Blackbird David Harrower
PORTLAND PREMIERE

Una arrives at Ray’s office with a long-held grievance. Decades before, when she was 12, he seduced her into a relationship that radically changed both their lives. This gripping, life-altering and utterly unexpected encounter is hailed as “an astonishing tale of misplaced love” and “a new take on Lolita”. Last season’s Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in London.

MORRISON ST. THEATER SEPTEMBER 3 – OCTOBER 12

The Seafarer Conor McPherson
WEST COAST PREMIERE

Award-winning Irish playwright McPherson says, “There’s a myth in County Wicklow about the Hellfire Club. It’s just a ruin now…they were playing poker one night when a stranger knocked and came in. Someone drops a card, and when he bends down to pick it up, he notices the stranger’s cloven foot.” A down- for - the - count drama about a spellbinding quartet blokes who thought they had seen and heard it all until one fateful Christmas eve they play cards with the stranger.

MORRISON ST. THEATER JANUARY 6 — FEBRUARY 15

Distracted Lisa Loomer
PORTLAND PREMIERE

Is it attention deficit disorder? Over-stimulation? Or overwhelmed, overcommitted, endlessly multi-tasking parents struggling to keep up with life. Jesse is eight and easily distracted—but so are his mom, his dad, his neighbors, teachers and…well, pretty much everybody. So what’s a parent to do? With offbeat humor and searing honesty, Distracted zeros in on the frenetic, fractured life that’s become the hallmark of our Information Age.

MORRISON ST. THEATER APRIL 14 — MAY 24

Eurydice Sarah Ruhl
OREGON PREMIERE

From heaven to the underworld and back again, Orpheus descends to rescue the iridescent Eurydice. In this new version of the ageless tale – she is torn between a reunion with her dead father and the passion she shares with her beloved. First time opportunity to see Pulitzer Prize winner Ruhl’s extraordinary post-modern poem-for-the-stage, retelling the classic Greek myth from the heroine’s point of view. The New York Times said, “A magical play with gripping emotional potency...a love letter to the world! Rhapsodically beautiful”.

ALDER ST. THEATER SEPTEMBER 16 — OCTOBER 26

String of Pearls Michele Lowe
WEST COAST PREMIERE

On the eve of her granddaughter’s wedding, Beth asks to see the pearls she gave her daughter long, long ago. Episodic and touching, the tales of this missing pearl necklace tie together deeply affecting stories in the decades between the distant past and now. With four top-of-their game actresses playing over 20 characters – a quick-witted, sharply observed kaleidoscope of the undeniably feminine experience.

ALDER ST. THEATER JANUARY 27 — MARCH 8

Three Sisters Anton Chekhov
commissioned adaptation
by Tracy Letts
WORLD PREMIERE

First performed in 1901, the Russian masterpiece is being adapted in this world premiere at Artists Rep by America’s leading playwright Tracy Letts, who surveys the decay of the privileged class. Three dissatisfied, frustrated, intensely Chekhovian sisters desperately long for their wondrous past, remembered now only as a story of perfection. Steppenwolf member Letts’ turbo-charged tragicomedy August: Osage County in currently the toast of Broadway.

ALDER ST. THEATER MAY 5 — JUNE 14

Holidazed Marc Acito
& C.S. Whitcomb
WORLD PREMIERE

A just-like-us surburban couple adopts a homeless, goth, pagan, teenaged girl – tattoos, piercings and all. She hates holidays - except Halloween, of course – so all their seasonal merriment begins in October. A comedic Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas take on It’s A Wonderful Life by first time playwright Acito, Oregon-based author of the best-selling novel How I Paid For College.

ALDER ST. THEATER NOVEMBER 18 — DECEMBER 28