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...
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....
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....
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. ...
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!...
by Krista Garver - March 04, 2025
SAPIENCE is an innovative, imperfect exploration of communication that celebrates the diverse ways beings can understand each other....
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....
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.
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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....
by A.A. Cristi - November 13, 2024
Portland Opera will present THE JULIET LETTERS, a new collaboration between Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Morrison Stage: - Andrea Stolowitz; dir: Gemma Whelan....
Alder Stage: - Jeffrey Hatcher; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....
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 ...
Morrison Stage: - Ayad Akhtar....
“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 ...
Morrison Stage: - Susan Mach; dir: Allen Nause....
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It's Not All About me
triangle productions (1/29 - 2/14) | |
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Avenue Q
Stumptown Stages (3/13 - 4/12) | |
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Treasure Island, A Musical Adaptation
Metropolitan Performing Arts (4/18 - 4/18) | ||
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Christmas In Christmasville: A Christmas Play about Christmas Movies
Twilight Theater Company (12/4 - 12/21) | |
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Edgar Meyer, Tessa Lark & Joshua Roman
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (1/10 - 1/10) | |
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Bee Bee's Cabaret Supper Club: Solstice Saturnalia
Hoku Events on Madison (12/21 - 12/21) | |
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The Prom
Stumptown Stages (4/24 - 5/17) | |
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