The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Oregon.
Kirsten Childs’ 2016 musical, now running at Portland Playhouse, offers a new take on American folklore, featuring a new tall tale hero: Bella Patterson, “a woman of mythic proportions and heroic appeal.
APPROPRIATE is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ genre-upending take on the great American family drama.
Ronán Noone's THE SMUGGLER, now running at Corrib Theatre, tells the harrowing and sympathetic tale of an Irish immigrant’s struggle to support his family.
Lucy Kirkwood's Tony-nominated play raises a lot of uncomfortable questions about morality, mortality, and what we owe to other people.
Billed as “Fargo meets The Music Man (without the blood or the trombones),” DON’T HUG ME is a silly show about some residents of Bunyan Bay, Minnesota, whose lives get a jolt thanks to the appearance of a karaoke machine salesman.
The national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HAMILTON is once again at Keller Auditorium, and it’s just as much of a must-see as ever.
FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME is a joyous celebration of music and life and the act of creating something together.
Looking for a thrill? TITUS, Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, is now running at Portland Playhouse.
GEM OF THE OCEAN is one of the last plays August Wilson wrote, but it’s the first chronologically in his Century Cycle.
This new devised work from Shaking the Tree is exhilarating, thought-provoking, and necessary.
MAZ AND BRICKS is a tender two-hander about finding connection with unexpected people in unexpected places.
There are two big reasons to take in the national touring production of ANASTASIA, now running at Keller Auditorium: Kyla Stone (who plays the central character) and the visual spectacle.
Lauren Yee’s play, inspired in part by her father, is everything we’ve come to expect from this exceptional playwright – it’s gripping, funny, emotional, and will leave you with plenty to chew on.
THURGOOD is a riveting play about the life and career of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to sit on the US Supreme Court.
Wash your cares away! HONKY TONK LAUNDRY is a country music jukebox musical delivering 2 hours of pure delight.
GLORIA, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2015 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, speaks with eerie coincidence to two of the biggest national conversations taking place today.
THE BAND'S VISIT is a gorgeous musical about the transformative power of music.
Though THE CURIOUS INCIDENT… premiered in 2012 and is based on a book published in 2003, it’s difficult to imagine a play better suited to these weird times.
BARBECUE is laugh-out-loud funny while also shining a big bright spotlight on things we’d rather keep hidden.
The story of Afong Moy, the central character in Lloyd Suh’s THE CHINESE LADY, now running at Artists Rep, so perfectly captures the American tendency to exotify, stereotype, and disparage other cultures that I should not have been surprised to learn that it’s true.
MARTHA BAKES gets to the real story behind the mythology that George Washington freed all his slaves upon his death.
Celine Song's FAMILY is a surreal look at the messy self-perpetuating cycle of violence.
Set in during the Jacobite uprisings of 1745, LOCH LOMOND, which is currently having its world premiere at Broadway Rose, is at once a sweeping musical about desire (for independence, for glory, for love) and an intimate look at the many ties that bind people together.
CAMPFIRE STORES, a joint storytelling production from Back Fence PDX and Artists Rep, provided intimacy at a safe social distance.
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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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Drinking Habits Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre (HART) (9/12-9/27) |
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Cuthbert Amphitheater (9/19-9/19) |
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August Wilson’s King Hedley II Oregon Shakespeare Festival (7/16-10/24) |
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FOOLISH MORTALS: A Haunted Mansion Burlesque Cabaret Alberta Rose Theatre (10/02-10/04) |
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Pink Martini Britt Festival Pavilion & Gardens (9/03-9/03) |
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& Juliet Hult Center (10/06-10/11) |
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Clue Keller Auditorium (3/02-3/07) |
