{photo by Olivia Bucks. For the staged readings in Portland Center Stage’s JAW festival, actors have scripts in hand. Yet vividly written plays such as Will Eno’s cerebral and hilarious “Middletown” and instinctively sharp performances by the likes of (from left) Zoe Chao, Sharonlee McLean, Darius Pierce, Michael Fisher Welsh and Laura Faye Smith make [...]

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…was HUGE.
Come early for tonight’s 8:00 pm reading of Naomi Iizuka’s new play!
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Thanks for joining us for JAW 2009! We appreciate your attendance and participation.  If you would take just a few more minutes to complete our survey, you’ll also be entered into a drawing to win two free tickets to the performance of your choice in the upcoming 2009/10 season at Portland Center Stage.
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I’m sure we all remember writing speeches in high school and dreading the classmates laughing at us. Multiply that classroom by 50,000 and replace “classmates” with “professional critics…” and now you have the life experience of a playwright.
Truth is, no professional theatre would be possible for any of us (well, I’m sure I [...]

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DISCLAIMER: I think Kelsey wanted to make sure that the only person with an obliterated reputation is myself. So I got my own blog account. Just pretend it’s still anonymous.
I haven’t heard this many animal sounds since Discovery Channel aired a program about mating calls last summer. All I ask as an intern is [...]

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