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PROFILE THEATRE opens the final play of the 2014 Sam Shepard Season, True West.

'There has obviously been some kind of mistake!,' says Alexander T.

Portland Ovations brings This American Life host and National Public Radio icon Ira Glass back to Merrill Auditorium on Saturday, November 8th at 8pm.

Lakewood Theatre Company presents It's A Bird .

Artists Rep will present Noel Coward's elegantly comedic classic, Blithe Spirit, this holiday season.

Portland State University College of the Arts and School of Theater + Film, in association with Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab, present Caryl Churchill's FAR AWAY, directed by Devon Allen, November 13 through November 22, 2014.

She Loves Me, the 1963 Tony Award-winning musical, with book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, opens November 7, 2014 at Lakewood Theatre Company.

Thelma and Jessie have a messy relationship, and there are a lot of questions both women have for each other.

Marsha Norman's 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning play, 'NIGHT, MOTHER was the first Broadway show written by a woman with a cast of only woman.

CoHo's production 'NIGHT, MOTHER is filled with treasures, opening tomorrow, Oct.

PROFILE THEATRE opens the final play of the 2014 Sam Shepard Season, True West.

At first we think they do not know each other - they have the strained politeness of strangers who are forced into a situation together - but gradually we see connections between them, and past arguments begin to spill out.

CoHo's production 'NIGHT, MOTHER is filled with treasures, opening Oct.

There are some dark laughs along the way, and some gross-out moments, but the action feels realistic, as if these four people were being besieged on all sides, and the stress was taking a toll on each of them in a different way.

The performances are all excellent, and they are all of a piece.

The specificity of the Cuban immigrant experience is discarded in favor of a Survivor-style fight among the passengers to see who will control the boat's destiny.

Marsha Norman's 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning play, 'NIGHT, MOTHER was the first Broadway show written by a woman with a cast of only woman.

Lakewood Theatre Company presents It's A Bird .

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 27th annual Daedalus Project fundraiser for HIV/AIDS organizations totaled $142,496.

Post5 Theatre Company presents The Last Days by Carlos Cisco, directed by Rusty Tennant, presented by Ronni Lacroute/ Willakenzie Estate and Jessica and Aaron Grimmer at The Picnic House, in partnership with KZME Portland.

Artists Rep is pleased to present the NW premiere of Exiles by famed film, theatre and television actor Carlos Lacamara.

Middletown is a frustrating play to describe because I want to tell you everything that made me love it, and yet I don't want to tell you anything about it.

There's so much plot crammed into the show, and so many songs (many of them performance pieces that have little to do with story or character), that it hurtles by too quickly for us to get to know the people we're watching.

As the mystery elements kicked in and the bodies began to pile up, I relaxed and enjoyed myself thoroughly.