Calling Portland Playwrights–Portland Civic Theatre Guild New Play Award

The Drammys are happy to help publicize our parent organization’s call for new works. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild works year-round to serve and support the Portland theater community. Please read on below for their submission announcement for new plays for next year’s Fertile Ground Festival–the deadline for submissions is August 1st. Portland Area Playwrights! Do […]

Guild Awards – A Quick Reminder

Hello friends, The award application deadlines for the Portland Civic Theatre Guild awards are fast approaching. In fact, the application deadline for the Mary Brand Award is March 11th (see below for more information), while two other awards have application deadlines of April 15th. We encourage interested theaters and artists to apply, and then attend the 2016 […]

2016 Portland Civic Theatre Guild Award Applications

Hello friends, As you all know, the Portland Civic Theatre Guild is the “parent company” of the Drammy Awards. So each year we like to help them promote their annual award applications period. The awards will be presented at the 2016 Drammy Ceremony in the Newmark Theatre in June. We encourage interested theaters and artists to apply as soon as […]

Drammy Awards LOVES PCTG and Fertile Ground: Submit your NEW PLAYS NOW!

As always, we Busy Bees working away in our (theatrical) honey-filled hive at Drammy Towers can ALWAYS spare a minute to support our Queen Bee Mother Figure, Portland Civic Theatre Guild, as well as to foster the Blossoming Buds of new works that spring up and flower for our dramatic delight each year from Fertile […]

Drammy Awards thanks all our sponsors, including our NEW sponsor, Chown Hardware

We are thrilled and deeply grateful to all who help us put on the Drammy Awards celebration every year, and would like to take a moment to acknowledge them all, and to thank our brand new sponsor, Chown Hardware, for supporting us this year (with a promise for some years to come). Thank you, […]

Drammy Awards say Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! The PCTG Awards are here!

Dear Theatre Peeps! As you all know, the Portland Civic Theatre Guild is the “parent company” of the Drammy Awards. So we like, each year, to inform our email listers (they hear first, so join them!) as well as our followers here on our newsfeed, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms such as pdxbackstage, as soon as […]

Drammy Awards: We are back!

Yes! We are back!! Though Portland’s excellent, year-round theatre scene means that some would argue that we have never left. Indeed, we have spent the summer months scuttling from show to show, indoors, outdoors, under arches proscenium and arboreal, in parks and parterres, lit by sun, moon, stars, candles, laser beam, or electric light. […]

A Drammy reminder to Playwrights!

Playwrights! We are heading into the holiday weekend, so you have time on your hands, right? Right! So, you know, WRITE, already, you wrights, while others play! Make fireworks of your OWN! You know you want to! What is more, our mother-organization, Portland Civic Theatre Guild, wants to HELP you! Here’s what she says: “Do you […]

Happy Mothers’ Day to everyone from The Drammys (and to OUR mothers too!)

Happy Mothers’ Day, everyone! And to our Mothers too! Thank you to our birth mother Willamette Week (when we were the Willies), who gave life to us in 1979, and passed along to us our feisty and sometimes contentious spirit! We thank you for making Portland’s Award Show just that […]

PCTG Mary Brand Award will be announced at the Drammys on June 9: Deadline March 14! Apply now!

photo by Win Goodbody: portlandtheatrescene.com The Mary Brand Award is still available! The Portland Civic Theatre Guild is waiting to hear from you! Winner will be announced at this year’s Drammy Awards Celebration on Monday, June 9, 2014. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild invites any theatre company with a youth education program to apply for […]