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Episode 104: Presence
Download This Week An Interview with Portland actor Matthew Kerrigan Haggis practices his audition We’ve sometimes wondered how this week’s guest can seem so present on stage. The epitome of that wonder might revolve around his striking work behind a
Episode 103: Three biographies, one guest
Download This Week The Mission Statement Game An Interview with Portland actor Lauren Modica We’re lazy. That’s why we ask guests who come into Studio 5UDBS to write their own biographies for us to read by way of introduction. But there’s still work
Episode 102: Just do as I wright.
Download This Week Primacy of the Playwright Triangle Time: Nathan reviews Jewtopia Conventional wisdom tells us that a play…a stage performance, if you will…starts with a written script. Which means, in essence, that a play…a stage perf
Episode 101: How you feel.
Download This Week Sentient Theatre An Interview with former Willamette Week Stage and Screen Editor Rebecca Jacobson What if the theatre could know you better than you know yourself? What if it could observe you? Sense your emotional state of being? Ulti
Episode 100: Episode 100
Download What more is there to say? One hundred episodes of this thing that we thought might last ten…if we were lucky. But thanks to friends, contributors (in all senses), participants, colleagues, creative and critical artists, detractors, intervi
Episode 99: Whatever
Download This Week A review of Funhouse Lounge’s Puppet Fight Club Have you noticed that things have been a little…mmm…loose lately at Studio 5UDBS? A little more carefree as we approach Episode 100? This episode is no exception to the recen
Episode 98: Who am I?
Download This Week A review of Milagro Theatre’s production of Luis Mario Moncada Gil’s Opción Múltiple The 1957 film The Three Faces of Eve stars Joanne Woodward as a woman divided: Eve White, Eve Black, and Jane. Under psychiatrist Dr. Luther’
Episode 97: Pure Chaos
Download This Week A review of Profile Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone Triangle Time…with Nathan: Triangle Productions’ production of Martin St. Germain’s Becoming Dr. Ruth: An Unexpected Journey While Er
Episode 96: The Prado or The Zoo?
Download This Week A review of Boom Arts’ production of Rodrigo GarcÃa’s I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Son of A B*tch A discussion with actor and Theatre Vertigo Producing Artist Shawna Nordman The art museum is a civilized
Episode 95: Process-ing
Download This Week A review of Theatre Vertigo’s production of Lukas Barfuss’s The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents A discussion of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s creative process as it pertains to their production of Maria Irene Fornes’s