by Dawn Sellers - March 03, 2026
Few plays in theatrical history have achieved the enduring success of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie. Since its premiere in 1952, the production has continued its celebrated run in London, earning its place as the longest running show of any kind in the world. ...
by Krista Garver - February 19, 2026
Portland Playhouse is not known for playing it safe, so it's fitting that their latest production centers on a woman, Anna Campbell, who built her entire legend on one audacious act. ...
by Dawn Sellers - February 16, 2026
Geography of a Horse Dreamer by Sam Shepard wrestles with artistic value, exploitation, power, and control. You will never dream the same again. On stage at Imago Theatre through March 1, 2026...
by Krista Garver - February 12, 2026
In Kallan Dana’s RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, a father (Anthony Green Caloca) and his adult daughter (Jerilyn Armstrong) head off on a cross-country drive from New York to California to clean out a storage unit....
by Krista Garver - February 11, 2026
It took about 10 seconds for tears to well up in my eyes during the opening monologue of THE BODY'S MIDNIGHT. They stayed there, occasionally spilling over, for the rest of Tira Palmquist's exquisite play. This show is just the second production by 100 Lives Repertory, but it firmly establishes them...
by Krista Garver - February 11, 2026
How do we carry on when everything is falling apart? In YOU STUPID DARKNESS!, Sam Steiner's funny and touching dramedy now running at 21ten Theatre, four volunteers spend their Tuesday nights answering calls at Brightline, a listening service for people who need someone to tell them everything is go...
by Krista Garver - February 04, 2026
For years, I'd written off THE WIZ. My only prior experience with the show had been a disappointing production that left me confused about why the original had swept the Tony Awards in 1975, winning Best Musical and Best Original Score among other honors. ...
by Krista Garver - January 29, 2026
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard, or heard an entire packed audience laugh so hard. In a world that feels very heavy, Portland Center Stage's production of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG offers something we desperately need: two hours of pure, unrelenting fun....
by Krista Garver - January 29, 2026
There aren't many full-length one-person musicals, which makes IN CLAY particularly intriguing even before you discover how exquisite it is. This fairly new musical by Jack Miles and Rebecca Simmonds excavates the true story of Marie-Berthe Cazin, a French painter and sculptor in the late 19th and e...
by Krista Garver - January 27, 2026
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Past Shows
The musicians of Musica Universalis, together with the very American Briana Ratterman and the very British Jonathan Cullen, invite you to celebrate the season with...
Disney meets Sweeney Todd meets... a whole bunch of turkeysTurkeys! The Musical has been performed for six Novembers at Zombie Joe's Underground Theater in North Hollywood,...
Juliana Smithton is a brilliant scientist with a spine of steel, whose work is on the cusp of a massive breakthrough. While giving a talk...
Three short plays by Bill Lynch and Timothy Krause, directed by Scott Stroot A tent glowing in the dark, the solitude of lockdown, news about a...
“In all my plays I haven't introduced a single hero or a villain, but I couldn't spare myself the buffoons." - Anton ChekhovThink you know...
Zan is a misunderstood, reactionary high school student, forced to work off his community service assignment helping Dorothy, a pragmatic yet idealistic librarian going through...
Imagine discovering that you’re not the only version of yourself. When Bernard learns that he is one of a number of clones, he confronts his father,...
On a farm in Iowa, a winter storm rages with no end in sight. Trapped indoors, the landowner and his two employees engage in a...
A deck of cards is tossed into the air, each one inscribed with the title of a scene. Wherever they land determines how the story...
May N’Kame (played by Quigley Rovost-Landrum), is the mother of a dictator of an unnamed African nation who visits England to see Dr. Cora Gage...
21ten, the new community-focused theatre and acting studio co-founded by Ted Rooney and Brooke Totman (housed in the old Shoebox Theatre) is putting on HOLY...
Holy Days is a slice of life intimate drama about a family striving to survive on a farm in Kansas during the 1930s Dust Bowl....
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