Celebrate spring with us at Fertile Ground!

Read all about our offerings in the Willamette Week and Oregon ArtsWatch or watch our KOIN TV interview, and then get your FREE tickets here.

April 4-6, 2025 at Artists Repertory Theatre.

Junior Year Abroad

Those STRANGE BIRDS are back!

This Monday, March 3rd at 7:30 PM, Strange Birds by E. M. Lewis will have a one-night-only reading before it heads to Eastern Oregon for a weeklong workshop at Fishtrap.

In a remote mountain cabin, five women reckon with dark forces in this fierce and funny feminist thriller. Strange Birds is about women and wolves… and sisters… and secrets.

Written by E. M. Lewis 

Directed by Melory Mirashrafi 

Featuring: 

Kayla Hanson as Lou 

R.L. Routh as Phoebe 

Sofía Marks as Gwylan 

Crystal Muñoz as Jo 

Taya Dixon as Whitney 

Brave Sohacki as The Wolf 

Stage Directions and Soundscape by Matt Cherub 

Produced by Shawn Lee (ART) and Shannon McNerney (Fishtrap)

Bimonthly Reading Series: RUSSIAN TROLL by Rich Rubin

Join us for a reading of Rich Rubin’s RUSSIAN TROLL, in partnership with Artists Repertory Theatre:

Sunday, June 9, at 5 p.m.

ART, 1515 SW Morrison St.

Reserve your FREE tickets here

The ground is getting fertile…

LineStorm is busy preparing for PATA’s Fertile Ground!

Special Fundraiser Performance at The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza

You Ruined My Play or, Svetlana! Svetlana!

by Dan Kitrosser
Starring: Dan Kitrosser & Alissa Jessup
Directed by Josh Hecht

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Jan. 26, Doors 6:30 p.m., Staged reading 7:30 p.m.
Purchase tickets for $20 or PWYW: Box Office Tickets

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Lunchtime (and Evening) Readings  @ Artists Rep

Jan. 24 – Jan. 31, NOON, and Feb. 1, 5:30 p.m., 2019

FREE! Just show up.

New ten-minute and full-length plays by LineStorm Playwrights.

1/24: To the Moon by Matthew Miller
1/25: 38 Minutes by Audrey Block
1/28: Small Bites: 10-Minute Plays by Sara Jean Accuardi, Heath Hyun Houghton, Kisha Jarrett, E. M. Lewis, Matthew Miller, Rich Rubin, and Lolly Ward
1/29: Welcome to Zion a new musical by friend of LineStorm Holly Harmon
1/30: Mate by Lolly Ward
1/31: Confabulous by Susan Faust
2/1 (5:30 p.m.): The Great God of the Dark Storm Cloud by Josie Seid

Matthew Miller explores the world of a MARTYR in our next Bimonthly Reading

LineStorm’s Bimonthly Reading Series continues with a harrowing tale of family and loss. MARTYR examines the intersection between sacrifice and sanctity, asking the question: How far would you go to exact revenge? Depicting graphic acts of torture, this play is recommended for a mature audience.

MARTYR by Matthew Miller

Sunday, December 2, 2018, 5-7:30pm, free
Artists Repertory Theatre, Studio 1

Brianna Barrett visits FLORENCE FANE IN SAN FRANCISCO for our next Bimonthly Reading

LineStorm’s Bimonthly Reading Series continues with a wartime adventure following a thoroughly badass lady writer, set in 1863 and based on the true story of Frances Fuller Victor.

FLORENCE FANE IN SAN FRANCISCO by Brianna Barrett

Sunday, September 16, 2018, 5pm, free
Artists Repertory Theatre, Studio 1