‘We invite our histories to live with us’
I got a long memory. People say you crazy to remember. But I ain’t afraid to remember. I try to remember out loud. I keep my memories alive. I feed them. I got to feed them otherwise they’d eat [...]
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 [...]
The undoing of America 2000-2008
It didn’t take much. Some loose footing here, a push there. And then, in 2008, everything we’d been working toward since the end of World War II was gone. Many were caught off-guard, [...]
Profile Theatre explores the Lynn Nottage/Bertolt Brecht connection
Tonight through Sunday, December 7, Profile Theatre presents concert stagings of two plays in rotating repertory. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined set in the Democratic Republic [...]