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Portland Opera begins the new year with Enchanted Woods: Shakespeare & Song, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s first folio. Learn more aboutt he performance here!

This holiday season, Portland Center Stage brings a twist on the classic vampire story that’s perfect for the dark, spooky nights of winter in Portland, Oregon.

Portland Center Stage will kick off their 2023-24 season with a spectacular high-energy musical that's all about community: directed by Isaac Lamb, HAIR begins preview performances on September 30, opens on October 6, and runs through November 5 on the mainstage.

Portland Center Stage will present William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, beginning performances on June 3.

Broadway Rose Theatre Company has begun its 2023 Season of Fresh Possibilities with Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook, showcasing a treasure trove of hit songs and hidden gems by composer Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell) updated with new lyrics.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Broadway Rose Theatre Company is continuing its 2022 Season of Live Musicals with The Evolution of Mann, based on the novel 'Nine Wives' by Dan Elish. Preview performance is Thursday, September 22, with opening night on Friday, September 23, and performances continuing through October 16.

Live performances are returning to Broadway Rose with Analog and Vinyl, a musical comedy about a record store owner, his not-so-secret admirer, and a mysterious stranger with a devilish offer. Performances begin on Thursday, July 8 and continue through August 1. Performances are held at The Broadway Rose New Stage located at 12850 SW Grant Avenue in Tigard. 

Live performances are returning to Broadway Rose with Analog and Vinyl, a musical comedy about a record store owner, his not-so-secret admirer, and a mysterious stranger with a devilish offer. Performances begin on Thursday, July 8 and continue through July 18.

Broadway Rose Theatre Company has announced that it will mount the musical The Last Five Years, and make it available for streaming April 23 - May 16.

Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! 

Nominees have been announced for the 13th Annual Portland Area Musical Theatre Awards. The ceremony will take place on Youtube, June 14 at 7pm.

Portland Opera continues the 2019/20 season with the premiere of a new production entitled An American Quartet: Four One-Act Operas. Each of these pieces, written by American composers, will be presented in the intimate black box theatre at Portland Opera's Hampton Opera Center.

E.M. Lewis's MAGELLANICA, a world premiere now playing at Artists Repertory Theatre, is the theatrical equivalent of a theory of everything. This epic play is about eight people wintering over at the South Pole Research Station in 1986.

Artists Rep presents the World Premiere of Magellanica, by E.M. Lewis, directed by Damaso Rodriguez from January 20 through February 18 on the theatre's Morrison Stage. Magellanica is a five-part epic play written by Oregon playwright E.M. Lewis. This production is made possible through major funding from the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) Creative Heights Initiative and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Magellanica is a part of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Works.

For its 35th anniversary as Portland's premiere mid-size regional theatre company, Artists Repertory Theatre will offer seven gripping, contemporary plays for their mainstage series.  Among these plays are Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winners, the second  Table|Room|Stage commission, The Thanksgiving Play, by Larissa FastHorse, and a limited run of the World Premiere of the epic theatrical event Magellanica, by Portland playwright E.M. Lewis. Artists Rep's FRONTIER SERIES returns for a second season with internationally acclaimed artists from New York, Seattle and Iran.

Artists Repertory Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and Ithaca College, partner with Islamabad's Theatre Wallay to present On Common Ground for Oregon audiences June 26 to July 4 at both venues.