by Krista Garver - February 19, 2026
Portland Playhouse is not known for playing it safe, so it's fitting that their latest production centers on a woman, Anna Campbell, who built her entire legend on one audacious act. ...
by Dawn Sellers - February 16, 2026
Geography of a Horse Dreamer by Sam Shepard wrestles with artistic value, exploitation, power, and control. You will never dream the same again. On stage at Imago Theatre through March 1, 2026...
by Krista Garver - February 12, 2026
In Kallan Dana’s RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, a father (Anthony Green Caloca) and his adult daughter (Jerilyn Armstrong) head off on a cross-country drive from New York to California to clean out a storage unit....
by Krista Garver - February 11, 2026
It took about 10 seconds for tears to well up in my eyes during the opening monologue of THE BODY'S MIDNIGHT. They stayed there, occasionally spilling over, for the rest of Tira Palmquist's exquisite play. This show is just the second production by 100 Lives Repertory, but it firmly establishes them...
by Krista Garver - February 11, 2026
How do we carry on when everything is falling apart? In YOU STUPID DARKNESS!, Sam Steiner's funny and touching dramedy now running at 21ten Theatre, four volunteers spend their Tuesday nights answering calls at Brightline, a listening service for people who need someone to tell them everything is go...
by Krista Garver - February 04, 2026
For years, I'd written off THE WIZ. My only prior experience with the show had been a disappointing production that left me confused about why the original had swept the Tony Awards in 1975, winning Best Musical and Best Original Score among other honors. ...
by Krista Garver - January 29, 2026
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard, or heard an entire packed audience laugh so hard. In a world that feels very heavy, Portland Center Stage's production of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG offers something we desperately need: two hours of pure, unrelenting fun....
by Krista Garver - January 29, 2026
There aren't many full-length one-person musicals, which makes IN CLAY particularly intriguing even before you discover how exquisite it is. This fairly new musical by Jack Miles and Rebecca Simmonds excavates the true story of Marie-Berthe Cazin, a French painter and sculptor in the late 19th and e...
by Krista Garver - January 27, 2026
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by Dawn Sellers - January 13, 2026
In times like these laughter is not a luxury. It is a lifeline. Peter Lundquist’s Nervous Laughter reminds you of that as an invitation to exhale and laugh even when life feels heavy. Come for the laughs, stay for the performance, and leave a little lighter. On stage through January 24th....
Past Shows
When Gertie receives a fishing pole from her husband on their 50th wedding anniversary—instead of the ring she’d been promised—she begins to consider drastic measures....
On Christmas Eve, a snowstorm forces a train of travelers to take unexpected shelter in a small, out-of-the-way New Hampshire depot. Stranded and frustrated, each...
Recipient of the 2005 Tony Award® for Best Play and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius,...
Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love...
The death of a much loved husband prompts a group of ordinary women in a small Yorkshire Women's Institute to do an extraordinary thing. Blasting...
When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going...
In this delightful companion play to Miss Bennet, Gunderson and Melcon once again bring Austen’s beloved characters to the stage for a yuletide sequel to Pride and...
Synopsis: This dramatization captures the charm and excitement of L.M. Montgomery's enduring classic about an orphan girl, Anne Shirley, from her first encounter with her...
Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre presents the World Premiere of: The "Amazing" Séance Sisters ~ by April Aasheim ~ Directed by Harrison Butler ~ 9/7/2024 - 9/22/2024Synopsis: Set in 1862 during the...
Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre Presents: Light Opera of Portland's Iolanthe by W.S. Gilbert, Music by Arthur Sullivan. Directed by Laurence Cox. July 19th, 2024 through August 4th, 2024...
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