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CLOSE IN ★ FAR OUT, a citywide performance festival presented by PETE’s Institute for Contemporary Performance, will take place across Portland.

Krista Wigle of The Phantom of the Opera national tour will lead a vocal workshop for students at Arts + Communication Magnet Academy in Beaverton, Oregon.

Confession time: I saw the original production of FAT HAM on Broadway, and I thought “meh.

Fertile Ground 2026 wrapped up last weekend, and on the whole, it was fantastic.

From New York to Portland: David Obele, a Retired Music Contractor, Is Lighting a Fire for Portland Area Theatre Alliance’s Valentine Fund with Marsha Norman's 'night Mother https://www.

Stages Performing Arts Academy will present CATCH ME WHEN I FALL, an original social justice docudrama drawn from 50 interviews with Washington County residents facing economic hardship, at Masonic Hall in Hillsboro.

Metropolitan Performing Arts will present FOOTLOOSE at Vancouver's Magenta Theater, featuring a cast of 31 actors from the Vancouver and Portland areas, including teens from MPA's Mainstage performance program.

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.

Cameron Mackintosh and LW Entertainment announced full casting for the new North American Tour of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, playing Seattle's Paramount Theatre, led by Isaiah Bailey in the title role.

100 Lives Repertory announced its upcoming production of THE PAVILION by Craig Wright, set at a 20-year high school reunion and exploring love, regret, and second chances at Spotlight Theatre in Portland, OR.

The Broadway touring production of CLUE, based on the 1985 Paramount Pictures film and the classic Hasbro board game, will present four performances at The Buddy Holly Hall in Lubbock as part of the 25-26 Broadway series.

Kiana Younker, a citizen of the Coquille Indian Tribe and descendant of Miluk Coos and Upper Coquille peoples, has been named Native Performing Arts Network's first Artistic Director Fellow, taking on leadership roles across the season.

Fuse Theatre Ensemble and The Outwright Theatre Festival announced a production of FREUD ON COCAINE, written by Howard Skora.

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Jekyll in Chains, an original grunge musical set in 1990s Seattle, at the Samaritan Odd Fellows Lodge in Milwaukie, OR, featuring music inspired by Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains.

Broadway at The Buddy Holly Hall announced its upcoming season, featuring four Lubbock premieres: WAITRESS, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE BODYGUARD, and KINKY BOOTS.

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!

The Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance will return to Portland this summer.

Beatles tribute act Abbey Road will present THE NUMBER ONES…AND MORE at Portland's Newmark Theatre, performing chart-topping hits with period costumes, vintage instruments, and Liverpudlian harmonies.

Portland Queer Arts Foundation has named Daniel Switzer as Artistic Director of the 2026 Portland Queer Arts Spectacular.

This year’s Fertile Ground Festival started last Friday.

You have a limited time to see this show, and you don’t want to miss it.

Stefan Feuerherdt brings a fresh and thoughtful voice to a timeless story, weaving together questions of morality, mortality, and the weight of others' expectations into something deeply human and moving in TETHERED, a Fertile Ground new work.

JUSTICE, a solo play by Tiffany Esteb, will present at Chapel Theatre in Milwaukie, OR on April 17 and April 19 as part of Fertile Ground 2026's PDX Playwrights Festival Within the Festival.

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Suzie Toot is hitting the road this summer with an all-new solo tour.