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ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE


Portland, OR

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ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE’S (Artists Rep or ART) mission is to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks. The organization is committed to local artists and features a company of Resident Artists and professionals of varied theatre disciplines, who are a driving force behind Artists Rep’s creative output and identity.


Review: THE WINTER'S TALE at Salt And Sage


by Krista Garver - December 05, 2025

Shakespeare's THE WINTER’S TALE is notoriously difficult to do well. One of the Bard's later 'problem plays,' it essentially presents two different theatrical worlds: the first half is a tragedy driven by King Leontes' sudden, irrational jealousy toward his pregnant wife Hermione and his best friend...

Profile Theatre Opens 2025–26 Season With Jen Silverman’s WITCH At The Armory


by A.A. Cristi - October 06, 2025

Profile Theatre will launch its 2025–26 season with Witch, the subversive and spellbinding play by Jen Silverman, running October 16–November 2, 2025 at The Ellyn Bye Studio at The Armory....

Val Landrum Stars in 21 NEW MESSAGES by Spark Plug Theatre Collective at Edinburgh Fringe


by A.A. Cristi - July 09, 2025

Spark Plug Theatre Collective will bring its acclaimed new work 21 New Messages to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, following a Portland encore at Artists Repertory Theatre on July 18 and 19....

THE BED TRICK Included in Artists Repertory Theatre's 43rd Season


by Emmy Rice - June 14, 2025

Artists Repertory Theatre (ART) has announced its 43rd season– marking its second year back home at 1515 SW Morrison St. Artists Rep’s 2025/26 lineup continues to showcase vibrant local voices from our own backyard, featuring the work of three talented Pacific Northwest playwrights. ...

HERO Theatre Announces Commission of Contemporary Translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream Sponsored by Play On Shakespeare!


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 29, 2025

HERO Theatre has commissioned a new translation of William Shakespeare's beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Learn more about the upcoming production here!...

Review: SAPIENCE at Artists Repertory Theatre


by Krista Garver - March 04, 2025

SAPIENCE is an innovative, imperfect exploration of communication that celebrates the diverse ways beings can understand each other....

Review: SAMSARA at Profile Theatre


by Krista Garver - January 30, 2025

Lauren Yee's SAMSARA will make you laugh, cringe, and think about its implications long after you leave the theatre. If you like challenging, conversation-starting theatre, this show is absolutely not to be missed....

Profile Theatre Presents SAMSARA By Lauren Yee


by A.A. Cristi - December 12, 2024

Profile ushers in its 2024-2025 Lauren Yee Season with Samsara, a play about what to expect when expecting someone else’s child. ...

Review: Satire Aplenty in Moonbox Productions' THE THANKSGIVING PLAY


by R. Scott Reedy - December 09, 2024

Thanksgiving pageants – complete with Pilgrims, Native Americans, and oddly over-stuffed turkeys – were once the order of the day at elementary schools, with centuries-old precepts presented as truths....

Elvis Costello's THE JULIET LETTERS Begins Portland Opera


by A.A. Cristi - November 13, 2024

Portland Opera will present THE JULIET LETTERS, a new collaboration between Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. ...

Past Shows

The Event!
The Event!
10/13 - 11/10/2024


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 ...

True Story
True Story
5/6 - 6/4/2023


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
American Fast
1/4 - 1/29/2023


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 ...

Mercury Festival 2022
Mercury Festival 2022
6/1 - 6/5/2022


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
Today Is My Birthday
7/1 - 12/31/2021


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
The Carlalogues
5/24 - 8/20/2021


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
The Vertical City
4/24 - 7/30/2021


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
2/27 - 7/23/2021


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
Magellanica
9/27 - 6/30/2021


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
1/24 - 6/30/2021


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
The Revolutionists
4/28 - 5/26/2019


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
Teenage Dick
1/6 - 2/3/2019


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
Everybody
11/25 - 12/30/2018


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
Skeleton Crew
9/2 - 9/30/2018


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
I and You
5/20 - 6/17/2018


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
The Thanksgiving Play
4/1 - 4/29/2018


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
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
4/12 - 4/15/2018


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
The Holler Sessions
3/8 - 3/11/2018


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
Magellanica
1/25 - 2/18/2018


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
The Humans
11/19 - 12/17/2017


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
Caught
10/1 - 10/29/2017


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
9/3 - 10/1/2017


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 Talented Ones
4/25 - 5/21/2017


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
Feathers and Teeth
3/7 - 4/2/2017


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
Marjorie Prime
2/7 - 3/5/2017


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
American Hero
10/4 - 10/30/2016


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
Trevor
9/6 - 10/9/2016


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
5/28 - 6/30/2013


Morrison Stage: - Andrea Stolowitz; dir: Gemma Whelan....

Ten Chimneys
4/23 - 5/26/2013


Alder Stage: - Jeffrey Hatcher; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....

The Gin Game
3/26 - 4/28/2013


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
3/26 - 4/28/2013


Morrison Stage: - Ayad Akhtar....

Red Herring
2/12 - 3/17/2013


“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
1/8 - 2/10/2013


Morrison Stage: - Susan Mach; dir: Allen Nause....

Race
4/24 - 5/27/2012

Videos


Bee Bee's Cabaret Supper Club: Solstice Saturnalia in Portland Bee Bee's Cabaret Supper Club: Solstice Saturnalia
Hoku Events on Madison (12/21 - 12/21)
A Beautiful Noise in Portland A Beautiful Noise
Keller Auditorium (1/6 - 1/11)
Pippin in Portland Pippin
Stumptown Stages (1/23 - 2/15)
The Princess and The Goblin King in Portland The Princess and The Goblin King
Metropolitan Performing Arts (3/14 - 3/14)
Footloose in Portland Footloose
Magenta Theater (4/18 - 4/18)
A Gift to Remember in Portland A Gift to Remember
Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre (12/6 - 12/21)
Avenue Q in Portland Avenue Q
Stumptown Stages (3/13 - 4/12)
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