Recently the company that was hosting our web site and email service stopped serving us. Which was bad. The web site stayed up (but we couldn't change it) and the email service stopped working altogether (which means if you tried to email us, it bounced back at you). We seem to have everything back up and working again.

Hopefully no one thought we were gone for good.

Portland Center Stage's JAW Festival is underway and Portland Theatre Works is again a little part of it. Portland Theatre Works Artistic Director Andrew Golla directed a reading of Hunt Holman's play Willow Jade during the Made In Oregon series (a 3 night series of plays by Oregon playwrights). Hunt, you may remember, is a 2 time FreshWorks playwright with an untitled play in February 2006 and, most recently, with Chuck From Finance, or The Happy Penguin in February of 2008.

Come meet and greet the Portland Theatre Works crew at the Theatre Fair at JAW (12 p.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday 7/19 at PCS). We'll be one of many local theatre organizations occupying a table, so you can get a look at what's coming up this season in Portland theatre and meet some of the folks making it happen (as well as win fabulous prizes). It's also a great chance to chat with us and find out about the folks who've volunteered their time to bringing you over 30 new play events in the last 3 years alone.

Also, make sure to see the Portland Playwright's Slam which will be curated by Andrew Golla for the 3rd year in a row. It will feature a bevy of local playwrights giving you excerpts of their work, including plays which will be fully produced this coming year (a kind of "preview of coming attractions" if you will). The Slam is from 12:30-1:30 on Sunday 7/20, and like all JAW events it is free to the public.

For more info on JAW, check out http://www.pcs.org/jaw/.

We'll be picking up the FreshWorks Series in September at Profile Theatre. Please join us for this popular series of new play readings.

These readings take place at 7 p.m. on the 3rd Monday (usually) of every month at Profile Theater at Theater!Theatre! in southeast Portland (3430 SE Belmont St., Portland, OR). All of the readings are FREE and open to the public. We're very pleased to be partnering with the Profile Theatre in presenting this program.

To read more about the FreshWorks program in general, click here.

Portland Theatre Works is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to developing new work for the theatre. Our goal is to provide playwrights with the time, space, tools, and artistic support required to fully develop their plays and refine their craft.