Hint on starting your theatre company

If your name begins with a number, you'll often come first in an alphabetical list of companies. Like this one announcing 13P's grant from the never-boring MAP Fund. Mazel tov to Erin Courtney and Ken Rus Schmoll, who will collaborate on our 13th and final production in 2012.

Scenes from the JAW Festival

Photos from the workshop of A Maze, and one critic's thoughts, on the Portland Center Stage site. I am hat guy.

Oregon Cheddar

This week you ought to be in Portland, Oregon, where some of the most fabulous people in American theatre (as well as the present writer) can be found in the same building.