Dmae Lo Roberts has the distinction of working with every member of the talented Gil-Kashiwabara family. She worked with John Kashiwabara as a scenic designer for three shows she’s directed including “Where The Mountain Meets The Moon” at Oregon Children’s … Read the rest
For more than 40 years, Philip Kan Gotanda, has been writing plays, screenplays and opera librettos that speak to the Asian-American experience. Many of his stage plays centered on the trauma and aftermath of WWII Incarceration Camps such as ““After … Read the rest
As we close 2023, we reflect on the state of the arts in Oregon. This was a year in which many theater companies in Portland went back to a reduced season of plays or delayed their season openings. Dance, opera, … Read the rest
The 8th Annual Festival Vanport Mosaic Festival is underway in Portland through May 29, 2023.
Curated and produced by Laura Lo Forti, who calls herself a Story Midwife, two artists who’ve worked with the festival through the years are taking … Read the rest
Grace Lin, a Taiwanese-American author and illustrator of more than 30 children’s books. She is a Newberry, Geisel and Caldecott honoree living in Northhampton, Massachusetts. Dmae Lo Roberts talked with Lin for the Stage and Studio podcast about her … Read the rest