Bag and Baggage Productions


News

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Press Rep & Contact : Sherry Lamoreaux

Press Releases, Etc:

7/26/10 B&B Honored with Oregon Cultural Trust Grant (pdf)
7/2/10 Outdoor Shakespeare Old Sport? It's the Cat's Pajamas!   (pdf)
5/18/10 Artistic Director Scott Palmer Honored by Beaverton Arts Commission for Leadership (pdf)
5/12/10 Bag&Baggage Presents Educating Rita
at The Venetian Theatre, Hillsboro (pdf)
4/19/10 Bag & Baggage Announces 2010/11 Season (pdf)
1/13/10 SHE LAUGHS BEST WHO LAUGHS LAST — BAG & BAGGAGE PRESENTS A WORLD PREMIER: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW AND THE WOMAN’S PRIZE, TOGETHER IN ONE NIGHT. (pdf)
11/12/09 Bag & Baggage Presents Hysterical Holiday Fun fro the Whole Family with a Rather Different Christmas Carol
11/12/09 Enjoy a Family Holiday Treat - The Hysterically Funny "A Christmas Carol" - While Supporting Camp Erin
11/11/09 Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center Selected for Bag & Baggage Productions' "Benefit Night" Program
10/21/09 Bag & Baggage Presents a Terrifying Halloween Event: The Fields of Fear at The Washington County Fairgrounds
9/9/09 Hillsboro Schools foundation Selected as Recipient of Bag&Baggage Productions' New Charity Benefit Program
9/5/09 PSA - Death of a Salesman
9/1/09 Bag&Baggage Launches 2009-2010 Season With The Greatest Play In American Theatre History: Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman
7/30/09 Bag & Baggage Announces New Children's Theatre Programming
7/20/09 Romeo & Juliet Gala Raises $10,000 for Theatre Scholarship Program
6/24/09 Bag and Baggage Productions Doubles Programming
6/16/09 Bag&Baggage Announces Another First For Hillsboro: Outdoor Summer Shakespeare!
4/30/09 Bag&Baggage Presents a Roaring 20's Inspired The Importance of Being Earnest
2/30/09 Shakespeare's Macbeth to be Performed at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse
12/16/08 It’s A Christmas Miracle! Bag&Baggage Announces An Extra Performance of The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
12/4/08 Bag&Baggage Presents a Hysterical Alternative Christmas Tale; The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
8/27/08 Bag&Baggage Productions opens Steel Magnolias at The Venetian Theatre in Hillsboro
5/20/08 Infinite Variety Opens at Kingstad Center

Articles, Reviews, Etc:

7/31/10 Review - Oregonian Theater review: Outdoor production of 'Twelfth Night' transcends time and place (online / pdf)
7/29/10 Article - Tigard News Times Cultural Coalition of Washington County awards $47,000 in grants to art groups (pdf)
7/28/10 Article - Forest Grove News Times Bard in the yard: Pacific pitcher makes debut
Sean Lindsay embraces his inner actor as he steps off the baseball mound
(online / pdf)
7/28/10 Article - Bardolatry.com Bag & Baggage’s Twelfth Night in Hillsboro
(online)
7/28/10 Article - Enzymepdx.com By Coin Toss, It's 'Twelfth Night' (online)
7/27/10 - Article - Hillsboro Argus Twelfth Night Bag&Baggage opens outdoor Shakespearean play (online / pdf)
7/20/10 - Article - Oregon Live Outdoor Shakespeare, old sport? It's the Cat's Pajamas! (online / pdf)
7/13/10 - OAC Press Release Bag & Baggage awarded our first ever Oregon Arts Commission Operational Grant for $4000. (pdf)
6/10/10 - Pick - Willamette Week Willamette Week "Picks" Educating Rita (pdf / online)
6/7/10 - Review - Oregonian Educating Rita Focuses Sharply On Function of Education (pdf / online)
6/3/10 Article - Forest Grove News Times Edu-taining Rita. Hillsboro theatre group wraps second season in June (pdf)
6/2/10 Article - Oregonian ‘Educating Rita’ teaches us (pdf)
6/2/10 Article - Hillsboro Argus Bag & Baggage presents ' Educating Rita' (online)
5/25/10 Article by Sherry Lamoreaux Educating Rita Opens at The Venetian Theatre. Willy Russell’s award-winning play—funny but painfully honest—explores how education changes us and the things we desire (pdf)
5/13/10 Beaverton Press Release Arts Leadership Award: Scott Palmer, Artistic Director, Bag and Baggage Productions. Click to read full press release.
4/21/10 Article - Oregonian Hillsboro council approves downtown urban renewal plan (online / pdf)
4/21/10 Forest Grove News Times Article ‘The Scottish Play’ coming to Hillsboro. Venetian will host new takes on Macbeth, Tennessee Williams this fall (pdf)
3/29/10 Oregon Article Scott Palmer of Bag & Baggage Productions plays a role in downtown Hillsboro revival (online / pdf)
3/26/10 The Scene Article Class Acts: ben crop ’08, mba’09; kiri dyken ’07; drew foster ’07; karen johnson ’07; lesli okorn ’07 and audra petrie veber ’06 (online / pdf)
3/12/10 Forest Grove News Times Article Hollywood, meet Hillsboro - Classic movie style is brought to life at the Venetian for what promoters hope will become an annual tradition of Oscar on Main Street (online / pdf)
2/25/10 Oregon Live Video Oregonian Theater critic Marty Hughley on Portland's competing stage interpretations of Shakespeare's classic. Watch Video
2/15/10 Just Out Article "Bag N Baggage Piteth Shakespeare 'gainst Fletcher" (online)
2/14/10 Oregonian / Oregonlive.com
(REVIEW)
'Taming of the Shrew' and 'A Woman's Prize'. Oregonian (online article)

2/11/10
Forest Grove News Times Article

"Take That, Shakespeare" (pdf download / online)
2/9/10 Hillsboro Argus Article "Bag&Baggage presents blended 'Taming of the Shrew' & 'A Woman's Prize'" (pdf download / online article )
12/17/09 Forest Grove News-Times Article It's beginning to look alot like ... Entertainment (pdf download / online article )
12/14/09 Willamette Week PICK WWeek Picks A Christmas Carol as one of a few productions recommended in the area.
12/14/09 Oregonian / Oregonlive.com
(REVIEW)
Review - 'A Christmas Carol' in Hillsboro (pdf download / online article)
12/11/09 Hillsboro Argus Article Bag & Baggage offers gift for Camp Erin's children (pdf download)
12/10/09 Beaverton Valley Times Article 'A Christmas Carol' will benefit dental program (pdf download)
12/8/09 Hillsboro Argus Article Bag & Baggage offers 'A Christmas Carol' (pdf download / online article)
12/4/09 JustOut Article A Very Meta Christmas: Bag & Baggage Brings Dickens Himself Onstage for A Christmas Carol (jpg download / online article)
11/23/09 Hillsboro Argus Article Streets of Tanasbourne to host holiday party, tree lighting event (pdf version)
10/29/09 Gazette Times Article Fields of Fear spooks Washington County Fair Complex (online article)
10/29/09 Tigard Times Article Tigard Times "A Halloween Evetns Roundup" (online article)
10/29/09 Oregon Live Article Oregon Live "No lack of Halloween fun at these events" (online article)
10/29/09 Portland Mercury Article Portland Mercury "Zombies, Zombies, and more Zombies" (online article)
10/28/09 Willamette Week Article Willamette Week "Fear Factories" (online article)
10/20/09 KATU Article KATU "You can face your fear of getting chased by zombies now" (online article)
10/9/09 About.com Article About.com Travel Blog "Halloween Fun in Hillsboro: The Fields of Fear" (online article)
10/14/09 Oregonian Article Article on Fields of Fear (online article - pdf version)

10/2/09 Oregonian / Oregonlive.com
(REVIEW)

Review: Strength of 'Death of a Salesman' lies in acting talent
(online article - pdf version)
9/24/09 Gazette Times
Marion Rossi to star as Willy Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' (online article - pdf version)
9/7/09 YouTube Video interview with some of the creators of our production of Death of a Salesman.
8/25/09 Hillsboro Argus Remodeling raises spirits at Venetian. Unexplained events bring paranormal investigators to Main Street Theatre (online article - pdf version)
8/5/09
Forest Grove News Times
‘Stellaluna’ flies at Hillsboro’s Venetian Theatre this weekend (online article - pdf version)

7/20/09
Oregonian
(REVIEW)

Review: A feisty 'Romeo and Juliet' at Hillsboro's Tom Hughes Civic Center - (online article - pdf version)
7/16/09 Oregonian WA County An Elizabethan Fair in Hillsboro - (online article - pdf version)
7/15/09
Forest Grove News Times
Hillsboro Native Brings the Bard to Town - (online article - pdf version)
7/14/09
Argus Newspaper
Bag&Baggage stages an adaptation of the tragedy outdoors at the Hughes Civic Center Plaza in Hillsboro - (online Article - pdf version)
Summer 09 Oregon Quarterly
(U of O)
Shaking Up Shakespeare
1/24/09
Oregonian
(REVIEW)
Review: 'Comedy of Errors' (online article - pdf version)
1/20/09 Oregonian A Comedy of Errors Bag&Baggage Productions opens a new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic
12/19/08 Oregonian (REVIEW) Holiday show review: 'Reindeer Monologues' spotlight stereotypes with humor
9/10/08 Forest Grove News Times ‘Steel Magnolias’ flowers in Hillsboro
5/28/08 The Oregonian Infinite Variety' fetes Bard's female roles
5/18/08 The Oregonian For Hillsboro, he play's the thing

Summer 07
YouTube Video

Video interview with Scott Palmer on the challenges of producing outdoor Shakespeare
4/12/07 Gazette Times A Rose by any other name