A POWER-ful walk through North Portland
The young always inherit the revolution. –Huey Newton In another time, in a historic North Portland neighborhood, a revolution was taking place. It began with young Black men in the [...]
Of Baking and a Slave Insurrection that never happened
When Martha Washington (Melanie Moseley) appears bound and gagged with an apple, in her own kitchen, a mere few days after the death of her husband and our first President George Washington, [...]
Fertile Ground (Re-imagined) 2021
The Fertile Ground Festival of New Works is alive, well, and just a little different this year! This 12th annual event, a program of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (PATA), is thrilled to [...]
Queens girl walks a tightrope
“For a Queens girl in the world, 1950 was a very interesting year in which to be born,” notes dramaturg Pancho Savery of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’s 2010 play Queens Girl in the [...]
Left Hook examines Portland’s past
It’s the mid-1970s, Portland, Oregon. At the Left Hook Boxing Club in the Albina neighborhood of North Portland, the club’s owner, Ty (Jasper Howard) sits in a squeaky desk chair at a [...]
Fertile Ground Festival 2017
Eleven days. More than 45 producers. Forty-four Portland-area venues. Portland, are you ready for the 9th annual Fertile Ground Festival 2017, a city-wide festival of theatrical works? Running [...]