Third Rail Announces 2019-2020 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2019
Third Rail Repertory Theatre announces its 14th Season. This is the Third Rail you know and love... and Third Rail like you've never seen it before.
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2019
Third Rail Repertory Theatre announces its 14th Season. This is the Third Rail you know and love... and Third Rail like you've never seen it before.
Portland Opera Presents Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2019
Portland Opera is thrilled to bring its production of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville to the stage this June. Considered one of the greatest comic operas of all time, Rossini's opera tells the story of the Count Almaviva, who has fallen for the charming Rosina, and enlists the help of the town barber Figaro to assist in winning her affection. Together they try to outwit her guardian Dr. Bartolo, who also vies for her hand.
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2019
Portland Opera is thrilled to bring its production of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville to the stage this June. Considered one of the greatest comic operas of all time, Rossini's opera tells the story of the Count Almaviva, who has fallen for the charming Rosina, and enlists the help of the town barber Figaro to assist in winning her affection. Together they try to outwit her guardian Dr. Bartolo, who also vies for her hand.
BWW Review: JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN Exposes the Fragile Relationship Between Law and Justice, at CoHo Theatre
by Krista Garver - May 08, 2019
Commit the crime, do the time. It seems so simple, and so logical. But, as Stephen Adly Guirgis's JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN so superbly shows, nothing about our criminal justice system is that simple, or that logical. If you don't have your tickets yet, get them now.
by Krista Garver - May 08, 2019
Commit the crime, do the time. It seems so simple, and so logical. But, as Stephen Adly Guirgis's JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN so superbly shows, nothing about our criminal justice system is that simple, or that logical. If you don't have your tickets yet, get them now.
OSF Announces 2019 Green Show Season
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2019
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) announced the 2019 Green Show schedule today. Free outdoor entertainment returns to the 'Bricks' June 7, coinciding with the official opening of the outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre. The Green Show season continues, four nights a week at 6:45 p.m., through September 28. The full schedule of free performances by local, national and international acts is available here.
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2019
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) announced the 2019 Green Show schedule today. Free outdoor entertainment returns to the 'Bricks' June 7, coinciding with the official opening of the outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre. The Green Show season continues, four nights a week at 6:45 p.m., through September 28. The full schedule of free performances by local, national and international acts is available here.
Surfing, Dentistry & Family History Meet In OTHER INLAND EMPIRES
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2019
Writer and director Julie Hammond presents the Portland premiere of Other Inland Empires at Portland Playhouse from June 26-30, 2019. This new play explores the Jewish roots of surf culture with roving scenery, dreamy pop music, and sly humour.
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2019
Writer and director Julie Hammond presents the Portland premiere of Other Inland Empires at Portland Playhouse from June 26-30, 2019. This new play explores the Jewish roots of surf culture with roving scenery, dreamy pop music, and sly humour.
OUR RUINED HOUSE A PETE Original Announced At Reed College
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2019
Examining the geopolitical through the lens of the interpersonal, Our Ruined House summons a world in which the audience's perception becomes the principal arbiter of what is 'true'. Featuring a giant octopus, a tiny meatloaf, and the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, Our Ruined House investigates a world driven more by the appearance of winning than any central truth. By contrasting the slippery, subjective narratives of both romantic and geopolitical relationships, we point at the sacrifices made in order to 'win' in both arenas. What narratives will we create and what secrets will we bury in order to come out on top, in both love and war? What are we willing to ruin on the road to victory?
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2019
Examining the geopolitical through the lens of the interpersonal, Our Ruined House summons a world in which the audience's perception becomes the principal arbiter of what is 'true'. Featuring a giant octopus, a tiny meatloaf, and the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, Our Ruined House investigates a world driven more by the appearance of winning than any central truth. By contrasting the slippery, subjective narratives of both romantic and geopolitical relationships, we point at the sacrifices made in order to 'win' in both arenas. What narratives will we create and what secrets will we bury in order to come out on top, in both love and war? What are we willing to ruin on the road to victory?
Chapel Theatre Collective Closes Season with CURVE OF DEPARTURE by Rachel Bonds
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2019
Chapel Theatre's resident theatre company, Chapel Theatre Collective(CTC) presents its third/final show of their inaugural season, the Northwest Premiere of Curve of Departure by Rachel Bonds, May 10-25, 2019. Directed by CTC's Co-Artistic Director Danielle Weathers, and starring Robert Barr, Shelley B. Shelley, Blake Stone and fellow Co-Artistic Director of CTC, Illya deTorres.
by BWW News Desk - May 07, 2019
Chapel Theatre's resident theatre company, Chapel Theatre Collective(CTC) presents its third/final show of their inaugural season, the Northwest Premiere of Curve of Departure by Rachel Bonds, May 10-25, 2019. Directed by CTC's Co-Artistic Director Danielle Weathers, and starring Robert Barr, Shelley B. Shelley, Blake Stone and fellow Co-Artistic Director of CTC, Illya deTorres.
Photo Flash: Portland Center Stage Presents THE BREATH OF LIFE
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2019
Portland favorites Gretchen Corbett and Sharonlee McLean take the stage beginning May 4 to star in David Hare's The Breath of Life, a two-woman play The Daily Telegraph called "bitingly funny." When Francis Beale (McLean) decides she wants one last word with her ex-husband's ex-lover (Corbett), both women are forced to confront their past, their failed relationships, dashed ideals and the lens through which they choose to view their futures. Ken Rus Schmoll (readings in six of the last ten JAW Festivals at The Armory, productions at Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop) will direct.
by BWW News Desk - May 06, 2019
Portland favorites Gretchen Corbett and Sharonlee McLean take the stage beginning May 4 to star in David Hare's The Breath of Life, a two-woman play The Daily Telegraph called "bitingly funny." When Francis Beale (McLean) decides she wants one last word with her ex-husband's ex-lover (Corbett), both women are forced to confront their past, their failed relationships, dashed ideals and the lens through which they choose to view their futures. Ken Rus Schmoll (readings in six of the last ten JAW Festivals at The Armory, productions at Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop) will direct.
Mad Horse Theatre Company Presents THE TOMB OF KING TOT
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2019
Directed by company member Reba Askari, THE TOMB OF KING TOT is the story of comic strip creator Jane Haley. She is nominated for the Chuckling Willow award but when tragedy strikes the Haley household Jane copes by working furiously on her strip. Her art suffers as her main character wanders through the Land of the Dead looking for his "mummy". The play makes the case for whimsy as a filter both for shutting out and eventually coming to terms with an unforgiving world.
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2019
Directed by company member Reba Askari, THE TOMB OF KING TOT is the story of comic strip creator Jane Haley. She is nominated for the Chuckling Willow award but when tragedy strikes the Haley household Jane copes by working furiously on her strip. Her art suffers as her main character wanders through the Land of the Dead looking for his "mummy". The play makes the case for whimsy as a filter both for shutting out and eventually coming to terms with an unforgiving world.
[A LOVE STORY] By Enda Walsh At Third Rail Opens In May
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2019
A young woman waits alone in a room for her number to be called. On the other side of the wall, a young man watches her. A choice must be made, one that will disrupt the course of their lives forever. The line between dreams and reality blurs in this multi-media exploration of what it means to wait...to hope...and to remember. In a dangerous, dystopian world, what if love is the most powerful act of resistance?
by BWW News Desk - May 04, 2019
A young woman waits alone in a room for her number to be called. On the other side of the wall, a young man watches her. A choice must be made, one that will disrupt the course of their lives forever. The line between dreams and reality blurs in this multi-media exploration of what it means to wait...to hope...and to remember. In a dangerous, dystopian world, what if love is the most powerful act of resistance?
imago Theatre World Premiere of PEBBLE Opens Next Friday
by BWW News Desk - May 03, 2019
From Imago's creator of The Reunion and Fallout, Carol Triffle puts up her latest work Pebble. Pebble is an outsider, or an artist, until one day a mysterious visitor comes and things begin to unravel through song, dance, and pills shared like snacks. Hilarious and heartbreaking.
by BWW News Desk - May 03, 2019
From Imago's creator of The Reunion and Fallout, Carol Triffle puts up her latest work Pebble. Pebble is an outsider, or an artist, until one day a mysterious visitor comes and things begin to unravel through song, dance, and pills shared like snacks. Hilarious and heartbreaking.
NNPN Rolling World Premiere of WOLF AT THE DOOR Continues in Portland
by Sarah Hookey - May 02, 2019
National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces the continuation of its 83rd Rolling World Premiere (RWP): Wolf at the Door by Marisela Treviño Orta. With a successful run at New Jersey Repertory Company (Long Branch) and its second production wrapping up at Kitchen Dog Theater this weekend, (Dallas, TX), the play arrives this week at Milagro (May 2-25) before wrapping up its Roll at Halcyon Theatre (2019 Dates TBA in Chicago).
by Sarah Hookey - May 02, 2019
National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces the continuation of its 83rd Rolling World Premiere (RWP): Wolf at the Door by Marisela Treviño Orta. With a successful run at New Jersey Repertory Company (Long Branch) and its second production wrapping up at Kitchen Dog Theater this weekend, (Dallas, TX), the play arrives this week at Milagro (May 2-25) before wrapping up its Roll at Halcyon Theatre (2019 Dates TBA in Chicago).
NATIVE GARDENS To Open At The Armory
by BWW News Desk - April 30, 2019
Cultures and gardens clash in acclaimed playwright Karen Zacarias' hilarious hot-button comedy Native Gardens. When a questionable fence line puts a prize-worthy garden in jeopardy, neighborly rivalry escalates into an all-out border dispute, challenging everyone's notions of race, privilege, class, and good taste. Well-intentioned neighbors quickly turn into feuding enemies.
by BWW News Desk - April 30, 2019
Cultures and gardens clash in acclaimed playwright Karen Zacarias' hilarious hot-button comedy Native Gardens. When a questionable fence line puts a prize-worthy garden in jeopardy, neighborly rivalry escalates into an all-out border dispute, challenging everyone's notions of race, privilege, class, and good taste. Well-intentioned neighbors quickly turn into feuding enemies.
Gambatte: An American Legacy Comes To Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2019
GAMBATTE: An American Legacy explores the resilience and fortitude of the Japanese American community, from Nihonmachi, Portland's historic Japan town, to the present. Through theatre, dance and music the 90-minute performance is a way to raise empathy and heal the emotional legacy and the effects of racism in America.
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2019
GAMBATTE: An American Legacy explores the resilience and fortitude of the Japanese American community, from Nihonmachi, Portland's historic Japan town, to the present. Through theatre, dance and music the 90-minute performance is a way to raise empathy and heal the emotional legacy and the effects of racism in America.
Bag&Baggage Presents PETER/WENDY
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2019
"It's not some new crazy adaptation, but the story stripped down to its bare elements," says playwright Jeremy Bloom when discussing his 2013 play Peter/Wendy, an adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and The Little White Bird. "The book was intended to be read aloud to children, but it was also written and continuously rewritten by a person in a state of perpetual loss." Bag&Baggage Productions takes its nod of inspiration directly from Bloom as they bring his script to life this May, working with sparse yet highly imaginative staging, and leaning into some of the darker elements of the narrative.
by BWW News Desk - April 27, 2019
"It's not some new crazy adaptation, but the story stripped down to its bare elements," says playwright Jeremy Bloom when discussing his 2013 play Peter/Wendy, an adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy and The Little White Bird. "The book was intended to be read aloud to children, but it was also written and continuously rewritten by a person in a state of perpetual loss." Bag&Baggage Productions takes its nod of inspiration directly from Bloom as they bring his script to life this May, working with sparse yet highly imaginative staging, and leaning into some of the darker elements of the narrative.
MediaRites and CoHo Productions Present THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL
by BWW News Desk - April 25, 2019
MediaRites, a nonprofit organization that provides innovative, award-winning documentary, theatre and outreach programs today announced a major milestone with CoHo Productions on its first co-produced play, The Brothers Paranormal by award-winning LA playwright Prince Gomolvilas. Theatre Diaspora, a program of MediaRites, is Oregon's only professional Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company committed to portraying authentic AAPI cultural, historical, and social perspectives to reach broad audiences. Performance dates are Oct. 25-Nov. 16, 2019 at CoHo Theatre (2257 NW Raleigh St, Portland, OR 97210) and The Brothers Paranormal will be directed by Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly, MediaRites board member and assistant professor, theatre department at Reed College.
by BWW News Desk - April 25, 2019
MediaRites, a nonprofit organization that provides innovative, award-winning documentary, theatre and outreach programs today announced a major milestone with CoHo Productions on its first co-produced play, The Brothers Paranormal by award-winning LA playwright Prince Gomolvilas. Theatre Diaspora, a program of MediaRites, is Oregon's only professional Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company committed to portraying authentic AAPI cultural, historical, and social perspectives to reach broad audiences. Performance dates are Oct. 25-Nov. 16, 2019 at CoHo Theatre (2257 NW Raleigh St, Portland, OR 97210) and The Brothers Paranormal will be directed by Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly, MediaRites board member and assistant professor, theatre department at Reed College.
Dramatic Repertory Co. Presents THE FLICK
by BWW News Desk - April 24, 2019
Dramatic Repertory Company presents the Maine Premiere THE FLICK by Annie Baker, directed by Keith Powell Beyland, playing May 31 - June 9, 2019. This premiere production will be presented at the Studio Theater at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave.
by BWW News Desk - April 24, 2019
Dramatic Repertory Company presents the Maine Premiere THE FLICK by Annie Baker, directed by Keith Powell Beyland, playing May 31 - June 9, 2019. This premiere production will be presented at the Studio Theater at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave.
Playwright Andrea Stolowitz earns third Oregon Book Award in Drama
by BWW News Desk - April 24, 2019
For the third time in six years, Portland, Oregon playwright Andrea Stolowitz has won the Oregon Book Award in drama.
by BWW News Desk - April 24, 2019
For the third time in six years, Portland, Oregon playwright Andrea Stolowitz has won the Oregon Book Award in drama.
Playwright Andrea Stolowitz Earns Third Oregon Book Award In Drama
by BWW News Desk - April 24, 2019
For the third time in six years, Portland, Oregon playwright Andrea Stolowitz has won the Oregon Book Award in drama.
by BWW News Desk - April 24, 2019
For the third time in six years, Portland, Oregon playwright Andrea Stolowitz has won the Oregon Book Award in drama.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Announces 2020 Season
by BWW News Desk - April 23, 2019
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Incoming Artistic Director Nataki Garrett and Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced the Festival's 2020 playbill today. The season celebrates OSF's ongoing commitment to the work of Shakespeare, imaginative adaptations of beloved classics and illuminating new plays in a Jubilee year that includes two world-premiere American Revolutions commissions for only the second time in the Festival's history.
by BWW News Desk - April 23, 2019
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Incoming Artistic Director Nataki Garrett and Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced the Festival's 2020 playbill today. The season celebrates OSF's ongoing commitment to the work of Shakespeare, imaginative adaptations of beloved classics and illuminating new plays in a Jubilee year that includes two world-premiere American Revolutions commissions for only the second time in the Festival's history.
Portland's Keller Auditorium Presents SCHOOL OF ROCK: THE MUSICAL
by Sarah Hookey - April 23, 2019
Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber's high-octane Broadway and West End hit School of Rock - The Musical is coming to Portland's Keller Auditorium from May 21 - 26.
by Sarah Hookey - April 23, 2019
Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber's high-octane Broadway and West End hit School of Rock - The Musical is coming to Portland's Keller Auditorium from May 21 - 26.
Portland Opera Presents Geoffrey Schellenberg In Recital
by BWW News Desk - April 23, 2019
Portland Opera hosts a special community recital featuring baritone Geoffrey Schellenberg, in his first year as a resident artist with the company. Portland Opera's Chorus Master & Assistant Conductor Nicholas Fox joins Schellenberg on piano.
by BWW News Desk - April 23, 2019
Portland Opera hosts a special community recital featuring baritone Geoffrey Schellenberg, in his first year as a resident artist with the company. Portland Opera's Chorus Master & Assistant Conductor Nicholas Fox joins Schellenberg on piano.
Photo Flash: Portland Center Stage Presents CROSSING MNISOSE
by BWW News Desk - April 18, 2019
Mary Kathryn Nagle's world premiere play Crossing Mnisose weaves together Sacajawea's story with that of the contemporary fight to protect the Mnisose (what Europeans named the Missouri River) from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
by BWW News Desk - April 18, 2019
Mary Kathryn Nagle's world premiere play Crossing Mnisose weaves together Sacajawea's story with that of the contemporary fight to protect the Mnisose (what Europeans named the Missouri River) from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Oregon Children's Theatre Presents DIARY OF A WORM, A SPIDER, AND A FLY
by BWW News Desk - April 16, 2019
Is Spider getting too big for his own skin? Will Fly find her superhero powers in time to save her Aunt Rita from peril? Will Worm learn to stand on his own two feet...even though he doesn't have feet? Take a look at the world from a bug's perspective and you'll see that their lives are a lot like ours.
by BWW News Desk - April 16, 2019
Is Spider getting too big for his own skin? Will Fly find her superhero powers in time to save her Aunt Rita from peril? Will Worm learn to stand on his own two feet...even though he doesn't have feet? Take a look at the world from a bug's perspective and you'll see that their lives are a lot like ours.
BWW Review: Love Knows No Borders in Sonya Kelly's Comedy HOW TO KEEP AN ALIEN, at Corrib Theatre
by Krista Garver - April 15, 2019
In Sonya Kelly's HOW TO KEEP AN ALIEN, now playing at Corrib Theatre, Irish Sonya falls in love with Australian Kate. The play tells their story -- a tale of two people literally going to the ends of the earth to be together. It's funny, quirky, and the perfect romantic antidote to the dreary Portland weather.
by Krista Garver - April 15, 2019
In Sonya Kelly's HOW TO KEEP AN ALIEN, now playing at Corrib Theatre, Irish Sonya falls in love with Australian Kate. The play tells their story -- a tale of two people literally going to the ends of the earth to be together. It's funny, quirky, and the perfect romantic antidote to the dreary Portland weather.
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The Prom
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The Princess and The Goblin King
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