We have planted 11 new readings for the Fertile Ground Festival, from April 12-21, 2024. Grab your pass and check out all of the fresh offerings.
The Ground is super Fertile!
Author: LineStorm Playwrights
Catch Rubin on air and online
Down under? Tune in for Rich Rubin’s WILL’S DRAMATURG, broadcast on Australian radio (Keppel FM 91.3, Queensland) on Thursday February 29 and Saturday March 2, 2024.
Rubin’s full-length drama DISPERSION OF LIGHT was selected as a semifinalist in the 2024 ScreenCraft Stage Play competition.
Bimonthly Reading Series: GROUP; OR MARLENE IS DEAD by Sofia Molimbi
Welcome to our first Bimonthly Reading of the year!
LineStorm Playwrights
in association with
Portland Center Stage
and Artists Repertory Theatre
present:
GROUP; or Marlene is Dead
By Sofia Molimbi
Directed by Francisco Garcia
Featuring:
Marlene: Barbie Wu*
Professor Stump/Axel: Jimmy Garcia*
Leonore: Tricia Castañeda-Guevara
Ben: Chris Conner*
Carmen: Kate Ming T’ien Duffly
Stacy Ann: Eleanor Amorós
Stage Directions: Holly Richards
*Actors’ Equity Association
ASL Interpretation Provided by:
Ruth Nardecchia and Trani Morton
Sunday, February 4
5:00 p.m.
Portland Center Stage
128 NW 11th Ave. Portland, OR
SYNOPSIS:
“Group; or Marlene is Dead,” by Sofia Molimbi, is not your typical parenthood comedy. Set in modern day Portland, Oregon, “Group” follows the lives of five parents and two professors, who are all desperate to salvage their rocky home lives. Professor Marlene’s parenting class becomes an incubator that either kills you or saves you. This fast-paced tragicomedy is an honest portrayal of the struggles of relationships, divorce, fertility, and motherhood.
Get TWISTED with Ward and meet Barrett’s OLIVIA at the Chapel Theatre Co. Play Festival
Come see fresh ten-minute plays by Northwest writers!
January 26 – February 4, 2024
7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. performances; please check the schedule.
An inaugural REVELATION for Rubin
Rich Rubin’s full-length drama BOOK OF REVELATION was selected as one of six finalists for the 2023 (inaugural) Clive Awards, presented by New York City’s Fellowship for Performing Arts.
Lewis’s LIGHT shines in awards
Congratulations to E. M. Lewis! The 1st Stage production of HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, in Tysons, Virginia, was nominated for eight Helen Hayes Awards, including best production, ensemble, and director.
Seid takes the prize!
Congrats to Josie Seid for winning Best Supporting Performer in a Play for her work in SEVEN GUITARS with PassinArt Theatre Company.
Rubin investigates SHAKESPEARE’S SKULL
21ten’s Sunday reading series returns with a presentation of a comedy by Rich Rubin. The winner of the 2019 Portland Civic Theatre Guild New Play Award, Shakespeare’s Skull is a rollicking comedy about William Shakespeare and the grave-robbers who loved him.
January 21, 2024, 7-9:00 p.m.
Lewis in on the CASE OF THE FALLEN GIANT
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE FALLEN GIANT — a new opera by composer Evan Meier and librettist E. M. Lewis — has its professional world premiere at Opera Modesto in California this month, after its academic premiere at Portland State University in November/December.
Accuardi shares THE IMPORTANCE of high school plays
THE IMPORTANCE by Sara Jean Accuardi will be presented by Teen West at Ida B. Wells High School, December 8-12, 2023.
