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PDX Playwrights will present L.

What did our critic think of APPLE HUNTERS! at Artists Rep?

& JULIET will play the Broadway in Birmingham series at BJCC Concert Hall.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) continues its 2026 season with the opening of You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!, a raucous, heartfelt comedy by playwright Keiko Green.

There's a particular kind of melancholy that settles over you like a damp wool coat: heavy, familiar, not entirely unpleasant, often surprisingly funny.

Portland Playhouse will present THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL, with opening night set for May 2nd.

Lakewood Theatre Company will present FUNNY GIRL in Lake Oswego.

Four Southern women, one unforgettable night out, Savannah Sipping Society is the show your soul needs right now.

BodyVox and Chamber Music Northwest will present Drawing on the Walls, their 10th collaboration, at Portland Community College's Sylvania campus, featuring wind quintet WindSync.

The 2026 Fertile Ground Festival kicks off on April 10.

Lakewood Theatre Company will present FLORA THE RED MENACE on April 10 and 11 as part of its Lost Treasures Collection series, featuring the first Broadway collaboration of Kander and Ebb in a concert-style production in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

OrpheusPDX founder and artistic director Christopher Mattaliano announced the Portland opera company will not produce opera in 2026, citing the decision as an intentional pause to plan and reset ahead of a planned 2027 return.

Former congressional staffer Lauren Mueller's debut play LIVING THE DREAM receives two staged readings at Chapel Theater in Milwaukie, OR on April 15 & 17, 2026.

Broadway in Portland will host the city's first Career Day at Keller Auditorium.

Casting has been announced for the North American Tour of BEETLEJUICE the Musical.

Portland Center Stage announced its 2026–2027 season, marking 20 years at The Armory with seven productions, including LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, and PETER PAN GOES WRONG.

Boublil and Schönberg's LES MISÉRABLES stormed back to the Keller Auditorium last night.

The American Theatre Guild will present HADESTOWN at The Buddy Holly Hall in Lubbock, Texas as part of the 2025–2026 Broadway at the Buddy Holly Hall Series.

Oregon Children's Theatre (OCT) will present “Red Yarn & Friends,” a family-friendly concert, on Sunday, May 17 at Alberta Abbey.

DEAR EVAN HANSEN, now running at Broadway Rose, is a multiple Tony Award-winning musical about an anxious, depressed, and profoundly lonely high schooler who gets swept into an extraordinary situation when a classmate named Connor Murphy dies by suicide.

FERTILE GROUND will present LIVING THE DREAM, a new play by a congressional staffer, exploring the events of January 6th.

Gallery Theater will present ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD in McMinnville, Oregon.

Experience Theatre Project will present RUMORS, a comedic play by Neil Simon, opening on April 17.

The Diary of an Oregon Trail Spinster will be presented at the Fertile Ground Festival in Portland.

What did our critic think of ALMA DE LUNA at HART Theatre? Invisible Friends Productions presents a World Premiere production written by local playwright David Fuks and directed by Humberto Mugnai, now playing at Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre.