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 up three minutes early to Shabbos dinner. Just before her sister arrives, a mysterious ancestor gives Marsha...
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 and the complicated nature of pet ownership. Hossam, a recently fired arts journalist, and Rachel, an optometrist, discover...
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 master's degree in Dublin, as he navigates migration, family expectations, racism, and the growing distance between...
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 a baby and was expected to die by age 5, then 8, then 16, and beyond. He invites audiences to a memorial service like no...
NEWSIES is a big, joyful, high-energy dance spectacular at the theatre with a message about how to successfully stand up to corporate greed. Recommended for all.…
Andrea Parson's solo show turns a very personal search for love into a funny, engaging, and highly relatable journey, whether or not you’ve ever stood at the altar of your own expectations about finding the one.…
Three young women in Louisiana in 1943 whose lives are upended when a Life magazine reporter arrives to tell their story and is changed by it herself. Funny, warm, and quietly devastating, a tribute to female friendship and the search for self-worth.…
Part interactive, part clowning, part not-so-distant dystopian future imagining, Julia Bray’s new solo show LOBOTOMOMMY, performed as part of the 2026 CoHo Residency Program, is dark comedy at its sharpest.…
Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter, this production by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) tackles the slippery uncertainty of how much gets lost, or invented, in transmission.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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!…
What did our critic think of KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage?…
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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? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen? “A playful, enigmatic and haunting solo show by the Iranian writer...
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 wife’s wheelchair over a motley crew of housemates, he righteously, tenaciously, holds out for a police department settlement...
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 experience" - Culturebot 7:30 pm
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 there really is a hole in the sky. In the darkest, coldest, most dangerous place on Earth, eight imperfect souls are trapped...
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 new digs with a fancy Thanksgiving dinner on paper plates and undertake their holiday ritual of smashing the peppermint...
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 rigorous intellect and an impish spirit, Chen presents a disconcerting philosophical puzzle that...
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 statement on race in America today.” Riffing off a 19th Century hit set on a Louisiana plantation, Jacobs-Jenkins offers a...
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 laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll question what bathroom to use. 7:30pm
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 Cecily don’t care who they marry as long as his name is Earnest (so manly and respectable!). Jack...
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 Patrick connives to push them over the edge. In this surprisingly funny dark comedy, trouble erupts one night when bad choices...
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The Taming of the Shrew Oregon Shakespeare Festival (6/05-10/11) |
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