Adventures in Artslandia With Susannah Mars

Live from Artslandia 16/17 Launch Party!

Susannah sat down to chat with Kymberli Colbourne, Val Malllinson, Claire Willet, Scott Lewis from NW Dance Project, Bianca McCarthy from Echo Theatre, Kate Sipsey, and John Zajac from Isinglass, live from the Artslandia 16/17 Launch Party at The Society Hotel!

Do you have an Adventure in Artslandia?Email Susannah at smars@artslandia.com and tell her your adventure!

Hamilton Conductor Kurt Crowley

We had some technical difficulties with this interview, and between the time that we recorded this, and now, I had the supreme pleasure of watching my friend, Kurt Crowley, conduct HAMILTON on Broadway, which was, well, thrilling! Listen and learn about Kurt’s experiences as a member of the brilliant family of HAMILTON.

Jamie Rea, Bobby Bermea & Tiffany Groben

Meet Jamie Rea and Bobby Bermea, founders of The Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project.

BWWTP is a performing arts company in Portland, Oregon where artists of historically disenfranchised communities come to do their best work and where audiences in these communities can find themselves represented.

Also meet Tiffany Groben who will be acting in their first production opening October 28th, REBORNING by Zayd Dohrn.

Do you have an Adventure for Susannah you’d like to chat about?

Email Susannah at smars@artslandia.comand tell her your adventure!

Vin Shambry and E.M. Lewis

Don’t miss this conversation with Ellen Lewis and Vin Shambry about The Gun Show.The Gun Show takes aim at America’s most dangerous past-time with brutal honesty and poignant humor. Leaning neither right nor left, it jumps into the middle of the gun control debate and asks “Can we have a conversation about this?”

The Gun Show opens September 9 at CoHo Theatre.

More about The Gun Show here

Jason Rouse

This week Susannah chats with Jason Rouse about his upcoming show at The Siren Theater. In addition to the stupendous last supper of a show for The Third Floor Sketch Comedy Troupe, which has come and gone, and what’s next!

The Lion King's Gerald Ramsey

This week Susannah chats with Gerald Ramsey who stars as Mufasa in the National Broadway Tour prouduction of Disney’sThe Lion King, opening at the Keller Auditorium August 10, 2016, part of the Broadway in Portland series.

Dmae Roberts

Dmae Roberts has done it all, and we talk about it! More information about her upcoming events that we mention is here: “What Are You? A Mixed-Race Reading & Conversation” from “The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family.”

Luan Schooler - Artists Repertory Theatre

This week Susannah chats with Luan Schooler of Artists Repertory Theatre about kicking off the Oregon Play Prize, a $10,000 contest for new scripts by Oregon-based playwrights.

Chantal DeGroat and Lily Burnett of The Color Of Now

A note from Susannah about this week’s podcast featuring Chantal DeGroat and Lily Burnett of The Color Of Now: Recent events have made it important that this podcast be broadcast immediately; it was slated for a few weeks in future. As I listened and edited, I lamented some of the lighthearted nature of it. We recorded last week before the tragic events had unfolded. Chantal DeGroat said “We can do better” during our podcast taping before I heard our president say it on Thursday, July 7th, in response to tragic events. What can we do? We can start by listening to voices like Chantal DeGroat and Lily Burnett of The Color Of Now. From there, we can make every effort to (paraphrasing Gandhi and MLK) “be the change.”

Susannah recently performed some pieces from Sweeney Todd

This is usually where you’d find our weekly Adventures in Artslandia podcast from Susannah Mars, but right now Susannah’s off on an adventure of her own! She’s busy playing Mrs. Lovett in Portland Opera’s Sweeney Todd, which opened last weekend and continues into this one. In this hilarious and (semi) sympathetic role, she cops a Cockney accent, sings several rollicking songs, and makes a failed attempt to woo Sweeney before meeting an untimely and violent end! Go see her! And meanwhile, don’t fret: we still have a broadcast for your eager ears! And it even still stars Susannah! Listen to Susannah and fellow cast mates in a special Sweeney Todd segment she recorded with Portland’s All Classical.