Actor and playwright Danna Schaeffer is a small, perky woman whose energy seems to want to burst out of her in laughter and excitement. She has another side as well. Schaeffer and her husband Benson are members of The Grief Club. In 1989, their only child Rebecca, an up-and-coming Hollywood actress was murdered on her […]
Danna Schaeffer, drama, Fertile Ground Festival 2017, grief, Julie Akers, mental illness, murdered children, New Expressive Works, Rebecca Schaeffer, stalking, You In MidairEleven days. More than 45 producers. Forty-four Portland-area venues. Portland, are you ready for the 9th annual Fertile Ground Festival 2017, a city-wide festival of theatrical works? Running January 19-29, Fertile Ground features new projects in theatre, dance, animation, clowns, circus, music, and multidisciplinary arts–more than 100 creations in all. They will be happening throughout the […]
Alan Alexander III, Artists Repertory Theatre, Artslandia, Badge of Honor, Beverly Frentress, Bunny, Clowns Without Borders, Damaris Webb, Dust on My Shoes, Fertile Ground Festival 2017, Free Box, Homeless The Musical, I Am An Actress, Jane Comer, John Ellingston puppets, Keziah Peterson, Lakewood Theatre Company, Left Hook, Literary Theory, Mary Rose, Men Run Amok, Michael O'Neill, Nathaniel Holder, Nicole Lane, Northwest Children's Theatre, Petra Delarocha, Portland Area Theatre Alliance, prismagic, Rich Rubin, Robert Amico, Sarah Shively, Shakespeare's Fools, Sherry Lane, Steve Perkins, Stories from Maclaren Correction Facility, Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan, The Baby Project, The Tail of Sleeping Beauty with Puppets, Tim Blough, word.voice, Young Playwrights Festival, youth at the edge