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Awards commence. Announcement: Portland will be participating in Free Night of Theater this year. The program asks participating theaters to provide free tickets to new theater goers. And then people go see a play, and hopefully like it, and come back and see more theater and pay for it. That’s great news. Gracie Starr is […]

They just gave us the sit down and shut up signal. Shit’s about to get real, yo. There’s a big piece about Bob Hicks in the program, the Oregonian critic who retired in December. 35 years of writing about theater. That is, frankly, mind-blowing. I’ve only been doing it for four and I think about […]

Live blogging from the Drammys, Portland’s own local theater awards. Nothing has happened yet, so skip this post if all you’re looking for are winners—I’ll have those up as they’re announced. We’re at the Crystal Ballroom—I’m sitting in the corner grudgingly drinking a pink McBeer, while all around folks are mingling and schmoozing and waiting […]

There are some really good things happening onstage this weekend. 9 Parts of Desire sounds amazing—the one-woman show about nine very different Iraqi women is co-produced by CoHo and Cygnet Productions; my notoriously irascible freelance theater writer, Temple Lentz, called it “one of the most compelling pieces of solo theater you will ever see on […]