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BWW Review: Two Lonely People Briefly Find Connection in GOOD WITH PEOPLE, Presented by Our Shoes Are Red / The Performance Lab
by Krista Garver - June 10, 2017
In David Harrower's two-person drama GOOD WITH PEOPLE, two lonely people, stuck for different reasons in an otherwise empty hotel, manage to bridge many divides and find comfort in one another, at least for a short while.
Photo Flash: First Look at Imago Theatre's THE REUNION
by BWW News Desk - June 08, 2017
John, her husband, is continually ignored. Delores, his wife, tells all she meets that she's dying. The soon-to-be-gone and the invisible, Carol Triffle's motifs are lightly cloaked in this existential comedy of bad manners at a high school reunion.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival NOONS SERIES Returns 6/20
by BWW News Desk - June 07, 2017
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has unveiled its June/July Summer Festival Noons schedule, which features a wide variety of opportunities to engage on a deeper level with the OSF company and the works on our stages, six days a week.
Photo Flash: MAN OF LA MANCHA Opens Friday at Portland Opera
by BWW News Desk - June 07, 2017
Portland Opera will present the classic American musical, Mitch Leigh's Man of La Mancha, at the Keller Auditorium on Friday, June 9.
Pakistani Theatre Wallay with ON COMMON GROUND to Artists Rep
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2017
Artists Repertory Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and Ithaca College, partner with Islamabad's Theatre Wallay to present On Common Ground for Oregon audiences June 26 to July 4 at both venues.
PETE Announces Programming for a Summer of Fun!
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2017
PETE has an incredible summer of performance ahead. Join us at the Northwest New Works festival in Seattle (June 9-11), or Summerfest at CoHo Theater in Portland (July 13-16) for a look at our vodka-soaked Cold War tragi-comedy Deception Unit.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival to Celebrate JUNETEENTH
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2017
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will host its annual Juneteenth celebration on Monday, June 19 at noon on the Courtyard Stage. The event is free, though donations will be accepted for the Juneteenth Scholarship Fund.
TCG Announces 27th National Conference Awards
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2017
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, announces that at the 27th TCG National Conference: Full Circle in Portland, OR, from June 8-10, the following awards will be presented.
BWW Review: SORDID LIVES Mixes Camp with a Good Dose of Heart, at the OUTwright Theatre Festival
by Krista Garver - June 06, 2017
SORDID LIVES is a campy, over-the-top play about sex and acceptance in a Southern town. This production provides plenty of laughs and also highlights the very real struggle many people face just being themselves.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival to Celebrate Reopening of 'The Bricks' Courtyard
by BWW News Desk - June 02, 2017
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites the community to an "Access for All Brick Courtyard Celebration" Thursday, June 15 beginning at 5:00 p.m.
JAW: A Playwrights Festival Lineup Announced
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2017
Portland Center Stage at The Armory has selected the four playwrights who develop new plays in Portland during the 19th annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival.
Our Shoes Are Red Presents West Coast Premiere of GOOD WITH PEOPLE
by BWW News Desk - May 30, 2017
In Helensburgh, Scotland, barbed wire fence separates an idyllic coastal town from the site of its largest employer: Faselane nuclear base.
Imago Theatre Presents the World Premiere of THE REUNION
by BWW News Desk - May 30, 2017
John, her husband, is continually ignored. Delores, his wife, tells all she meets that she's dying. The soon-to-be-gone and the invisible, Carol Triffle's motifs are lightly cloaked in this existential comedy of bad manners at a high school reunion.
Review Roundup: CONSTELLATIONS at The Armory
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2017
Silas Weir Mitchell and Dana Green star in Constellations - playwright Nick Payne's exploration of love in the multiverse - opening at The Armory on May 19, with preview performances beginning May 13, and regular performances running through June 11.
BWW Review: In THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE, a Linguist Can't Find the Right Words for Love, at Portland Playhouse
by Krista Garver - May 26, 2017
THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE, the last show in Portland Playhouse's season, explores all of the ways language (spoken, written, nonverbal, even the language of food) both serves and fails us when it comes to human relationships.
Boog City Presents THE PORTABLE BOOG READER 10
by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2017
Boog City presents THE PORTABLE BOOG READER 10 Portland, Ore. and N.Y.C. Release Party on Sun., June 11, 1:00 p.m. at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY VS. THE DEVIL: AN AMERICAN MYTH to Premiere at New York Musical Festival
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2017
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY VS. THE DEVIL: AN AMERICAN MYTH  is an official selection of New York Musical Festival's (NYMF) 2017 Next Link Project. 
BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Provides a Good Dose of Welcome Frivolity, at Artists Rep
by Krista Garver - May 24, 2017
With its all-female cast and spectacular hats, Artists Reps production of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is just a heck of a lot of fun.
OUTwright Festival Presents SORDID LIVES This Spring
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2017
OUTwright Festival stages Sordid Lives: a black comedy about white trash..., running now through June 11, 2017.
BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS: Love in Every Universe, at Portland Center Stage
by Krista Garver - May 23, 2017
Nick Payne's CONSTELLATIONS is a smart, occasionally funny, and ultimately devastating play about love in the multiverse.
Triangle Productions Honors Female Playwrights with THE BROWN PAPER BAG SERIES
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2017
triangle productions! honors female playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance with an evening of readings from its Outreach program THE BROWN PAPER BAG SERIES.
Two New Play Commissions Announced at Artists Rep
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2017
Artists Repertory Theatre has extended two play commissions, as part of the company's ambitious new play development program Table|Room|Stage (T|R|S).
Photo Flash: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Artists Rep
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2017
 For the final production of its 2016/17 season, Artists Repertory Theatre presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, directed by Resident Artist Michael Mendelson.  Previews run May 16 through May 19, the play opens May 20 and runs through June 11 on the Alder Stage.
CONSTELLATIONS Opens Friday at The Armory
by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2017
Silas Weir Mitchell and Dana Green star in Constellations - playwright Nick Payne's exploration of love in the multiverse - opening at The Armory on May 19, with preview performances beginning May 13, and regular performances running through June 11. Portland Center Stage at The Armory's Artistic Director Chris Coleman will direct this multifaceted love story. Silas Weir Mitchell, who starred as the beloved Blutbad Monroe in NBC's six-season series Grimm, will play the beekeeper Roland. Dana Green, who was last seen at The Armory in Great Expectations and was also featured on Grimm as the Wesen Mabel Kurlon in season four, will play Roland's love interest, the physicist Marianne.
Milagro Receives $27,500 in Grant Funding
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2017
On March 14, 2017, Milagro received a $5,000 grant from the Ford Family Foundation to support Teatro Milagro's UNIDAD Arts Education residency program in Clatsop and Baker counties, in conjunction with the touring production of El Payaso. Started in 1957, the Ford Family Foundation makes grants to charities and governmental entities that predominantly benefit small communities in rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. For more information, visit www.tfff.org

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