Krista Garver

2 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Krista Garver

Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Fertile Ground 2025 is in full swing! This annual festival of new works is my favorite part of the Portland theatre calendar. As in years past, I’ll be posting short reviews of everything I’ve seen, which, so far (and not by design) have been mostly one-person shows.

2 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Krista Garver

Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. From the moment the curtain goes up at the Keller Auditorium, LIFE OF PI transports you into a world of creativity and imagination.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Krista Garver

This year’s Fertile Ground Festival of New Works kicks off on April 4! With two weeks of programming, and 64 shows in venues across the city, the 2025 lineup is the most ambitious yet. If you’ve read any of my coverage in the past, you know that this is my favorite time of year in Portland theatre. This festival is unique in that it provides the opportunity to see shows in various stages of development. Get all of the details and tickets here. Here are 10 shows on my must-see list.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Krista Garver

Loy A. Webb's THE LIGHT, directed by Chip Miller at Portland Center Stage, masterfully weaves personal intimacy with broader social commentary. In just 75 taut minutes, this play starts out as sort of a rom-com, takes a deep dive into complex social and emotional territories, and provides a model for forgiveness, hope, and reconciliation. It is also some of the best acting I’ve seen on any stage in quite a long time.

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Krista Garver

If I could pick one show that I think people need to see right now, it’s Jane Wagner’s masterpiece THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE. Not because it explores any current hot button issues (which thankfully it doesn’t), but because it’s about human interconnection and how we often find it in the most unexpected places – it’s a welcome and necessary reminder of our shared experience, which feels essential in today’s fractured world.