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Coal is King by Kwik Jones
Staged Reading
1977, Kat, a widow and now single parent, is drowning in a pool of debt when she is hired at a male-dominated coal company. She is pushed to the brink of quitting, but the unwavering Kat risks her life to be a trailblazer for other women in the coal industry. | Buy tickets |
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I Want You by Kathleen Cahill
Staged Reading
A dramatic comedy about the marriage between two middle-class Americans in a small town in New Jersey between the years 2002 and 2024. MARY is African-American and BILL is Irish American. MARY is a librarian, and BILL is a lawyer in a small firm. It’s a play about what they say and what they don’t talk about. | Buy tickets |
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Proper, A Steampunk Comedy of Manners
by Angela Gyurko
Staged Reading
In this delightfully twisted Victorian romp, a brilliant widow and her partner-in-science carry out their inventing shenanigans behind closed doors - until a dashing fortune-hunter crashes their carefully ordered world. He's after her late husband's papers and thinks marriage might be his ticket to riches. Poor fellow has no idea he's just challenged the most dangerous inventor in Port Brassington to a battle of wits! | Buy tickets |
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The City and The Sea
A New Musical by Paul Lewis
A radio astronomer who spends her days decoding messages from distant stars confronts the mystery closer to home: her father's disappearance from 1940s Astoria, Oregon. When Clay is granted one day to return from death and reveal the truth of his fate on the treacherous Columbia Bar, father and daughter navigate a noir landscape of smuggled pearls and waterfront secrets, racing against time to bridge twenty-six years of silence.
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CONFABULOUS by Susan Faust
When two feuding sisters are challenged to provide round-the-clock care for their aging mother with dementia, they recruit the stoner kid who mows the lawn to help out. This comedy-drama explores the responsibilities of being a daughter, whether sibling rivalry ever ends, how to define a family when memories are ever-changing, and what if feels like to lose your mind.
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WAGMI by AR Nicholas
WE’RE ALL GONNA MAKE IT, aka WAGMI. A creeping sense of unease begins to permeate the lives of NICK and JOCELYN, a Big Science power couple, who find themselves caught in the crosshairs of the modern surveillance state. As each seeks to circumvent the traps laid, the rift between them grows; until they find a way to use technology to turn the tables on those who want them to fail. With a nod to the cryptocurrency fraud of Sam Bankman-Fried and the machinations of Big Pharma, AR Nicholas’ WAGMI will keep you guessing where your loyalties should lie. | Buy tickets |
| | Ride the Cyclone
Music, Book & Lyrics by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived! | Buy tickets |
| | The Glass Door
Adapted by Stephen Evans from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The brilliant and ruthless Hedda Gabler orchestrates her most dangerous game. Suffocating in her glass cage of privilege, her desperate bid for freedom sends cracks spiraling through her perfect world, threatening to destroy everyone in her path. This explosive psychological drama reveals what happens when a woman decides to break free—no matter the cost. | Buy tickets |
| | The Breasts of Tiresias
Music by Francis Poulenc and Lyics by Gillaume Apollinaiare
Gender norms pop like balloons in The Breasts of Tiresias, Poulenc and Appollinaire's bawdy surrealist romp. Frustrated with the life of a housewife, Tiresias sheds her breasts and becomes the male General Tirésias. As she leads a new life fighting distant wars on foreign battlefields, her stay-at-home husband discovers a way to make babies on his own - but not just one: 40,049 of them. This delightfully sugar-coated pill coats the sublime in the ridiculous. | Buy tickets |
| | Room of Forgotten Souls
an original, ensemble-devised performance
In 2004, a tour group discovered a locked room in the Oregon State Hospital crematorium, filled with thousands of decaying copper canisters holding the remains of over 4,000 former patients. Abandoned or forgotten, these individuals sparked a movement to honor the lost. Inspired by this haunting discovery, the Willamette University Theatre ensemble will create Room of Forgotten Souls—an original, ensemble-devised performance exploring memory, loss, mental health, and recognition. | Buy tickets |