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Portland Stage is excited to open up the next round of submissions for the Little Festival of the Unexpected.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival today announced six new commissions as part of American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, OSF's multi-decade program of commissioning and developing 37 new plays about moments of change in United States history.

Drawing inspiration from Notre-Dame and themes of transformation, Oscar Bettison has written a new 13-minute orchestral work, Remaking a Forest, to be premiered by Carlos Kalmar and the Oregon Symphony on September 27-30.

Bath Night, a sketch comedy show, returns to Portland after a four year hiatus.

Portland Opera is pleased to welcome two-time Tony Award-winning actress and singer Sutton Foster to Portland at the Flora + Fauna Fall Ball on Saturday, September 14, 2019 at the Portland Art Museum.

This August In the Heights, the sizzling summer musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) and Quiara Alegría Hudes (Water by the Spoonful), will launch Portland Center Stage at The Armory's 2019-2020 season.

Portland Story Theater launches its 16th season in a beautiful brand new venue, Nordic Northwest's Nordia House, the cultural center in Portland's Southwest quadrant located at 8800 SW Oleson Road.

Due to changes to the tour route of CHICAGO The Musical, which is beyond the control of Seattle Theatre Group (STG), the September engagement (Sept.

GORP -- one of Portland's silliest and most inclusive improv shows -- is joining forces with Portland comedy royalty Shain Brenden (NBC's Blazers Outsiders), Corina Lucas (Savage Love Live Tour), Stacey Hallal (Curious Comedy Theater founder), a?oelocal improv geniusesa?? Broke Gravy (Portland Mercu

Broadway in Portland announces that Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY will play Keller Auditorium August 13th through 18th.

This summer, Portland Actors Conservatory is beginning a new acting class titled Acting for Real I which will be taught by the Conservatory's founder and Artistic Director, Beth Harper, a highly respected and much sought-after acting teacher.

Enso Theatre Ensemble ventures into its first site-specific work with Much Ado, a streamlined take on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing devised by and giving voice to female and queer voices.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will open How To Catch Creation, helmed by Incoming Artistic Director Nataki Garrett in her OSF directorial debut, on July 27 in the Thomas Theatre.

Portland Opera announces an executive leadership transition, with General Director Christopher Mattaliano, who has led the company for 16 years, transitioning to the role of Artistic Consultant beginning with the 2019-20 season.

Portland Shakespeare Project and Proscenium Journal present the fifth annual Proscenium Live Festival of New Work with two days of fresh plays.

Gordon Barr's adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romcom, Much Ado About Nothing, sweeps onto the Vault Theater stage this July, opening Bag&Baggage's 2019-2020 Season in colorful, campy fashion.

"The Graduate" opens July 26th.

Lakewood Theatre Company opens its 67th season with Roald Dahl's Matilda, the Musical.

Tonight Nothing is new work created and performed by Merideth Kaye Clark and Katherine Murphy Lewis that follows the paths of two long-term friends, Kaye and Em, who must find their way back to themselves and each other.

Rehearsals have begun for PHAME's collaborative rock opera, on stage this August at the Hampton Opera Center.