Stage&Studio

For its 33rd season Milagro Theatre has chosen the theme home. The season opening show is about people without homes.  Join Dmae as she welcomes Milagro Theatre’s new producing creative director Roy Arauz and artist-in-residence  Georgina Escobar  who conceived … Read the rest

Dmae talks with one of the most inventive directors in Portland, Samantha Van Der Merwe, artistic director of Shaking The Tree Theatre.  We’ll hear about her original work devised with the cast and designers,  Head. Hands. Feet:Tales of Dismemberment … Read the rest

Dmae presents a fall membership drive one-hour edition of Stage & Studio. First up, we feature with Alexis Tidwell (Crystal) and Johari Nandi Mackey (Chiffon)who make up the dynamic trio chorus in  Little Shop of Horrors    at Portland … Read the rest

Dmae Roberts talks with two authors beginning their book tours for KBOO’s membership drive show. First up, we’ll hear a short preview from Seattle author Nisi Shawl whose new book combines narratives from Belgium, Great Britain, the Congo  and … Read the rest

Dmae talks with Tim Dang , cialis one of the most influential Asian American/Pacific Islander theatre leaders in the country. After 23 years,  Dang recently stepped down as artistic director of East West Players in Los Angeles, the longest … Read the rest

Dmae features dancer  Subashini Ganesan, curator of New Expressive Works (N.E.W.) , an important space for independent performing artists. We’ll hear about an open house this weekend to preview all the classes and artists at the space. And in the … Read the rest

Dmae revisits with playwright Mia Chung who is back in Portland for a staged reading of her newest play  Catch as Catch Can  as part as the 18th annual JAW: A Playwright’s Festival at Portland Center Stage.   We’ll hear … Read the rest

Dmae features theatre outside of Portland along the I-5 corridor . First up we  feature Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s  Roe in Ashland, Oregon.  We talk with  Lavina Jadhwani ,  a Phil Killian Directing Fellow and the assistant director for… Read the rest

Dmae focuses on the Asylum lab, a place where professional actors and directors can explore classical theatre in a “gym”-like setting. It’s being developed by director Elizabeth Huffman. We’ll talk with Huffman and two actors in her Asylum lab actors … Read the rest

Dmae presents an in-depth look at safety for women in theatre inspired by a June 8th, Chicago Reader article titled At Profiles Theatre the drama—and abuse—is real   that shocked theatre communities around the country. The lengthy article was a … Read the rest

Dmae features veteran playwright Philip Kan Gotanda . She first talked to him three years ago when he came to do a talk at Reed College. Now he’s a Traveling Master for the Dramatists Guild Fund and will be teaching … Read the rest

Dmae features the Vanport Mosaic Festival that celebrates and remembers an important time and community in Portland history. She’ll talk  with festival co-artistic directors S. Renee Mitchell, Damaris Webb and Laura Lo Forti.  Damaris is the director/producer of … Read the rest

Dmae features defunkt Theatre’s world premiere production of  The Udmurts  by David Zellnik .  The Udmurt people are a diminishing ethnic group in the Udmurt Republic in Russia. The lead character in defunkt’s production meets an Udmurt woman … Read the rest

Dmae Roberts features a talk with Christopher Acebo, associate artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Chris Coleman, artistic director of Portland Center Stage . We’ll find out about the new season at OSF and get a backstage view … Read the rest

Dmae presents a special one-hour edition of Stage & Studio with two joyous musical productions, Portland Playhouse’s  Peter and the Starcatcher and Portland Opera’s The Magic Flute . Dmae   will offer tickets to both shows to support KBOO community … Read the rest

Dmae presents Daniel Jáquez, Interim Artistic Director of Milagro Theatre to who’s co-directing Into the Beautiful North by Karen Zacarías. The play is about a young woman, inspired by The Magnificent Seven enlists seven men to help her save her … Read the rest

Dmae Roberts features  The Amish Project by Jessica Dickey at Portland Actors Conservatory.  The play focuses on the 2006 killing of five Amish girls in Lancaster, Pennsylania when a gunman took 10 school girls hostage and shot eight of … Read the rest

Dmae features Profile Theatre’s production of   The Blue Door by Tanya Barfield . We’ll hear from director Bobby Bermea and actor Seth Rue about a highly poetic play steeped with the ghosts of history. The show runs April 7-24 … Read the rest

Dmae features two exhibits focusing on Asian exclusion laws: She’ll talk with Eliza Canty-Jones,  Editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly and director of community engagement at the  Oregon Historical Society . She’ll be joined with filmmaker Felicia Lowe who will … Read the rest

Dmae features Boom Arts, a theatre company dedicated to international and contemporary plays. She’ll talk with curator/producer and founde   from the upcoming production of  Free Outgoing  by Chennai, India-based playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar.   And in the latter part of the … Read the rest

Dmae features Post 5 Theatre’ s new season starting off with King Lear and immediately following, Othello. We’ll talk with director and co-artistic director Rusty Newton Tennant, veteran actor Tobias Andersen who plays Lear. We’ll also catch up with Allen … Read the rest

Dmae talks with Shalanda Sims about the Who I Am Celebrating Me performance highlighting African American history through theatre and dance. She’ll be joined by two high school seniors, Kyra Orr and Isaiah Sims, participating in the performances. And in … Read the rest

Dmae features two different shows, Breaking Rank at Well Art s and The Set-Up at Cygnet Productions . First up we talk with Jessica Dart, Facilitator/Director of   Breaking Rank , Belle Landau, Executive Director, Returning Veterans Project and writer … Read the rest

Dmae Roberts talks with playwright Mia Chung whose play  Y ou for Me for You opens February 3–28  at Portland Playhouse  directed by Gretchen Corbett. Chung  is in residence at the theatre and joins Dmae in the studio … Read the rest

Dmae features three staged readings starring African American actresses. First we hear about S. Renee Mitchell’s new play Ophelia in Oblivion , her personal tale of surviving family trauma. We’ll also feature Bonnie Ratner’s Hazardous Beauty , about two writing … Read the rest