The Delays at Theatre Vertigo

Fertile Ground Festival 2024 Announces Return With New Director Tamara Carroll

The fifteenth Fertile Ground Festival comes with two significant changes: longtime Portland arts administrator and artist Tamara Carroll (they/them) steps into the role of Festival Director; and the Festival, typically held in January and February, will take place April 12 through 21, 2024. Get more information about the event here!

Portland Playwrights Commissioned For Play At Home's Short Play Series

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??Portland Center Stage has joined the national theater project Play at Home and has commissioned four Portland playwrights to create short plays. The new script offerings are Sara Jean Accuardi's Joy Frickin' Hates Her Dumb Stupid Room, E. M. Lewis' The Third Prisoner, Anya Pearson's Three Love Songs, and Josie Seid's Wing and a Prayer.

BWW Review: Life's Layovers Become Permanent in THE DELAYS, at Theatre Vertigo

Most of our cultural stories (plays, movies, news stories) are about the first group. In THE DELAYS, now in its world premiere at Theatre Vertigo, Sara Jean Accuardi gives us a look into the lives of some people in the second group. It's a moving, well-crafted play that shows how easy it is to get trapped.

10 Things to See at Fertile Ground 2019

The 10th Anniversary Fertile Ground Festival starts in just over a week! This year's festival features more than 70 works, including plays, musicals, storytelling, dance, comedy, and more.

Season 21 Continues At Theatre Vertigo With A World Premiere By Sara Jean Accuardi

How did you become who you are today, and what dreams have you let go? In an airport, where everyone is busy going somewhere, The Delays focuses on a group going nowhere. Taking place around the New Year, and traveling back ten years, and another ten years, the past lives of these characters slowly reveal themselves, while asking bigger questions. Written by local playwright, Sara Jean Accuardi, following tradition of our winter commissioned works.