JAW: A Playwrights Festival is Portland Center Stage’s developmental festival of new work for the stage. For two crazy weeks, from July 8-20, JAW: A Playwrights Festival takes over the Armory, inside and out. It’s our tenth anniversary, and we’re pulling out all the stops to celebrate. Our You Are There presentations will spill into the streets. The popular Theater Fair will take on a fresh twist. Promising Playwrights will offer new works created especially for the Festival. Our anniversary kick-off event will draw on playwrights from the full span of JAW’s ten fabulous years to create a Commission! Commission! event open to all for the first time.