Full-Length Play

Rubin springs an OCTOBER SURPRISE

Tune into the Inkwell Theater’s Virtual Playwrights’ Night for an excerpt of Rich Rubin’s new full-length drama, OCTOBER SURPRISE.

To register to attend: inkw.in/pn-audience

Rubin’s Portland plays in online course

Two of Rich Rubin’s full-length plays that examine Portland’s troubled racial history, LEFT HOOK and COTTONWOOD IN THE FLOOD, will be featured in an online course.

Offered August 2–6, 2021, by Lewis & Clark’s Oregon Writing Project in collaboration with Vanport Mosaic.

The course is designed as a curriculum-building exercise for educators, with the goal of encouraging students to write about local history as well as their personal experiences. Facilitated by OWP director Linda Christensen and Damaris Webb, co-director of Vanport Mosaic.

Rubin is SWIMMING UPSTREAM in New York

Tune in for a Zoom reading by Break A Leg Productions:

Monday, July 19 @ 4pm PT

Kitrosser is playing in the park with HANNAH

Read all about Dan Kitrosser’s new play HANNAH + THE HEALING STONE in Oregon ArtsWatch.

Get going with Rubin’s SHAKESPEARE’S START

The Theatre Department at the College of Charleston is presenting a free Zoom reading of Rich Rubin’s SHAKESPEARE’S START (OR WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY). This two-act comedy set in the late 1580s was a finalist for the 2020 Todd McNerney Playwriting Award.

Wednesday April 21 @ 4:00 pm PT.

Click here to receive the free Zoom link.

Make time for Rubin’s timely CAESAR’S BLOOD

Portland’s Westminster Presbyterian Church presents:

CAESAR’S BLOOD by Rich Rubin

Saturday, April 17 @ 7:00 p.m. PT

Reserve your free ticket for this virtual reading: RSVP@westprespdx.org

Rubin and Next Stage reach a GRAND JUNCTION

Next Stage Press published Rich Rubin’s GRAND JUNCTION.

The play received its initial public reading as part of Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival at Artists Repertory Theatre in January 2018, directed by Pat Moran. It had a second public reading by the Portland Civic Theatre Guild at the Sanctuary Theatre in November 2018, directed by Micki Selvitella.

FEZZIWIG gets star treatment in Fertile Ground review

Read more about FEZZIWIG’S FORTUNE by Josie Seid and Sara Jean Accuardi in a delightful piece by Oregon ArtsWatch.

“Fezziwig tells his daughter, “To me, you were the brightest of lights.” Even on a screen, Fezziwig’s Fortune is a light unto itself. Just think how brightly it will shine when it makes it to the stage.”