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In response to the controversial Patriot Act of 2001, which allowed for wiretapping, surveillance, and other measures ostensibly to protect the United States against terrorism, five women wrote adaptations of Sophocles' ANTIGONE, a play about power, resistance, and what happens when we're denied tho
Hip Hop Rap the Bard.
What would you do if the wife who left you 20 years ago in the middle of the night, and who you've loved and and hated ever since, showed up at your door?
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM is the musical equivalent of the perfect summer beach read -- funny, not too demanding, and everything works right out in the end.
Portland has a new theatre company! Public Citizen Theatre is the mostly crowdfunded passion project of Amanda Mehl and Aaron Filyaw.
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR had its heyday before I was born.
Broadway Rose could perhaps not have picked a more fitting time to bring us Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim's WEST SIDE STORY.
When AMERICAN IDIOT premiered on Broadway in 2010, I must admit I was skeptical.
If you've been wondering whether you should see THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Artists Rep, the answer is yes.
As soon as you walk into the theatre at Portland Center Stage, you'll start to feel overheated and a little claustrophobic.
You know those shows that won't quite let you go? Heidi Schreck's GRAND CONCOURSE, now playing at Artists Repertory Theatre, is one of them.
If you were to google 'information about love,' randomly click on 57 of the results, and then skim each page starting in the middle, you'd experience the digital equivalent of watching Caryl Churchill's LOVE AND INFORMATION, currently playing at Theatre Vertigo.
Are we the products of our cultural history? Or can we create ourselves from scratch as something new?
Chalk up another winner for Portland Center Stage this season -- THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE is one you don't want to miss! Mona Golabek's one-woman show about her own mother's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria on the Kindertransport is part-concert, part-storytelling, and all magic.
In the middle of Samuel D.
You remember Heathers, right? The 1988 cult classic movie starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater that gave the high school lexicon such classics as 'What's your damage?' 'That's so very!' and 'F**k me gently with a chainsaw.
When Jackie Sibblies Drury wrote WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915 (yes, that's the complete title), in 2012, she couldn't have known the maelstrom that would be upon us i
In Chekov's THE SEAGULL, writer Constantin Treplev says: 'We need new forms of expression.
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At the beginning of his one-man show, EACH AND EVERY THING, when Dan Hoyle makes the mandatory 'turn off your cell phone' announcement, he jokes that by the end of the show you might want to just throw the darn thing away.
Covering up the dinner table to hide the modest meal, talking about buying a piano, insisting that her son goes to art school -- these are just a few of the things Lala does to hide her family's dire financial straits in award-winning Cuban playwright Hector Quintero's 1962 comedy CONTIGO PAN Y CEBO
Twenty or so years ago, gay Americans were second-class citizens and gay men were dying of AIDS.
In his review of MR.
Sometimes a total sausage fest can be a really good thing! Like in YOCTOTheatre's COCKTALES, an evening of storytelling and theatre all about -- you guessed it -- the penis.
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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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The Dark Stuff Twilight Theater Company (8/20-9/06) |
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You Can’t Take It With You Lakewood Theatre Company (9/11-10/18) |
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Here We Are Again Still 21ten Theate (8/28-8/30) |
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Billy Strings Matthew Knight Arena (10/06-10/06) |
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Barefoot In The Park Bag&Baggage Productions (9/03-9/20) |
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August Wilson’s King Hedley II Oregon Shakespeare Festival (7/16-10/24) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Keller Auditorium (1/26-1/31) |
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Cuthbert Amphitheater (9/19-9/19) |
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Yellow Face Oregon Shakespeare Festival (8/05-10/23) |
