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Third Rail Repertory Theatre Presents MELANCHOLY PLAY (A CHAMBER MUSICAL) By Sarah Ruhl
by BWW News Desk - November 01, 2019
Tilly is consumed by a melancholy so exquisite that no one can resist her. Her tailor, her hairdresser, and even her therapist succumb to the allure of her perpetual sadness. But when Tilly inexplicably discovers happiness, her joy wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Contrary to its title, this whimsical comedy by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl will make you fall in love with love.
THE HIP HOP NUTCRACKER Will Come to Keller Auditorium
by BWW News Desk - October 31, 2019
Portland's new favorite holiday tradition returns to Keller Auditorium for two performances on November 12th and 13th. Tickets are on sale now at www.portland5.com, the Portland'5 Centers for the Arts box office at 1111 SW Broadway, and by phone: 800-273-1530.
CMA Songwriters Series Is Coming to Portland
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2019
The Country Music Association's acclaimed CMA Songwriters Series Presented by   U.S. Bank has announced a performance in Portland, OR at Aladdin Theater Sunday, Dec. 8 featuring top tunesmiths Marcus Hummon, Lori McKenna, Lee Thomas Miller and Tenille Townes. The series hosts an intimate round of performances with some of Country Music's hottest songwriters taking turns sharing the stories behind their hit songs and performing them as originally written. Tickets for the performance are $20 (plus fees) and go on sale Friday, Nov. 1 at 12:00 PM/CT (10:00 AM/PT) through Aladdin Theater and CMAsongwritersseries.com. $1 of each ticket sold will benefit the CMA Foundation, CMA's philanthropic arm, which is committed to investing in high quality music education programs for all students in the United States. 
CMA Songwriters Series Announces Portland Performance
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 30, 2019
The Country Music Association's acclaimed CMA Songwriters Series Presented by   U.S. Bank has announced a performance in Portland, OR at Aladdin Theater Sunday, Dec. 8 featuring top tunesmiths Marcus Hummon, Lori McKenna, Lee Thomas Miller and Tenille Townes. The series hosts an intimate round of performances with some of Country Music's hottest songwriters taking turns sharing the stories behind their hit songs and performing them as originally written. Tickets for the performance are $20 (plus fees) and go on sale Friday, Nov. 1 at 12:00 PM/CT (10:00 AM/PT) through Aladdin Theater and CMAsongwritersseries.com. $1 of each ticket sold will benefit the CMA Foundation, CMA's philanthropic arm, which is committed to investing in high quality music education programs for all students in the United States. 
Photo Flash: REDWOOD At Portland Center Stage At The Armory.
by BWW News Desk - October 28, 2019
This October, Brittany K. Allen will star in the world premiere of her play Redwood at Portland Center Stage at The Armory.
Chehalem Cultural Center presents the World Premiere of A UNIVERSAL FEELING & REVEAL/CONCEAL
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2019
Chehalem Cultural Center hosts the world premiere of A Universal Feeling, an international collaborative installation of emotion masks featuring the work of 60 artists from around the world imbuing their own artistic and cultural perspective within their contributions. This ambitious undertaking was created by Portland interdisciplinary artist Tony Fuemmeler, and is presented in conjunction with Reveal/Conceal, a showcase retrospective of Fuemmeler's work. For the past 19 years, Fuemmeler's primary work is in theatre mask-making. In addition, his repertoire includes puppetry in a range of styles and movement direction for puppets and masks, devising new works, directing theatre productions, producing, performing, and also working as a teaching artist.
Portland Stage Presents The First Full Reading Of PERSEVERANCE
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2019
Portland Stage presents the first full reading of Perseverance, by Callie Kimball, commissioned by Portland Stage and the Maine Suffrage Centennial Collaborative.
Final Week To Submit Nominations For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2019
This is the final week to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Don't miss your chance to make sure your favorite Portland Theatres are represented!
Marissa Wolf Makes Portland Center Stage Directing Debut With MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2019
Artistic Director Marissa Wolf will make her Portland Center Stage at The Armory directing debut with Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, a delightful Jane Austen-inspired comedy from playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. Portland favorite Lauren Modica (Bedlam's Sense and Sensibility and Twist Your Dickens at The Armory) will star as middle sister Mary Bennet, who takes center stage in this charming and clever sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. When the Bennet sisters gather at the home of Lizzy and Darcy for the holidays, an unexpected guest sparks brilliant, bookish Mary's hopes for independence, an intellectual match, and perhaps even romance.
New Century Players Community Theater Presents THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2019
New Century Players Community Theater presents THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB by P.J. Barry.
BWW Review: ONCE Quietly Enchants, at Broadway Rose
by Krista Garver - October 18, 2019
Lakewood Theatre Company Presents The Comedy SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2019
Lakewood Theatre Company continues its 67th season of live theatre with Shakespeare in Love, directed by David Sikking, a romantic comedy, based on the award-winning screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman. The story was adapted for the stage by Lee Hall with music by Paddy Cunneen and plays at Lakewood Theatre Company November 1 a?" December 8, 2019. 
CLOWN DOWN: Failed to Mount with Carla Rossi, Portland's Premiere Drag Clown
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2019
Risk/Reward, a presenting organization in Portland, Ore., has supported local Native performance artist Anthony Hudson's work since 2012, when The DECEPTiCONS, a?oethe most prestigious post-contemporary performance dance group in PDX that has never done a show beforea?? (featuring fellow drag artist Kaj-Anne Pepper), premiered W*RQ at the Festival of New Performance.
Third Angle New Music Presents BACK IN THE GROOVE
by BWW News Desk - October 14, 2019
On November 5 & 6 at 7:30 pm, Third Angle leads you past the pool tables and down the back stairs for an underground set of music that grooves. Join Third Angle at Jack London Revue for Back in the Groove, a concert in one of Portland's favorite jazz clubs as 3A blurs musical boundaries and gets your feet tapping.
Two Weeks Left To Nominate For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
by BWW News Desk - October 14, 2019
There's just two weeks left to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to nominate and vote for your favorites! Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
Asylum Theatre Returns with BURN THIS
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2019
Asylum Theatre returns with their sophomore production, Lanford Wilson's Burn This.
The Theatre Company Launches In 2020
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2019
Jen Rowe and Brandon Woolley are teaming up to launch The Theatre Company in Portland, OR. They will oversee the artistic vision of the company as CoArtistic Directors with their first season beginning in 2020. As staples in the Portland theatre community in multiple roles (director, actor, casting director, producer), these two thirty-somethings plan to present Portland premieres of timely, socially relevant, and culturally conscious plays. The Theatre Company's mission is to enliven their community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. Their inaugural two-show season will premier in March 2020 with The Moors by Jen Silverman and Vinegar Tom by Carol Churchill in October 2020. Woolley directs and Rowe leads the cast of The Moors as Huldey in a production that will transform Copeland Commons at TaborSpace in Southeast Portland. Rowe directs Churchill's Vinegar Tom staged at The Hallowed Halls, a recording studio at Holgate and 64th Avenue in Southeast Portland. 
Thinker Toys Celebrates 25 Years In Portland With A Pony Ride And Red Yarn Show
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2019
Thinker Toys, a retail icon of southwest Portland's Multnomah Village, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this November 1st to 3rd, 2019.
Rupi Kaur Comes To Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
by BWW News Desk - October 09, 2019
Rupi Kaur comes to Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Wednesday, December 4, 2019.
MISS SAIGON Comes To Keller Auditorium, November 5
by BWW News Desk - October 08, 2019
Casting for Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg's legendary musical MISS SAIGONa?"a smash hit in London, Broadway and across the UKa?"has been announced for its highly anticipated engagement at Portland's Keller Auditorium for one week only.

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