Dmae starts the new year off with the first of three shows featuring original works during the Fertile Ground Festival. Debuting before the festival is BLIND, the world premiere of Bonnie Ratner’s new play produced by the Chapel Theatre Collective. We’ll talk with Bonnie, her director William Earl Ray and Jason Glick who stars in […]

Dmae welcomes Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage to talk about two holiday time shows, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (which she directs) a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice and the Tony-award-winning musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Both shows are unusual holiday offerings and feature racially diverse casts. We’ll hear about both productions. […]

Dmae features a membership drive show of Matilda, the Musical at Northwest Children’s Theatre. She’ll talk with NWCT artistic director and director Sarah Jane Hardy and actress Ella Carson who plays Matilda. We’ll be giving away three pairs of tickets for your membership donation. Matilda runs Dec. 7-Jan-5, 2020.  (Aired 11am-noon 12/03/19 on KBOO 90.7 […]

Dmae talks with Playwright Maya Malán-González  and Director Alexandra Meda about A Xmas Cuento Remix at Milagro Theatre (Nov. 29-Dec. 22). The show gives a Latinx twist to the classic Dickens story A Christmas Carol. (Aired 11am-noon 11/19/19 on KBOO 90.7 FM or always on stagenstudio.com and always on  iTunes.) ABOUT THE PLAY: A modern-day, Latinx take on Dickens’ […]

Dmae features SOUL’D: the economics of our black body, a new devised ensemble piece that examines the American Economic Dream for Black Americans. She’ll talk with director Damaris Webb (who is also co-director of Vanport Mosaic) and actress Shareen Jacobs who performs in the ensemble.  SOUL’D runs Nov. 14-24 at the IFCC. (Aired 11am-noon 11/5/19 on KBOO 90.7 […]

Dmae features the 67th season of Lakewood Theatre Company with Shakespeare in Love. She’ll talk with director David Sikking about the romantic comedy that was first a film and now on stage. The show runs November 1 – December 8, 2019 in Lake Oswego. And she also features an excerpt of an interview by Jenna Yokoyama […]

Dmae features  A Clockwork Orange, a stage adaptation with music of Anthony Burgess’ own 1962 dystopian satirical novel of juvenile delinquency.  She’ll talk with artistic director Cassie Greer and associate artist Joey Copsey of Hillsboro’s Bag&Baggage Productions about how the stage play follows more closely to the novel than the film version and how the […]

Dmae talks with Portland author Rene Denfeld about The Butterfly Girl, her sequel to the The Child Finder. Her follow up to her book about Naomi, a private investigator, an exceptional young woman who has a talent for finding lost children. In this new book follows Naomi’s search for her own sister who has been missing for […]

Dmae presents a special one-hour membership edition of Stage & Studio on KBOO. We feature  Damaso Rodriquez, artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre to talk about the adaptation of 1984 by George Orwell as well highlights of the whole 2019/20 season. And in the second part of the show we’ll be joined by director Jessica […]

Dmae features the seventh season of Corrib Theatre’s focus on  plays by contemporary Irish playwrights. We’ll talk with founder and artistic director Gemma Whelan upcoming season that includes Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan, James X by Gerard Mannix Flynn, and Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue.  We’ll hear about the horrific history of unwed mothers […]