Adventures in Artslandia With Susannah Mars

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!

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.

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!

Join Artslandia Editor-In-Chief Misty Tompoles at Hotel DeLuxe for the first of many Tea-time podcasts with Susannah Mars. 

We mention the spot where we did a team building exercise, and couldn’t recall the name? It was Labyrinth in Portland.

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

Committed to bringing the best Portland-based, regional, national, and international dance companies to Portland, and fostering the growth of dance in the region, Paul King and Walter Jaffe are artistic forces of nature! Hear what’s coming up for White Bird, and get inspired about what art can do!

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!

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 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.”

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.