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Regional News Portland Center Stage and Victory Gardens Announce Seasons The lineups include regional productions of Fun Home, Fade, And So We Walked, and Lady Day at Emerson鈥檚 Bar and Grill.

By Olivia Clement

March 08, 2017

Portland Center Stage and Chicago鈥檚 Victory Gardens Theater are the latest regional theatres to announce their 2017鈥�18 seasons. Both venues are set to kick off their seasons in the fall with productions of Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron鈥檚 musical Fun Home.

Gary Griffin will helm the Tony-winning musical in Chicago, with performances slated for September 19鈥揘ovember 12. Fun Home will be followed by Tanya Saracho鈥檚 play about the TV industry, Fade, which recently ran Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

The Victory Gardens season will continue in 2018 with a production of Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate, a coming-of-age story about race, class, and motherhood by Antoinette Nwandu, slated for February 9鈥揗arch 11, 2018.

Also included in the lineup: Boo Killebrew鈥檚 Doing It, about a former inmate named Lettie attempting to re-enter society, directed by artistic director Chay Yew (April 6鈥揗ay 6, 2018), and Ya毛l Farber鈥檚 Mies Julie, adapted from August Strindberg鈥檚 Miss Julie and set in post-apartheid South Africa (May 25鈥揓une 23, 2018).

In Oregon, artistic director Chris Coleman is set to direct Portland Center Stage鈥檚 production of Fun Home, with performances scheduled for September 16鈥揙ctober 22. The fall lineup also includes Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe鈥檚 Every Brilliant Thing (September 23鈥揘ovember 25) and Luis Alfaro鈥檚 retelling of Medea, titled Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (November 4鈥�26).

PCS will celebrate the holiday season with Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort鈥檚 The Second City鈥檚 A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens, and An Evening of Holiday Story and Song, featuring Truman Capote鈥檚 A Christmas Memory and a concert of holiday songs curated by Merideth Kaye Clark and Brandon Woolley.

The theatre will kick off the new year with Chris Coleman鈥檚 sequel, Astoria: Part 2 (January 20鈥揊ebruary 18, 2018), followed by Adam Szymkowicz鈥檚 Kodachrome (February 3鈥揗arch 18, 2018) and Andrew Hinderaker鈥檚 The Magic Play (March 3鈥揂pril 1, 2018), about a magician trying to get through a live show just hours after his partner has left him.

In the spring, DeLanna Studi will perform her solo show, And So We Walked, about being a Cherokee woman (March 31鈥揗ay 13, 2018). The season will wrap up with George Bernard Shaw鈥檚 Major Barbara (April 14鈥揗ay 13, 2018), followed by Lanie Robertson鈥檚 Billie Holiday musical, Lady Day at Emerson鈥檚 Bar and Grill (May 26鈥揓uly 1, 2018).

For more information on the PCS lineup, visit For more information on the Victory Gardens season, visit