Fertile Ground Festival 2024 Announces Return With New Director Tamara Carroll
by Blair Ingenthron - September 29, 2023
The fifteenth Fertile Ground Festival comes with two significant changes: longtime Portland arts administrator and artist Tamara Carroll (they/them) steps into the role of Festival Director; and the Festival, typically held in January and February, will take place April 12 through 21, 2024. Get more...
Review: MYRA'S STORY at Corrib Theatre
by Krista Garver - May 12, 2023
MYRA’S STORY, a solo show by Brian Foster now running at Corrib Theatre, takes an unflinching look at the factors that resulted in a woman becoming an alcoholic and losing her home....
METAVERSE Comes to Corrib Theatre This Month
by Stephi Wild - November 08, 2022
In the near future, a tech developer has been tasked with replicating the sensation of human touch in Virtual Reality, which is also the only means by which she is able to communicate with her teenage daughter in an eerily restricted society. As the bureaucracy of her company becomes more opaque and...
THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT Staged Readings Announced at Corrib Theatre
by Stephi Wild - October 04, 2022
Corrib Theatre presents a Staged Reading of The Frederick Douglass Project—co-written by Psalmayene 24 and Deirdre Kinahan. The Project explores Frederick Douglass' consequential visit to Ireland during the Great Hunger (Famine) of 1845, and imagines his meditations on freedom and bondage during tha...
Review: KISSING THE WITCH at Corrib Theatre
by Krista Garver - June 21, 2022
Corrib’s production, directed by Tracy Cameron Francis, uses movement and visual effects to bring the magical, mystical nature of fairy tales to the forefront, while also reinforcing that these are real people dealing with real issues....
Corrib Theatre Presents KISSING THE WITCH in June
by Stephi Wild - May 24, 2022
Corrib Theatre presents the Northwest Premiere of award-winning Irish writer Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, directed by Tracy Cameron Francis. With a four-person ensemble cast taking on multiple roles throughout, Kissing the Witch upends classical fairytales and flips them into the land of femin...
BWW Review: THE SMUGGLER at Corrib Theatre
by Krista Garver - May 11, 2022
Ronán Noone's THE SMUGGLER, now running at Corrib Theatre, tells the harrowing and sympathetic tale of an Irish immigrant’s struggle to support his family....
MAZ & BRICKS Comes to Corrib Theatre This Month
by Stephi Wild - February 01, 2022
Corrib Theatre presents the West Coast Premiere of Eva O'Connor's Maz & Bricks, directed by Melody Erfani. The limited run dates for Maz & Bricks are February 18 through March 13, at The Boiler Room, Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave, in Portland, Oregon....