Bobby Bermea

In William Thomas Berk’s new play "Anno Machina: An Apocalyptic Elegy," a surviving Human Service Unit is left to find its own emotions and meaning in life.

The Oregon playwright's newest, opening at 21ten Theatre, spins a small-town story of tart memories and emotional isolation on a family farm.

Oregon author and editor Wendy N. Wagner talks with Bobby Bermea about her new novel, a "true crime/climate horror phantasmagoria" that The Library Journal calls "a tightly written master class in horror."

Bobby Bermea talks with the longtime Portland theater leader about her new podcast focusing on the rich arts and cultural scene in her new home across the Columbia River.

Trans actors Juliet Mylan and Ethan Feider talk about the risks and rewards of queer theater and their roles for Salt & Sage in Gillette's "Tears and Glitter" and "Mimetic Desire."

Despite tough times, theater is NOT dead, Bobby Bermea declares, and talks with seven up-and-coming theater artists who are changing the game on Portland stages.

The prolific playwright, whose drama about an American couple and a surrogate mother in India is playing at Profile Theatre, talks about big dreams and "the prickly, messy places where cultures collide."

An aging man meets himself, 30 and 40 years earlier: Actor Bruce Burkhartsmeier and his telltale tape recorder take on the challenge and regrets of Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape."

Playwright Gillette and director Dean, who've developed a close working partnership over the years, dig deep into the story of a trans romance for their newest premiere.

The Broken Planetarium gets ready to unleash "The Greenbrier Ghost." And like most things ghostly, this fresh work of music, theater, and free expression plays by its own rules.

The experimental opera "Te Moana Meridian," premiering at PICA's TBA Fest, is also a push to decolonialize the Prime Meridian and shift it to international waters in the Pacific Ocean.

12-year-old actors Eli Ingraffea and Mila Kashiwabara talk about the joys and challenges of starring in Milagro's new play about surviving along the Southwest border – complete with ghosts.

The Portland poet, actor and playwright, whose "From a Hole in the Ground" has just opened in a co-production from Corrib and Alberta House, is "interested in breaking the rules of reality.”

As Portland's sprawling 10-day festival of new performance prepares to hit the stage running, the creators of half a dozen fresh shows talk about what they're doing and why.

An Irish playwright and a Dublin director bring a contemporary play to Corrib Theatre about racial attitudes and the steps that white people "must take to clean up the mess they have made."

Boosted by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, "The Hatchery" will help launch new theater works that emphasize music and movement.

Sure, it's an entertaining action flick. But its connections to Christmas are surface stuff. Go ahead: Watch it, and have fun. But when it comes to the spirit of the holiday, it doesn't fit the bill.

Ajai Tripathi's new play "Great White Gets Off," seeded during the pandemic, looks at racial and power dynamics and the way they play into a romantic relationship.

Bobby Bermea: The talented actor Lester Purry, who's created a bond with Portland Playhouse, is back in town and creating his own kind of skinflint in the Playhouse's "A Christmas Carol."

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