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Translating Chekhov’s Experiments
by Kate Purdum
7 May 2025
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A Designer-Director-Dramaturg Dalliance
by Daphnie Sicre
3 July 2024
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Ten Years of The Gun Show
by E. M. Lewis, Nate Cohen
27 June 2024
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8 May 2018

Rachael Carnes discusses organizing Playwrights Say Never Again to School Shootings, a new anthology of work on gun violence by nineteen playwrights with readings all over the United States.

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Monday 9 April 2018
Portland, OR, United States

Artists Repertory Theatre, NAYA, and Native Arts & Cultures Foundation in Portland, Oregon presented the panel discussion “Responsibility to Represent: What is the artists responsibility to their community and how does it inspire/empower future generations of indigenous artists?” livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 9 April 2018 at 7:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 9:30 p.m. CDT(Chicago) / 10:30 p.m. EDT (New York).

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Equity in Action

2 April 2018

Holly Derr discusses the dramaturgical implications of playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle changing one of her characters to a woman in her newest play Manahatta, which premiered at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in March 2018.

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Look at Shakespeare, See a Native Play

22 January 2018

Off the Rails, which was produced at OSF in October, shows how Native plays can include depictions or descriptions of Native history as an element of lived experience, not as the entirety of the play’s purpose.

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Monday 15 January 2018
Ashland, OR, United States

Join community members for Ashland, Oregon's 30th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day City Celebration featuring music, spoken word, and dance livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 15 January at 12 p.m. PST-1:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 2 p.m. CST-3:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3 p.m. EST-4:30 p.m. EST (New York). 

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2 January 2018

Holly Derr interrogates green(drama)turgy at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and how stories can be used to reconnect people to their physical world.

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Take Them Into the Dirt

6 December 2017

Precious Yamaguchi takes part in Take Them Into the Dirt, a participatory production at OSF about legacy, storytelling, memory, and identity.

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Thursday 8 June to Saturday 10 June 2017
Portland, OR, United States

Theatre Communications Group presented the 2017 TCG National Conference: Full Circle (ASL-interpreted) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 8 June to Saturday 10 June. Share your thoughts and media with hashtags #tcg17 and #howlround in all social media platforms. Follow @TCG and @HowlRound in Twitter for updates.

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Wednesday 7 June 2017
Portland, OR, United States

Theatre Communications Group and the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (the Lab) present a Global Pre-Conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Wednesday 7 June 2017 from Portland, Oregon. Share your thoughts and media with #tcg17 and #howlround, and follow @TCG and @HowlRound in Twitter for updates.

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Saturday 29 April 2017
Ashland, OR, United States

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon presented the panel Soy Yo: When Geography, Identity, and Artistry Collide livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 29 April at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

 

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Saturday 4 March 2017
Portland, OR, United States

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival presented “The Past is Always Present: Luis Alfaro as a Citizen Artist”, a Festival Noon Conversation with Tiffany Ana López livestreamed on the global, commons-based HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 4 March at 12 p.m. PST (Portland) / 2 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3 p.m. EST (New York).

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Yvette Nolan

14 February 2017

In the first installment of this new series, a collaboration with Canada’s SpiderWebShow, Yvette Nolan ponders the porous boundary between the United States and Canada, and the importance of theatrical communication in difficult political times.

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7 February 2017

Artistic Director Josh Hecht reports on the first year of Profile Theatre’s Diversity and Inclusion Initiative, and shares insight from the process. 

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El Payaso in Flint

2 February 2017

Olga Sanchez on the writing and production process of El Payaso by Emilio Rodriguez at Milagro Theatre in Portland, OR.

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Monday 16 January 2017
Ashland, OR, United States

Celebrate with our community! Ashland, Oregon’s 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration features music, spoken word, and dance livestreamed on the global, commons-based HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 16 January at 12 p.m. PST–1:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 2 p.m. CST–3:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 3 p.m. EST–4:30 p.m. EST (New York).

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11 November 2016

Playwright Jacob Juntunen remembers Edward Albee’s generosity toward other playwrights.

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Sunday 9 October 2016
Ashland, OR, United States

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival presented an Oregon Humanities Think and Drink conversation between Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist Héctor Tobar and OSF playwright-in-residence Luis Alfaro livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 9 October at 10:30 a.m. PDT (Portland) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround.

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Saturday 1 October to Wednesday 5 October 2016
Ashland, OR, United States

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists National Conference & Festival, hosted by The Oregon Shakespeare Festivallivestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Saturday 1 October to Wednesday 5 October 2016

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Dramatic, Present, and Human

10 September 2016

In this cultural moment of divisiveness, how is one of the true stories of abortion theatricalized? Holly Derr considers Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s co-production of Roe by Lisa Loomer. 

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Thursday 7 July to Saturday 9 July 2016
Portland, OR, United States

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas presented the 31st Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 7 July to Saturday 9 July. Share your thoughts and media with hashtags #LMDA16 and #howlround in all social media platforms. Follow @LMDAmericas and @HowlRoundTV in Twitter for updates.

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Saturday 25 June 2016 
Ashland, OR, United States

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival presented Two Playwrights Talk Vietgone, a Festival Noon Conversation with Peter Sagal (Host of NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!) and Qui Nguyen (Playwright, Vietgone) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 25 June at 3:00 p.m. EDT – 4:00 p.m. EDT (New York) / 2:00 p.m. CDT – 3:00 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 12:00 p.m. PDT – 1:00 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles). Twitter @beyondabsurdity, @petersagal, @osfashland, @waitwait, and use hashtags #VietgoneOSF #Vietgone #FestivalNoons #howlround

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20 April 2016

Director and educator Theresa May writes about the potential of theatre about climate change to affect hearts and minds.

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13 April 2016

Christopher Goodson interviews Latina theatre artists Nelda Reyes, Rose Cano, and Carmen Aguirre about their thoughts on the current climate for Latina/o work in the Pacific Northwest.

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15 March 2016

Bill Rauch and Luis Alfaro talk about their connection to each other's work and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

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PortLAND

19 February 2016

In the first installment of her new series, Joan Marie Hurwit writes about spending time in Portland, Oregon, and how art is playing a role in a city in transition.

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