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An Interactive Phone Call Connects Isolated Audience Members in “A Thousand Ways”

A Drive-In Theatrical Experience Will Pop Up in a Portland Parking Lot This Month

Risk/Reward, in partnership with Boom Arts, will transform a vacant parking lot in the Central Eastside into its stage for two performances on Saturday, July 18, where spectators can view the action unfold from the safety of their cars. Thanks to some assistance from XRAY.FM, the audio will be piped in through each vehicle’s stereo.

Kristina Wong's One-Woman Show Takes On Internet Activists And White Privilege

The Wong Street Journal is part standup, part TED Talk and part hip-hop show, and centers on her Uganda visit. Wong, who is Chinese American, claims she was treated “like a white woman for three weeks,” and suddenly found herself “the beneficiary of American colonialism and privilege.”

You're The Only One

“Please read these instructions carefully. Arrive at the site alone and unaccompanied. Turn off your cellphone.” The ticket for TeatroSOLO, a traveling theater experiment that opened in Portland on April 29, reads like a dispatch from MI6. The last sentence is underlined for emphasis. “If I’m not back by midnight, come find me,” I told … Continue reading You’re The Only One

Fertile Ground Diaries: Noise in the Waters

Low-pitched, ambient tones play loudly over projections of dark, fast-moving water on the walls of the Alberta Rose Theatre. Turquoise light bathes the proscenium stage, where a single man

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