Marsha Blovotnik and the Marvelous Magical Chicken Soup
Written by Dan Kitrosser and directed by Luan Schooler, this buoyant, crackling comedy follows Marsha Blovotnik, an angry Leftie Jewish Lesbian whose sister Janice shows...
Artists Repertory Theatre
128 NW 11th AvePortland, OR 97209
Upcoming Shows
Slay
A world premiere play by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Melory Mirashrafi, Slay is a quick-witted dark comedy about the absurd nature of contemporary times...
The Perfect Immigrant
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...
Eulogy, or How to Plan Your Own Funeral (and have fun doing it!)
Written by Brendan Healy, this warm, heartfelt comedy about mortality, survival, and joie de vivre follows Healy, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness as...
Review: STORM LARGE MAKES IT HOME at Portland Center Stage
Storm Large is back, and her new cabaret memoir explores what makes a home. Like all of us, she's still working it out, and the show is as raw and funny as her voice is powerful.…
Review: THE ROOMMATE at Profile Theatre
Profile Theatre's THE ROOMMATE is a dark comedy that surprises, moves, and lingers, with knockout performances by Gail Dartez and Eleanor O'Brien. One week left, don't miss it.…
Review: ARBUS & WEST at Triangle Productions
Performances that draw you in from the first exchange and hold you, off-balance, until the lights go down. ARBUS & WEST at Triangle Productions a must see about how women see themselves and others. On stage now through June 20th.…
Review: MAMMA MIA! at Keller Auditorium
A jukebox musical based on the music of ABBA, MAMMA MIA! knows exactly what it is and makes absolutely no apologies for it. It’s fun!…
Review: KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage
What did our critic think of KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage?…
Review: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at Broadway Rose
With music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics by Marshall Barer, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is a comedic musical romp based on the fairy tale 'The Princess and the Pea.' The kingdom is in crisis: Queen Aggravain has decreed that no one may marry until her son, the sweet but hapless Prince Dauntless, weds first. A…
Review: X at Third Rail Repertory Theatre
X is not the type of show you sit back and enjoy. It will put you on edge, drag you into dark places, and leave you thinking for days. If you're the kind of theatergoer who considers that a feature rather than a bug, this one's for you.…
Review: THE PAVILLION at 100 Lives Repertory
Now onstage at 100 Lives Repertory, THE PAVILION is a play about time – the Narrator will tell you so at the outset. It’s also a play about scope. Craig Wright's poetic script opens with the creation of the universe and narrows, with breathtaking precision, to the story of two people at their 20…
Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at Portland Playhouse
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…
Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS at The Canon Shakespeare Company
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…
Past Shows
Apple Hunters!
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...
Racecar Racecar Racecar
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...
The Event!
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...
Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings
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...
True Story
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...
American Fast
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...
Mercury Festival 2022
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...
Today Is My Birthday
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...
The Carlalogues
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,...
The Vertical City
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
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...
Magellanica
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 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...
The Revolutionists
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...
Teenage Dick
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,...
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
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...
Everybody
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,...
Skeleton Crew
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...
I and You
Two teens – a sick and snarky girl who hates poetry, and a sweet and sporty boy who just wants to get his class work...
The Thanksgiving Play
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...
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
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?...
Between Riverside and Crazy
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...
The Holler Sessions
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...
Magellanica
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...
The Humans
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...
Caught
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
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...
They, Themself and Schmerm (Frontier Series)
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...
The Importance of Being Earnest
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 Talented Ones
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...
Frontier Series - Rodney King
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 -...
Feathers and Teeth
The fairytale concoction of teen angst and devastating loss makes for a grisly good time in this crackling new “thrilledy” — a stew of dark...
Frontier Series - Winners and Losers
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...
Marjorie Prime
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...
A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
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...
Frontier Series - Future Show
“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...
American Hero
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...
Trevor
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,...
ITHAKA
Morrison Stage: - Andrea Stolowitz; dir: Gemma Whelan....
Ten Chimneys
Alder Stage: - Jeffrey Hatcher; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....
The Gin Game
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...
The Invisible Hand
Morrison Stage: - Ayad Akhtar....
Red Herring
“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...
The Lost Boy
Morrison Stage: - Susan Mach; dir: Allen Nause....
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Performathon 2026! Ten Fifteen Productions (7/18-7/18) |
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THE BIG ONE-OH! Bridgetown Musical Theatre (8/01-8/02) |
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An Evening with Chris Thile: Master of the Mandolin Reed College, Kaul Auditorium (7/10-7/10) |
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Audrey Hobert Roseland Theater (8/11-8/11) |
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Crossing Borders: Brahms Piano Quartet Reed College, Kaul Auditorium (7/11-7/11) |
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Crossing Borders: Brahms Piano Quartet Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (7/09-7/09) |
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NEW@NIGHT: George Takei’s “Lost Freedom: A Memory” Alberta Rose Theatre (7/08-7/08) |
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NEW@NIGHT: Across the Americas The Old Church Concert Hall (7/15-7/15) |
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Voices of Our Land: Dvořák “American” Quintet Reed College, Kaul Auditorium (6/29-6/29) |
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Souvenir: Tchaikovsky Sextet PSU, College of the Arts, Lincoln Performance Hall (7/12-7/12) |