Stage&Studio

Special Series: The -Ism Storytellers, Queer Elders

((L-R) Storytellers: Tim Seelig, choir director, Reid Vanderburgh, singer, Kathleen Saadat, poet/activist, Horatio Hung-Yan Law, visual artist and Host/Curator Sandra de Helen, writer.)

Stories bring people together in shared humanity. Personal stories can uplift, move and connect. In 2025, Dmae … Read the rest

Kristina Wong-food bank influencer

Kristina Wong, #foodbankinfluencer

Kristina Wong, actor, playwright and performance artist is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and the first Asian American woman to be named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama. She’s brought three of her solo shows to Portland. … Read the rest

Four Playwrights at Fertile Ground

Dmae Lo Roberts decided to focus on four female playwrights in the festival: Sandra de Helen, Josie Seid, Alisha Christiansen and Erin Rachel. 

A Timely Christmas Carol

Portland Playhouse has been bringing this classic play back a non-traditional thoroughly multiracial and often cross gender adaptation for the last three years which feels timely and relevant to today. Dmae Lo Roberts met with director Charles Grant and actor La'Tevin Alexander who portrays Scrooge.

Madonna of the Cat

It is the second production in its 4th season, 21Ten Theatre presents the world premiere of “Madonna of the Cat” by veteran playwright Sue Mach. The storylines of  Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” are a jumping off point that explores the missing … Read the rest

Olga Kravtsova

Olga Kravtsova’s Harvest of Woman

Olga Kravtsova is a Russian-born movement director, performer, and interdisciplinary artist artist who lives in Portland. She is opening a new solo show called “Harvest of Woman” which she describes as a “raw excavation of women’s unseen labor, endurance, and survival.”