“An Iliad is pure theater: shocking, glorious, primal and deeply satisfying.” —Time Out New York An empty space. Enter the Poet. He has a story to tell—one he’s been telling for thousands of years, drifting through countless taverns and across countless stages. He invokes the...
“Fiery, funny and provocative.” — The Guardian Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play! In 1970s Ohio, a young journalist named Lizzie brings together a diverse group of women to meet at their local rec center. Once a week, they gather in the...
"Thought-provoking and soul-stirring. . . Ingeniously woven." —The Observer On a rainy night, an octet of strangers gather in a church basement to share their stories—no phones allowed. We are at a support group meeting for internet addicts, where the participants will plumb the...
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The circus has rolled into town! The national tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, based on Sara Gruen’s 2006 best-selling novel, has pitched its big top in the Keller Auditorium, arriving with all of the promised spectacle. With a book by Rick Elice and music and lyrics by Pigpen Theatre Co., this musica…
Bag & Baggage Productions' performance of Neil Simon's classic comedy, Barefoot in the Park, is an absolute delight with top-notch local talent, and a beautifully staged American classic.…
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.…
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Anne Zander's comedy about adolescence returns for two nights only, closing weekend of CoHo ClownFest. Jessica, played by Zander, is a completely ridiculous, completely vulnerable teen locked in her room with nothing but 90s hits and a 27-year old retainer. The show is an...
From the Ground Up, Portland's generative feminist arts incubator founded by Katherine Murphy Lewis, celebrates its tenth anniversary with its largest festival to date. The festival brings together twelve artists across performance, dance, theater, clowning, and photography...
Before the After is a dance-text-media work by Rachel Slater wrestling with what has been left behind. Slater is an interdisciplinary artist whose dance films have screened in 25 countries. The piece is part of the 2026 Artist Residency cohort presenting new 20-30 minute works.
BIG BABY is a solo clown performance by Australian-born, Portland-based comedic performer Emily June Newton about caregiving, growing up, and the impossible questions adulthood asks. Newton arrives onstage in a wicker basket, bibbed and dressed for the occasion, and must figure...
Bounce is a memoir by Maia McCarthy told through the language of the bounce — wet rubber balls on muddy grass, crisp tennis balls on a swept court, an apple on vinyl. The piece is part of the 2026 Artist Residency cohort presenting new 20-30 minute works.
Chemo Brain is a one-act comedy set at 4 a.m. between a cancer patient and her dog, written by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Kathleen Cahill. The work emerged from Cahill's second bout with the disease and her search for writing about cancer that felt true to the experience. The...
Echoes is a theatrical investigation by Kate Sanderson Holly of a 1974 family tragedy, drawn from a manuscript hidden in a closet for forty-five years before reaching the artist's hands. The piece is part of the 2026 Artist Residency cohort presenting new 20-30 minute works.
First Times is a blend of humor, movement, and Slacker-era memories by Laura Cannon that asks heavy questions and answers none of them. Cannon is a 2023 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellow. The piece is part of the inaugural Liminal Series, featuring 45-minute works...
Grief and All the Things is a deconstruction of the five stages of grief by Rob Aley, blending love, laughter, and empathetic profanity. The piece is part of the 2026 Artist Residency cohort presenting new 20-30 minute works.
Hoy es la Envidia de los Muertos / Now is the Envy of the Dead is a bilingual excavation of grief, intergenerational trauma, and Peruvian myth by S Franco Recavarren, written in the aftermath of the artist's mother's death. Recavarren is a Sephardic Peruvian-American performance...
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Join us for the 2026–2027 Season Portland Center Stage at The Armory (9/27-6/27) |
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Bad Seed Twilight Theater Company (10/15-11/01) |
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COMMUNION Portland Center Stage (10/10-10/11) |
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Hurricane Diane Ten Fifteen Productions (10/02-10/17) |
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LIZZIE Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre (10/16-11/08) |
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You Can’t Take It With You Lakewood Theatre Company (9/11-10/18) |
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Bluey’s Big Play Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (10/12-10/12) |
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Mamma Mia! BJCC Concert Hall (11/17-11/22) |
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Anthropology 100 Lives Repertory (10/23-11/15) |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue Paramount Theater Ashland (11/04-11/04) |
