT, ...

The Communist Revolution: A Ninth-Grade European History Project (There Will Be a Practical Demonstration) by Grace McLeod


Friday, October 23, at 4:00 pm PT Sunday, October 25, at 4:00 pm PT Sasha takes her ninth-grade European history class project to the extreme ...

ZERO by Ian August


Friday, October 23, at 7:30 pm PT Sunday, October 25, at 1:00 pm PT Deep in the woods of rural Connecticut lies a brick-laden Victorian ...

HYANNIS by Kari Bentley-Quinn


Thursday, October 22, at 4:00 pm PT Saturday, October 24, at 7:30 pm PT In a small Cape Cod town, Michelle and her mother Fran ...

THOSE DAYS ARE OVER by David Hilder


Thursday, October 22, at 7:30 pm PT Saturday, October 24, at 4:00 pm PT Those Days Are Over concerns the five MacKillop sisters in the ...

TRUTH BE TOLD by William Cameron


Wednesday, October 21, at 7:30 pm PT Saturday, October 24, at 1:00 pm PT Kathleen Abedons teenage son Julian carries an automatic weapon into his ...

The Communist Revolution: A Ninth-Grade European History Project (There Will Be a Practical Demonstration) by Grace McLeod


Friday, October 23, at 4:00 pm PT Sunday, October 25, at 4:00 pm PT Sasha takes her ninth-grade European history class project to the extreme ...

ZERO by Ian August


Friday, October 23, at 7:30 pm PT Sunday, October 25, at 1:00 pm PT Deep in the woods of rural Connecticut lies a brick-laden Victorian ...

HYANNIS by Kari Bentley-Quinn


Thursday, October 22, at 4:00 pm PT Saturday, October 24, at 7:30 pm PT In a small Cape Cod town, Michelle and her mother Fran ...

THOSE DAYS ARE OVER by David Hilder


Thursday, October 22, at 7:30 pm PT Saturday, October 24, at 4:00 pm PT Those Days Are Over concerns the five MacKillop sisters in the ...

TRUTH BE TOLD by William Cameron


Wednesday, October 21, at 7:30 pm PT Saturday, October 24, at 1:00 pm PT Kathleen Abedons teenage son Julian carries an automatic weapon into his ...

THE GUN SHOW
THE GUN SHOW
6/14 - 6/15/2019


Ashland New Plays Festival will present a special two-night full production of THE GUN SHOW by award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis at 7:30 pm on June ...

#GODHATESYOU: A new play by Emily Dendinger


#GODHATESYOU: A new play igniting conversations across the proverbial aisle Ashland, ORE -- Ashland New Plays Festival and Curious Theatre Company of Denver present a ...

ANPF 2018 Fall Festival
ANPF 2018 Fall Festival
10/17 - 10/21/2018


ANPF 2018 is our 27th season presenting the best new works to audiences in the Rogue Valley! Join us from October 17 – 21, 2018, ...

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Company in Portland Company
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Anastasia The Musical in Portland Anastasia The Musical
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