Dmae Roberts talks with Bill Foster, executive director of the Northwest Film Center about the 31st Portland International Film Festival. Bill offers his best picks and highlights of the festival that runs Feb. 7-23 this year.

 SHARON KNORR ONE OF PORTLAND’S VETERAN ACTRESSES TALKS ABOUT HER NEW SHOW "WHY CAN’T I MARRY THE CUTE BEATLE?"   AND  A PREVIEW OF POET’S LI-YOUNG LEE’S WORK AS WELL AS A ROUND UP OF EVENTS AROUND TOWN. 

DMAE ROBERTS TALKS WITH LORRAINE BAHR AND KIM EUELL.

FIRST UP,  A COUPLE IN WISCONSIN WELCOME A PREGNANT GIRL NAMED TOOTIE TO THEIR HOME IN AN ENTERTAINING REVIVAL OF LEA FLODEN’S STAR OF HOPE…W DIRECTOR LORAINNE BARR  TELLS US ABOUT ABOUT BRINGING BACK THE PLAY AT SOWELU THEATRE AFTER 13 YEARS…AND IN THE LATTER PART OF THE SHOW…DMAE TALKS WITH ACCLAIMED PLAYWRIGHT KIM EUELL ABOUT HER PLAY THE DIVA DAUGHTERS DUPREE BEING PRESENTED BY PASSIN ART THEATRE,

On this special membership drive edition of Stage and Studio, Dmae Roberts talks with Actors and Activists George Takei

and Margaret Cho from the Crossing East Asian American History series which won the George Foster Peabody award in 2006.