We’re presenting six brand-new staged readings: April 10-19, 2026.
Reserve your seats at Artists Repertory Theatre here.
Reserve your tix for Fertile Ground!
LineStorm + Smith & Kraus
More LineStormers are published in Smith & Kraus anthologies!
Check out the Best of 2025 anthologies for Monologues and Ten-Minute Plays, featuring works by Sofia Molimbi and SMOOTH OPERATOR by Rich Rubin.
Lewis and FRANKENSTEIN team up for December Bimonthly
Join us at our next Bimonthly Reading:
THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT
by E. M. Lewis
Directed by Luan Schooler
Sunday, December 7, 6-9pm @ Artists Repertory Theatre
Reserve your FREE tickets and find more info here.
Stage Manager: Danny Rosales*
CAST:
Mary Shelley: Maureen Porter*
Percy Shelley: Joshua J. Weinstein*
Lord Byron: Heath Hyun Houghton
John Polidori: Brian Burger*
Frederika Jones: Taya Dixon
Dr. Viktor Frankenstein: Darius Pierce*
Creature: Alec Lugo
Mary Lattimore: Sami Yacob-Andrus
Frank Lattimore: Henry Noble*
Ann Lattimore: Cristi Miles
Pete Harrison: John San Nicolas*
R23: Rae Davis
*Member Actors’ Equity
ASL coordinated by Dot Hearn
ASL interpreters: Sarika Mehta and Ruth Nardecchia
Get ready for Rubin’s PREMIERE
Rich Rubin’s full-length comedy CHEKHOV’S PREMIERE will receive a free public reading at Aloha High School (Beaverton, OR), directed by student Rio Burley.
November 20, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Leap back into Yoshikawa’s HOLE IN THE GROUND
NW Children’s Theater, in partnership with Corrib Theatre, is producing Ken Yoshikawa’s FROM A HOLE IN THE GROUND.
Nominated for a 2025 Oregon Book Award, this is an original fairy tale about mischief, nature, and a generational curse. September 27 – October 5, 2025.
Jump into Seid’s RULES OF THE ROPE
Playwright Josie Seid’s exploration of the way threads weave through generations is skillfully tied together with joyful Double Dutch jump-rope-inspired movement and original music.
Man Hats Collaboration’s The Hatchery, August 24 @ 7:00 p.m.
Rubin shines LIGHT in the desert
Rich Rubin’s full-length drama DISPERSION OF LIGHT will receive a world premiere production at the Desert Ensemble Theatre (Palm Springs, CA), January 23 – February 1, 2026.
DISPERSION OF LIGHT provides a behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous marriage between two titanic twentieth-century icons — artist Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Lewis enjoys bountiful APPLE harvest
The fruit is ripe this year, as E. M. Lewis has two apple-themed plays in Portland:
21Ten Theatre is producing APPLE SEASON, August 29 – September 21, 2025, directed by Francisco Garcia.
Read Bobby Bermea’s glowing profile in Oregon ArtsWatch!
ART is producing APPLE HUNTERS!, March 31 – April 26, 2026.
Yoshikawa selected as first Ellen Pullen Family Playwriting Resident
Congratulations to Ken Yoshikawa! As the pilot playwright in Corrib Theatre’s Pullen Family Residency, Ken will develop a new work inspired by Irish culture, history, or themes.
Ken and Corrib Artistic Director Holly Griffith will be co-writing a play inspired by the Irish Bean Sídhe (banshee).
CESSAIR flies again at August Bimonthly Reading Series
Join the journey as we present a workshop reading of a new musical:
CESSAIR: The Birth of Ireland
Music & Lyrics by Holly Richards
Book & Lyrics by Lolly Ward
Sunday, August 10, 5pm @ Artists Repertory Theatre
SOLD OUT! Please sign up for the waitlist on the ticket site or try at the door for available tickets on the day. We hope to see you!