Listed below are upcoming shows, staged readings, classes, community partnership events, and more.
All times Pacific unless otherwise noted.
JAW Play Reading: Good Person By Brett Robinson
Patrica! (A clown, a monster, and definitively good person) drags you down into her own hole of her own making to ask why we are good. Part seminar and part existential crisis. It’s buffoon, it’s funny, it’s dread. This one person show crafted in drag bars and cabaret spaces invites you to question what makes a person good, and if you happen to be one of those so-called "Good People."
JAW: MREENS
Enjoy the cool, summertime vibes at JAW with a performance by Portland-based multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer MREENS as she shares her unique versions of cover songs, blended with original songs for the JAW weekend crowds.
JAW Play Reading: Fires, Ohio By Beth Hyland
As a climate crisis threatens a small Ohio college town, the mopey grown children and second wife of a sort-of-mediocre professor must choose: stay and smolder, or leave and burn. When a visiting scholar comes to stay for a few days, love and hatred flare and jeopardize the family’s fragile equilibrium. Chekhovian and totally modern, Fires, Ohio brings an old story into our painfully funny present.
PLAY! Monster Approaches to Text with Brett Robinson JAW Community Artist Lab
This performance workshop will use play and the concept of monsters and nonsocial sounds and language to explore the emotional life of text.
JAW: Pre-show Music: Gus Jeffers
Join us for a JAW weekend pre-show music performance featuring 14-year-old vocalist Gus Jeffers sharing a mix of cover songs and original tracks, blending pop and R&B genres.
JAW Play Reading: Teen Playwrights Showcase
Don’t miss this chance to experience some of the newest voices in theater! Four young playwrights have been commissioned by PCS to write short scripts for JAW. This showcase will feature the dynamic short scripts they’ve developed, performed by professional actors.
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