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Ryan Copple: "Riese" And Beyond

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Host Dmae Roberts talks with Ryan Copple is a Vancouver, BC writer, editor and co-creator (with Kaleena Kiff) of the award-winning steam-punk digital series Riese narrated bySanctuaryand Stargate SG1 star Amanda Tapping. The series began as an indie online series and the... Read more

Future of Web Series

Airs at: Tue, 03/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Harold Phillips & Micki Selvitella Dmae Roberts explores the growing landscape of the web series via an actor, director and producer working on three different projects. Actor Harold Philips and Director Micki Selvitella, both theatre artists, will tell us what... Read more

Kid Simple and Writers Read 3

Airs at: Tue, 02/22/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae brings us Jordan Harrison's "Kid Simple: A Radio Play In The Flesh" directed by Tom Moorman, Sarah McGregor and JR Wickman at Coho Productions which runs through March 26th. We also hear the third installment of the Writers Read series which focuses on Northwest wr... Read more

Thara Memory and S. Renee Mitchell

Airs at: Tue, 02/15/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae talks with Portland Jazz great Thara Memory and Librettist S. Renee Mitchell about Sherman: A Jazz Opera opening at Ethos-IFCC during Black History Month. Sherman highlights Portland's jazz history during the 1940s-50s, a high point of jazz when a growth of African ... Read more

Comics Night at the Opera

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Twenty-five local cartoonists attended a special dress rehearsal of Puccini's Turandot at the Portland Opera, where they captured their impressions of the evening in comics form.  Comics Night at the Opera is the brainchild of Portland Opera's publicity and publications man... Read more

Portland International Film Festival and Writers Read

Airs at: Tue, 02/08/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Travel the world in 16 days through the Portland International Film Festival. Now in it's 34th year, PIFF draws more than 35,000 people each year to several venues in Portland to watch more than 100 films from all over the globe. Host Dmae Roberts talks with Bill Foster... Read more

Bridge of the Gods

Airs at: Tue, 02/01/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Host Dmae Roberts presents a membership edition of Stage & Studio featuring Native American Storyteller Ed Edmo from Tears of Joy Theatre's "Bridge of the Gods." This play tells the tale of the legendary Klickatat version of the fight between two chieftain brothers that c... Read more

Threads, Writers Read, and Chinese New Year

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Host/Producer Dmae Roberts continues coverage of the Fertile Ground festival of new work with Tonya Jone Miller and her solo show "Threads: The True Story of an Indiana Farm Girl in Viet Nam." We also debut the new "Writers Read" segment with Katharine Emlen of Eugene, O... Read more

Crispin Glover's Big Show

Airs at: Wed, 01/19/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Behind the Screen
Crispin Glover is an actor, author, independent filmmaker, and the impresario behind Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show, which includes dramatic narrations of his illustrated books Rat Catching and Oak Mot.  His most recent feature It Is Fine - Everything is Fine is th... Read more

Stories From The Streets & Ernest Bloch

Airs at: Tue, 01/18/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts presents "Stories From The Streets"-readings by Lunacy Stageworks & Streetroots newspaper as part of continued coverage on the Fertile Ground Festival. Producer Tali Singer also offers an artistic feature story on the the life, music and photographs of Orego... Read more