Dr Fun in PlayLand

For the Equity-mandated day off, the entire JAW company, along with most of Portland Center Stage's staff, decamped for the Oregon Coast. An hour's drive transported us from Portlandia to Ecotopia's rocky, commanding coastline, viewed from high atop Ecola State Park. The actual beach was a vertiginous mile-and-a-half hike through the woods, past woodland flowers and gurgling brooks and under...

Ecco, the latest vlog created for JAW by the fab Patrick Weishampel. I never seem to wind up in any of these....is this because I'm a moving target at the Festival, or is it just because I'm pulchritudinously challenged, eh, PW??? If you look closely during the one of the canteen interviews, you can see supernova Storm Large gesticulating in the background, and then later rehearsing a...

We like ourselves, don't we?

JAW: Made in Oregon came to a gloriously off-the-rails finish this evening with Hunt Holman's crazy-ass epic, Willow Jade. Even before the reading started, we knew we were in for a nutty evening when Kelsey noticed a typo in the program. Hunt's bio started out" "The lays of Hunt Holman include Spanish Girl..." Ay yi yi. What can I say. We. Play. Rough. And now we press on, as all the...

JAW: Made in Oregon continues this Wednesday with Ginny Foster's new play, Starvation Heights, adapted from Gregg Olsen 's best-selling true-crime novel of the same name. The question I pose to Ginny below is excerpted from a fuller interview just posted on PCS 's site; click here to read the whole conversation. -------------------------- --------------- Q: Do you feel Starvation Heights is an...

I swear I didn't do it.

As JAW: Made in Oregon crescendos on Thursday, July 10, you’ll be treated to the work of one of the wittiest, most well-observed social satirists I know: Hunt Holman. That evening we’ll be hearing Willow Jade, which centers around a rooming house whose most mysterious tenants may or may not be on the lam and have a tantalizing bounty on their heads. The prospect has a galvanizing...