Jan 22 at 12:30 pm: The Well Arts Institute presents Everything New Again is Old, a series of staged readings from work in progress developed with Elders from Friendly House, Emerson House, Terwilliger Plaza and Summerplace.

Jan 23 at 12:30 pm: PenPlay presents Sandra de Helen’s new work in progress, The Godmother, about Tomboy McCorkle, cross-dressing lesbian crime boss of the roaring '20s.

Jan 24 at 12:30 pm: Portland Gallery Playwright’s Group presents work in progress from two member playwrights: Aleks Merillo’s Little Moscow, and evocative story of acceptance and duty told by an elderly Russian tailor to a client preparing for an important dinner; Naomi Fast’s look at a young woman’s harrowing, yet exhilarating, airplane trip in a segment of her longer work, Into the Savannah.

Jan 25 at 12:30 pm: Portland Actors Conservatory hosts Making Makers: Training the Next Generation of Theatre Artists, a panel presentation discussing how best to prepare the next generation of playwrights and performers to create compelling new work

Jan 26 at 12:30 pm: The Well Arts Institute presents Everything New Again is Old, a series of staged readings from work in progress developed with Elders from Friendly House, Emerson House, Terwilliger Plaza and Summerplace.

Jan 27 at 12:30 pm: Sharon Sassone hosts a reading of her new work in progress Fort Vancouver, about an unhappy young soldier named Ulysses S. Grant who crosses paths with a determined missionary named Sister Joseph and a motley crew of characters at Fort Vancouver. Full length version can be seen at Haven- see Staged Readings for details.

Jan 28 at 12:30 pm:  dirtybombpdx presents a staged reading of DIRTY BOMB by Rob Newton. At the edge of ground zero, a Mother, daughter, brother and lover find each other and find it’s not so easy letting go. DIRTY BOMB, the gift that keeps on giving. (see the fully staged World Premiere at Conduit, info at dirtybombpdx.com)

Jan 29 12:30 pm Portland Gallery Playwright’s Group presents a variety of short plays from Amy Doherty, Sven Bonnichsen and Marguerite Scott. Sven gives us two offerings:  The Buried Piano and The Astronaut and the Nude.  In the first, a girl is reunited with a family friend while a massive party for her father’s election bid booms in the distance and a recently unearthed, antique piano rests near their feet.  The second play is a metaphysical exploration of marriage, nakedness and the cosmos. In Amy Doherty’s A Touch of Cleveland, we (along with the cardboard cutouts that look on) are party to a Laundromat encounter between two people, each awkward in their own way.  Marguerite Scott’s The Ugly Duckling demonstrates the opportunities that come (and go) with plastic surgery.

Jan 30 at 12:30 pm. Portland Gallery Playwright’s Group presents 3 short works from PSU professor David Holloway (Counterparts, Death Panel and The Egg) that connect abduction, death, dreams and family, including a butterfly stick-pin, an insurance company death panel and a cosmically important Egg.

Jan 31 at 12:30 pm: The Well Arts Institute presents Everything New Again is Old, a series of staged readings from work in progress developed with Elders from Friendly House, Emerson House, Terwilliger Plaza and Summerplace.