PORTLAND THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 81

Artists Rep's Artistic Director and Interim Managing Director Damaso Rodriguez announces the line-up for Artists Rep's 36th Anniversary Season that includes seven compelling contemporary plays for their subscription series, along with two limited engagement productions.

For over 40 years Penn & Teller have defied labels-and at times physics and good taste - by redefining the genre of magic and inventing their own very distinct niche in comedy.

THE MERMAID HOUR is part of a National New Play Network rolling world premiere.

It's not just a youth orchestra, it's PYP! Locally-grown since 1924, Portland Youth Philharmonic caps off an astonishing 94th concert season with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition on Sunday, May 6, 2018.

Tyler McKenzie is an actor, singer, and dancer who has recently played the role of George Eacker in Hamilton: An American Musical on Broadway in New York.

New Century Players Community Theatre presents ENCHANTED APRIL (Staged Reading), by Matthew Barber, from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim.

Do you have an original idea for a movie? And do you plan on attending Wizard World Comic Con Portland? This could be your day.

Now in its second season, Crave Theatre presents Crossing by the South African playwright Reza de Wet, directed by Sarah Andrews, in the play's Portland premiere, May 18th-June 3rd at the Shoe Box Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm.

Lakewood Theatre Company will be having open auditions for the musical PIPPIN on SATURDAY, APRIL 28 and SUNDAY, APRIL 29,  2018.

Lakewood Theatre Company will begin its 66th season with six productions on its Mainstage and three productions on its Side Door stage beginning July 6, 2018.

Artists Repertory Theatre, in association with Aurora Nova Productions and Boat Rocker Entertainment, presents White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour featuring one local actor for each show who performs the play cold.

Puppeteers for Fears (the only all-original, all-local theater company in Southern Oregon, and recently voted Best Non-OSF Theater Company by readers of The Rogue Valley Messenger) is announcing its new season today for World Puppet Day.

The profound influence of Elliott Smith (1969-2003) continues to echo long after his death, and to honor and explore the music of this Portland icon, Third Angle New Music has commissioned 6 leading young composers to reimagine his repertoire.

Portland Opera General Director Christopher Mattaliano announced today the addition of a "November Classic" opera to launch the 2018/19 season.

 The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present the world premiere of Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle, directed by Laurie Woolery, on April 1, 2018, in the Thomas Theatre.

As a woman, a musician, a writer/illustrator, and a single mother, Block faced her share of setbacks and naysayers.

Artists Repertory Theatre is proud to present the World Premiere of The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota) from April 1 through 29, on the Morrison Stage.

BroadwayWorld is excited to announce we're launching a new Facebook Group for the Portland Theatre community, bringing together performers, audience members, theatre groups, and more to create a local space for discussion and networking.

Andrew Hinderaker's THE MAGIC PLAY, now running at Portland Center Stage, combines some truly impressive sleight of hand with achingly raw emotion into a show that is the antidote to cynicism and could touch even the most jaded of hearts.

After taking the entertainment world by storm in his breakout role as "Fonzie" in the popular sitcom "Happy Days" (1975-85), Henry Winkler established himself as an award-winning producer and director, mixing in a few well-placed acting roles like Scream and Waterboy along the way.

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY is a fascinating look at the complexity of being human and the even greater complexity of forming relationships with other complex humans.

The clash between a daughter's philanthropic idealism and her father's hard-headed capitalism is at the heart of George Bernard Shaw's witty and timely classic Major Barbara, which begins preview performances at The Armory on April 14, opens on April 20, and runs through May 13 on the U.

There were zero dry eyes and two standing ovations (one during the show) at opening night of SCARLET, Michelle Horgen's excellent new musical adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel The Scarlet Letter.

Artists Rep presents the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

Shaking the Tree's MACBETH is full of terrifying demons and shadows.