Upcoming Shows
Written and originally performed by Samuel Yakura, The Perfect Immigrant is a West Coast Premiere solo performance following Levi, a young Nigerian man pursuing a...
by Krista Garver - May 07, 2026
When I saw Portland Playhouse's 2025–2026 season announced, the show I was most irrationally excited about was THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL. I’m far from an expert on the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, but I've watched enough episodes to have completely fallen for the little yellow sponge in square pa...
by Krista Garver - May 07, 2026
You don't often get the chance to see DOCTOR FAUSTUS on stage. Christopher Marlowe's early 1600s masterwork is the ur-text of the Faustian bargain, the template for everything from the musical Damn Yankees to the Al Pacino-Keanu Reeves film The Devil's Advocate. And yet it rarely gets produced. Than...
by Krista Garver - May 04, 2026
Nearly 40 years after its Broadway premiere, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA continues to cast its spell. I saw proof of that everywhere at the packed Keller Auditorium, including a young girl clutching a teddy bear wearing a tiny Phantom mask. The now and future PHANTOM fandom is in excellent hands....
by Dawn Sellers - May 03, 2026
Hello Gorgeous! Lakewood Theatre brings the curtain down on its 73rd season in spectacular fashion with the heartfelt, funny, and moving musical comedy Funny Girl. What a way to say goodbye to a landmark season. Get tix https://lakewood-center.org/...
by Krista Garver - April 30, 2026
Confession time: I saw the original production of FAT HAM on Broadway, and I thought “meh.” Clearly, I just didn’t get it. Now, after seeing this stunning co-production between Portland Center Stage and Portland Playhouse, directed by Charles Grant, I finally understand....
by Krista Garver - April 29, 2026
Fertile Ground 2026 wrapped up last weekend, and on the whole, it was fantastic. I saw 17 shows, which included readings of plays by well-known local playwrights, new works by rising stars, and some fun genre-bending original performances. Here are my notes about the final set. If you missed my firs...
by Krista Garver - April 24, 2026
On my way to Shaking the Tree Theatre to see Tennessee Williams' THE GLASS MENAGERIE, I realized I had seen more comical adaptations of the play, ranging from gently ribbing to outright farcical, than actual productions of it....
by Krista Garver - April 20, 2026
What did our critic think of FERTILE GROUND 2026 - REVIEW ROUNDUP #2 at Various?...
by Dawn Sellers - April 17, 2026
If you love sitcoms, Hollywood nostalgia, and a good love story, Ladybug! Ladybug! is an absolute delight, and you still have a chance to catch it tonight!...
by Krista Garver - April 13, 2026
This year’s Fertile Ground Festival started last Friday. As in years past, I’ll be posting short reviews of everything I see. Here’s the first set....
Past Shows
by E.M. Lewis | directed by Zeina SalameGet the boys together, we’re going on a quest! It’s been a hard year for Eddie, so he...
A daughter and father embark on a shapeshifting road trip across the country. They fill their time doing regular father-daughter things: playing palindromic word games...
Welcome to Cabbotville! Step right into this quaint Oregon town grappling with hard times since the logging mill closed. Enter Rudy, a queer kid whose...
Artists Repertory Theatre is coming home! Each night, join us for one of the decades with ART Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings, launching at 1515...
A troubled writer, raw with grief from the death of his wife, is hired to ghostwrite the biography of a wealthy man accused of murdering...
An ART commission and launch of the Rolling World Premiere, American Fast centers on a top-ranked college basketball star leading her team into the Final Four. Khady...
Artists Repertory Theatre (ART) will hold a weeklong festival of in-person concert stagings of new plays and film screenings developed by ART during the 18...
Emily is a would-be writer whose bubble life in NYC has popped. Finding life back home in Hawaii chaotic and unfulfilling, she becomes strangely activated...
Whatever Carla wants, Carla gets. And, little man, Carla wants an audience! Now! Sick of the pandemic and desperate to be back in the spotlight,...
During the pandemic-disrupted 2020/2021 theatre season, Artists Rep and The Actors Conservatory shifted focus to theatre works adapted into digital mediums, and co-produced a new...
DROP THE MIC is a storytelling project collaboration with Artists Rep and Back Fence PDX featuring the work of some of Portlands best storytellers: Chris...
A five-part audio drama, adapted from Mellon Playwright-in-Residence and Steinberg Award winning playwright, E.M. Lewis epic play MAGELLANICA that Artists Rep premiered in 2018. Immerse...
The Berlin Diaries, the autobiographical story of Andreas quest to untangle her familys history using her German-Jewish great-grandfathers diary, to be released to ART audiences...
Who runs the world? GIRLS! In 1793, during France’s Reign of Terror — a playwright, an assassin, a former queen, and a Caribbean spy walk...
High school is hard enough, but when you have a power hungry 17-year-old threatening to overthrow anyone in his way to becoming junior class President,...
The beloved holiday staple comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast with the story of George Bailey. George grew up in picturesque Bedford...
Death tells Everybody that their time is up. But Everybody doesn’t want to greet Death alone, so Everybody seeks the company of their friends Stuff,...
It's 2008, and one of the last auto plants in Detroit is dying on the vine. The factory workers that remain are living paycheck-to-paycheck but...
Two teens – a sick and snarky girl who hates poetry, and a sweet and sporty boy who just wants to get his class work...
A group of mismatched teachers and actors have been charged by the school district to devise an ethnically sensitive play to somehow celebrate both Thanksgiving...
No rehearsals. No director. No set. Every night a new actor opens an envelope and encounters the script for the first time. Will you participate?...
Meet Walter “Pops” Washington, retired after 30 years from the NYPD after being shot by a white, rookie cop. Holding court from his recently deceased...
An explosive Kansas City DJ broadcasts his articulate, profane and impassioned testimony to American jazz in an 80-minute music-filled interactive experience. "A euphoric and heartrending...
WORLD PREMIERE! In 1985, scientists and engineers from around the world converge at the South Pole Research Station to figure out, among other things, if...
It’s the small family dinner that made big waves on Broadway. Enclosed in a basement apartment, a middle-class family gathers to christen Brigid and Richard’s...
Chinese activist artists have devised a four-part theatrical installation to jar audiences out of their complacent acceptance of the daily onslaught of ‘alternative facts.’ With...
An Octoroon is a raucously irreverent Gone with the Wind meets Looney Tunes mash-up that The New York Times calls “…this decade’s most eloquent theatrical...
Part standup comedy special, part teen zine confessional, They, Themself and Schmerm is Becca’s disturbingly hilarious personal tale of identity, abuse, sexuality and gender. You’ll...
An all-female, all-star Portland cast leads a gender-bending production of Oscar Wilde’s magnificent 19th Century comedy of manners and social status. Lovely Gwendolyn and adorable...
The American Dream teeters on the edge of the abyss as immigrants Cindy and Omar face their thwarted dreams and unraveling marriage while Omar’s buddy...
In this riveting performance, Smith unravels the myth of “the first reality TV star.” Rodney King tells the story of a flawed, good-hearted everyman -...
The fairytale concoction of teen angst and devastating loss makes for a grisly good time in this crackling new “thrilledy” — a stew of dark...
Is Joe Biden a loser? Is Kanye West a winner? What about microwave ovens, Goldman Sachs or Mexico? Old friends Marcus Youssef and James Long...
In this tender and inquisitive new drama, a family grapples with the difference between a life lived and a life remembered as 85-year-old Marjorie struggles...
Set during a time when the country is divided by conflicting ideologies and convictions following a contentious presidential election, Vogel’s sweeping, music-rich story plays out...
“As soon as I finish speaking you will clap. Even those of you who were a bit bored will clap because it’s a comfortable way...
When the American Dream is dashed, try making a sandwich! A trio of disparate and desperate ‘sandwich artists’ find themselves abandoned by their fast-food franchise...
The star of this hilarious and heart-wrenching new comedy is Trevor, a 200-pound chimp intent on reviving his showbiz career. He worked with Morgan Fairchild,...
The new year finds ART of WNY presenting the classic story, The Gin Game, written by D.L. Coburn. Directed by Michael Lodick, two retirees (Gary...
“What J. Edgar doesn’t know won’t hurt him.” “Hoover knows everything. He’s like Santa.” A madcap, irreverent farce of spy versus counter-spy, set in the...
Videos
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Fat Ham Portland Center Stage at The Aromory (4/19-5/17) |
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Funny Girl Lakewood Theatre Company (4/24-6/07) |
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Next To Normal Twilight Theater Company (5/21-6/14) |
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The Belle Supper Club: A Burlesque Dinner Cabaret Victorian Belle Mansion (6/12-6/12) |
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Keller Auditorium (8/02-8/15) |
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Oregon State Beavers vs. Montana Grizzlies Reser Stadium (9/19-9/19) |
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X by Alistair McDowall CoHo Theatre (5/21-6/07) |
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Doja Cat at Moda Center Moda Center (10/17-10/17) |
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A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation Vert Auditorium (5/16-5/16) |
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Mamma Mia! Keller Auditorium (6/02-6/07) |
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