Press & Media

20 Oregon artists win $25,000 awards

The Miller Foundation’s individual Spark Award grants are the first in a three-year program that eventually will award 60 grants totaling $1.5 million to a broad range of artists.

The Delays at Doane University

Doane University students perform, produce ‘The Delays’ this week

KMRE AESpotlight: The Storyteller at WWU

Arts & Entertainment Spotlight from KMRE FM.

Listen Now

The Theatre Analyst: The Storyteller

Western Washington University’s Febuary 2025 Production

Review: Chick Fight

CHICK FIGHT, a new devised work from Shaking the Tree that seeks to answer the question “Why are women so horrible to each other?”

Review: Chick Fight

A Mysterious Male Voice Forces Two Strangers Into Battle in “Chick Fight”

Review: The Delays

Life’s Layovers Become Permanent in THE DELAYS, at Theatre Vertigo

Review: THE DELAYS

Teen Detectives, Embattled Siblings and an Airport are Among Fertile Ground’s Highlights

Review: Portrait of the Widow Kinski

New play ‘Portrait of the Widow Kinski’ explores the powers of love and trust

Review: Landscape

A touching, disturbing and hysterical tale of American folly

Review: Chick FIght

Shaking the Tree’s Chick Fight Is a Thrilling Live Wire

2023 Oregon Book Award Winners

The Oregon Book Awards, the annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished writers, announced its 2023 winners.

2021 Oregon Literary Fellow

Literary Arts is thrilled to introduce the 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients!

Playmakers Repertory Company

The Storyteller: International Thomas Wolfe Playwrighting Competition Winner

WW’s List of Portland’s Top 10 Plays of 2019

One of our theater critics saw 37 plays during the last 12 months. Here are the highlights.

Alumni Spotlight: Sara Jean Accuardi

PSU Alumna Wins Oregon Literary Arts Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship in Drama

Portland Tribune: Oregon Book Award

Sara Jean Accuardi, a Lake Oswego native and Portland resident, hopes that a theater company makes “The Storyteller” into a full production.

DramaWatch: Drammys for all

The annual Drammy Awards ceremony, which celebrates outstanding work in Portland-area theater.

2022 Fertile Ground Festival

5 Things to Check Out at the 2022 Fertile Ground Festival

2021 Oregon Book Awards

Here Are the Finalists for This Year’s Oregon Book Awards.

2021 Oregon Book Awards

Here are the 35 finalists for the 2021 Oregon Book Awards

Seeking Refuge: Enjoy a live performance again

Shaking the Tree’s new multimedia installation offers the electricity of in-person theater in a safe viewing experience.

Shows to see

7 Portland theater shows that’ll keep off the chill this winter

Productions We’re Excited About

Here are some of the productions we’re most excited about through March 2019.

Landscape Preview

Portland stages offer globetrotting adventures this winter.

DramaWatch Landscape Preview

DramaWatch: Digging deep into Fertile Ground, and other adventures onstage

10 things to see

Here’s a list of 10 shows I’m particularly excited about.

Dramawatch

DramaWatch: ‘Queens Girl’ moves to Africa

Fertile Ground Festival

Fertile Ground, the Annual Festival of New Productions, Brings Love, Sex and Puppets to a Screen Near You

Play at Home: Portland Center Stage

Portland Center Stage recently joined Play at Home, a national theatre project where playwrights write short plays for us non-actor folks to perform at home.

Joy Frickin’ Hates Her Dumb Stupid Room

Portland Center Stage Unveils Four New Plays for People to Perform at Home

Get your festival on

Portland’s 13th annual festival of new works Jan. 27-Feb. 6 features 37 online projects, from dance to theater to puppetry and more.

Convergence

Oregon Origins Project presents Sara Jean Accuardi’s ‘Convergence’

Play at home

I loved the inventiveness of this play, and it’s funny throughout, even down to the stage directions
– Gigi Little

Fertile Ground 2: ‘Dorothy’s Dictionary,’ etc.

In E.M. Lewis’s newest play and several others at the new-works fest, the key question is “talking it thru.”

Documentary

7 Devils Playwrigth Conference 2015

June 8-20 in McCall, Idaho

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Announces 2015 Writers

JAW 2012 wrap up

Portland Center Stage adds water to creative spirit

Promising productions

The Fertile Ground Festival, now in its fourth year, has grown to include more than 100 events.

JAW: A Playwrights’ Festival 2010

Host Dmae Roberts features JAW: A Playwrights’ Festival 2010. She talks with Sara Jean Accuardi.

Jaw Festival

Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival gives playwrights — including Sara Jean Accuardi –an Act 1

JAW 2010

July Brings a Wealth of Wide-Eyed Obsessives to Portland Center Stage’s JAW 2010