Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at Broadway Rose
A show like this lives or dies by the musical performances, and Broadway Rose's production delivers on its promise a hundred times over, especially Hunter Semrau as Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Keller Auditorium
The circus has rolled into town! The national tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, based on Sara Gruen’s 2006 best-selling novel, has pitched its big top in the Keller Auditorium, arriving with all of the promised spectacle.
Review: BAREFOOT IN THE PARK at Bag&Baggage Productions
Bag & Baggage Productions' performance of Neil Simon's classic comedy, Barefoot in the Park, is an absolute delight with top-notch local talent, and a beautifully staged American classic.
Review: DISNEY'S NEWSIES at Broadway Rose Theater Company
NEWSIES is a big, joyful, high-energy dance spectacular at the theatre with a message about how to successfully stand up to corporate greed.
Review: THE ONE at The Boiler Room
Andrea Parson's solo show turns a very personal search for love into a funny, engaging, and highly relatable journey, whether or not you’ve ever stood at the altar of your own expectations about finding the one.
Review: THE COVER OF LIFE at Mask & Mirror
Three young women in Louisiana in 1943 whose lives are upended when a Life magazine reporter arrives to tell their story and is changed by it herself.
Review: LOBOTOMOMMY at CoHo Theatre
Part interactive, part clowning, part not-so-distant dystopian future imagining, Julia Bray’s new solo show LOBOTOMOMMY, performed as part of the 2026 CoHo Residency Program, is dark comedy at its sharpest.
Review: TELEPHONE at Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter, this production by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) tackles the slippery uncertainty of how much gets lost, or invented, in transmission.
Review: STORM LARGE MAKES IT HOME at Portland Center Stage
Storm Large is back, and her new cabaret memoir explores what makes a home.
Review: THE ROOMMATE at Profile Theatre
Profile Theatre's THE ROOMMATE is a dark comedy that surprises, moves, and lingers, with knockout performances by Gail Dartez and Eleanor O'Brien.
Review: ARBUS & WEST at Triangle Productions
Performances that draw you in from the first exchange and hold you, off-balance, until the lights go down.
Review: MAMMA MIA! at Keller Auditorium
A jukebox musical based on the music of ABBA, MAMMA MIA! knows exactly what it is and makes absolutely no apologies for it.
Review: KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage
What did our critic think of KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage?
Review: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at Broadway Rose
With music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics by Marshall Barer, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is a comedic musical romp based on the fairy tale 'The Princess and the Pea.
Review: X at Third Rail Repertory Theatre
X is not the type of show you sit back and enjoy.
Review: THE PAVILLION at 100 Lives Repertory
Now onstage at 100 Lives Repertory, THE PAVILION is a play about time – the Narrator will tell you so at the outset.
Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at Portland Playhouse
When I saw Portland Playhouse's 2025–2026 season announced, the show I was most irrationally excited about was THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL.
Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS at The Canon Shakespeare Company
You don't often get the chance to see DOCTOR FAUSTUS on stage.
Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Keller Auditorium
Nearly 40 years after its Broadway premiere, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA continues to cast its spell.
Review: FUNNY GIRL at Lakewood Theatre
Hello Gorgeous! Lakewood Theatre brings the curtain down on its 73rd season in spectacular fashion with the heartfelt, funny, and moving musical comedy Funny Girl.
Review: FAT HAM at Portland Center Stage And Portland Playhouse
Confession time: I saw the original production of FAT HAM on Broadway, and I thought “meh.
Review: FERTILE GROUND 2026: REVIEW ROUNDUP #3
Fertile Ground 2026 wrapped up last weekend, and on the whole, it was fantastic.
Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Shaking The Tree
On my way to Shaking the Tree Theatre to see Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE, I realized I had seen more comical adaptations of the play, ranging from gently ribbing to outright farcical, than actual productions of it.
Review: FERTILE GROUND 2026 - REVIEW ROUNDUP #2
What did our critic think of FERTILE GROUND 2026 - REVIEW ROUNDUP #2 at Various?
Review: LADYBUG! LADYBUG! at Lakewood Theatre
If you love sitcoms, Hollywood nostalgia, and a good love story, Ladybug! Ladybug! is an absolute delight, and you still have a chance to catch it tonight!
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Join us for the 2026–2027 Season Portland Center Stage at The Armory (9/27-6/27) |
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Bad Seed Twilight Theater Company (10/15-11/01) |
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COMMUNION Portland Center Stage (10/10-10/11) |
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Hurricane Diane Ten Fifteen Productions (10/02-10/17) |
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LIZZIE Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre (10/16-11/08) |
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You Can’t Take It With You Lakewood Theatre Company (9/11-10/18) |
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Dover Quartet: Brahms, Pura Fé & Dvořák Agnes Flanagan Chapel (10/28-10/28) |
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Bluey’s Big Play Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (10/12-10/12) |
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Mamma Mia! BJCC Concert Hall (11/17-11/22) |
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Four Old Broads: Christmas Extravaganza Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre (HART) (12/05-12/20) |
