Bennett Campbell Ferguson

My essential seven: E.M. Lewis

A new short film pushes back against “model minority” Asian stereotypes.

The short film was inspired, in part, by the towering mural on the side of the Carlyle Building in downtown Portland of the same name.

My Essential Seven: Jean-Luc Boucherot.

Vibrant and beautifully bracing, Anthony Hudson’s production gets a kick out of messing with you.

The audio play makes good use of its svelte 20-minute running time, telling a story of race, politics and mental health that is as moving as it is enlightening.

The featured projects also reflect on everything from anti-Asian hate crimes to the regrets of a Latinx guard of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Profile Theatre is staging the production in the Zidell family’s old Barge Building.

Watching the film won’t teach you what all 78 cards in a tarot deck mean, but it will teach you that those cards have the power to illuminate and instruct.

Clackamas Rep’s production may joke about everything from gerrymandering to Diet Coke, but above all, it is a play about and for people who love theater.

In one hour and 45 minutes, the play takes on many intriguing ideas—including nostalgia, toxic masculinity and hell.

What silliness through yonder window breaks?

The Artist Rep audio production is a sonic universe of disparate and delightful characters.

“But when I want to realize my potential—when a Black man wants to become a playwright—oh my God, this is the exclusive preserve of the white elites.”

The film extravaganza will play out on a 50-foot-tall screen at the Oaks Park Hangar.