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Imago Theatre

17 SE 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97214
Portland, OR



Review: STORM LARGE MAKES IT HOME at Portland Center Stage


by Krista Garver - June 18, 2026

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....

Review: THE ROOMMATE at Profile Theatre


by Krista Garver - June 17, 2026

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....

Review: ARBUS & WEST at Triangle Productions


by Dawn Sellers - June 07, 2026

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....

Review: MAMMA MIA! at Keller Auditorium


by Krista Garver - June 03, 2026

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!...

Review: KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage


by Krista Garver - June 02, 2026

What did our critic think of KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage?...

Review: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at Broadway Rose


by Krista Garver - May 29, 2026

With music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics by Marshall Barer, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is a comedic musical romp based on the fairy tale 'The Princess and the Pea.' The kingdom is in crisis: Queen Aggravain has decreed that no one may marry until her son, the sweet but hapless Prince Dauntless, weds first. A...

Review: X at Third Rail Repertory Theatre


by Krista Garver - May 28, 2026

X is not the type of show you sit back and enjoy. It will put you on edge, drag you into dark places, and leave you thinking for days. If you're the kind of theatergoer who considers that a feature rather than a bug, this one's for you....

Review: THE PAVILLION at 100 Lives Repertory


by Krista Garver - May 20, 2026

Now onstage at 100 Lives Repertory, THE PAVILION is a play about time – the Narrator will tell you so at the outset. It’s also a play about scope. Craig Wright's poetic script opens with the creation of the universe and narrows, with breathtaking precision, to the story of two people at their 20...

Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at Portland Playhouse


by Krista Garver - May 07, 2026

When I saw Portland Playhouse's 2025–2026 season announced, the show I was most irrationally excited about was THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL. I’m far from an expert on the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, but I've watched enough episodes to have completely fallen for the little yellow sponge in square pa...

Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS at The Canon Shakespeare Company


by Krista Garver - May 07, 2026

You don't often get the chance to see DOCTOR FAUSTUS on stage. Christopher Marlowe's early 1600s masterwork is the ur-text of the Faustian bargain, the template for everything from the musical Damn Yankees to the Al Pacino-Keanu Reeves film The Devil's Advocate. And yet it rarely gets produced. Than...

Past Shows

Nice People

Apr 10 – Apr 19, 2026

Portland’s Premier Absurdist Returns at Imago with Nice PeopleApril 10 - 19Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30Sundays at 2:00 Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Avenueimagotheatre.com503-231-9581TICKETShttps://onthestage.tickets/show/imago-theatre/68a0cc38697b7810063af4d0Tickets also available at...

Geography of a Horse Dreamer

Geography of a Horse Dreamer

Feb 13 – Mar 1, 2026

Geography of a Horse DreamerBy Sam ShepardMystery, Satire, Fantasy, Parody, Comedic, Horrific"Imago’s remounting rescues a thrilling thoroughbred of a work sadly stabled for far too...

ZooZoo

ZooZoo

Dec 19 – Jan 4, 2026

ZOOZOODecember 19th through January 4th at Imago TheatreZOOZOOHaving toured everywhere from Los Angeles to Chicago, from New York City to Iowa City, Imago's crowd-pleasing ZooZoo...

Design for Living

Design for Living

Oct 10 – Oct 26, 2025

Design for Living – Champagne Kisses from a Kinky Love Triangle, at Imago TheatreOctober 10 – 26Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30Sundays at 2:00Imago Theatre, 17 SE...

Happyness (The Wrecking Ball)

Happyness (The Wrecking Ball)

May 16 – May 31, 2025

Imago Co-Founder Carol Triffle premieres her newest show: Happyness (The Wrecking Ball)May 16 – 31Friday and Saturday at 7:30Sunday at 2:00 Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Avenueimagotheatre.com TICKETS https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/imago-theatre/670ef4d1f392d26c3b9ca2b4 Tickets...

Salome

Salome

Apr 11 – Apr 27, 2025

SALOMEBy Oscar Wilde Adapted by Drew Pisarra Live at Imago TheatreAPRIL 11 to 27, Fri/Sat 7:30, Sun at 2:00Recommended for Ages 16 and OlderTickets $30TICKETS:onthestage.tickets/imago-theatreImago Theatreimagotheatre.com17 SE...

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

Jan 17 – Feb 2, 2025

Imago Theatre revives Tennessee Williams's iconic tragedy, A Streetcar Named DesireJanuary 17 – February 2Friday and Saturday at 7:30Sunday at 2:00 Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Avenueimagotheatre.com TICKETS https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/imago-theatre/670eb5a5cadebc0f5799d72f Tickets...

ZooZoo

ZooZoo

Dec 13 – Jan 1, 2025

ZOOZOODecember 13th through January 1st at Imago TheatreZOOZOOHaving toured everywhere from Los Angeles to Chicago, from New York City to Iowa City, Imago's crowd-pleasing ZooZoo...

Mission Gibbons

Mission Gibbons

Apr 12 – Apr 27, 2024

Mission GibbonsApril 12th thru April 27thAt Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th AvenueTICKETS at imagotheatretickets.comImago Co-Founder Carol Triffle premieres her newest show: Mission Gibbons The time has...

Port Authority

Port Authority

Mar 8 – Mar 24, 2024

Port Authority by Conor McPhersonWhat if the one who got away, got away three times?With Conor McPherson's Port Authority, you might ask yourself, “What the heck do...

ZooZoo

ZooZoo

Dec 8 – Jan 1, 2024

Imago is bringing back to Portland its globe-trotting production ZooZoo this holiday season. Bugeyes, hippos with insomnia, arrogant anteaters, introverted frogs, paradoxical polar bears, acrobatic...

Where's Bruno?

Where's Bruno?

May 12 – May 27, 2023

WORLD PREMIERE! Live at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97214May 12 to 27, Thursdays – Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., with one Sunday...

Lumen Odyssey

Lumen Odyssey

Aug 26 – Sep 17, 2022

World Premiere by Imago Theatre August 26 - September 17, Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with one Sunday matinee on August 28 at 2:00...

VOICEOVER

VOICEOVER

Jul 22 – Jul 30, 2022

AN ORIGINAL WORK BY IMAGO THEATRE WITH PLAYWRIGHT DREW PISARRASix shows only! Live at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97214July 22 -...

Julia's Place

Julia's Place

Jun 3 – Jun 18, 2022

Imago's writer/director Jerry Mouawad entered the world of Beckett when he opened To Fly Again (2018), creating a Mad Max world infused with clown and...

Pebble

Pebble

May 10 – May 25, 2019

Pebble is an outsider - or an artist until one day, a mysterious visitor comes and things begin to unravel through song, dance, and pills...

To Fly Again

To Fly Again

Mar 22 – Apr 6, 2019

Mad Max, Ionesco and Beckett are inspirations for Mouawads desert playground where "there is nothing to be done." A revival of last springs smash hit,...

Leonard Cohen is Dead

Leonard Cohen is Dead

Mar 1 – Mar 16, 2019

Crime is acceptable and dead singers lead the world. Physical, explosive and with the mania of a Richard Foreman wild universe, Jerry Mouawad's newest original...

Dear Marna

Dear Marna

Jan 18 – Jan 26, 2019

Marna's boyfriend is a philanderer.Her best friend is an enigmatic camera man who listens about as well as her philandering boyfriend, and worst of all,...

Evening at the Talk House

Evening at the Talk House

Jan 2 – Jan 9, 2019

THIS SHOW HAS BEEN INDEFINITLY POSTPONED EVENING AT THE TALK HOUSE by Wallace Shawn Directed by Jerry Mouawad THIS SHOW HAS BEEN INDEFINITLY POSTPONED...

ZooZoo

ZooZoo

Dec 7 – Jan 6, 2019

Premiering this Holiday season in Imago’s acclaimed production of ZooZoo will be “The Magic Cloth”- A new work created by Imago and designed by Michael...

Title and Deed

Title and Deed

Aug 10 – Aug 25, 2018

IMAGO THEATRE PRESENTS TITLE AND DEED by Will Eno "Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart Generation" The NY Times Starring Todd Van Voris Directed by...

Fallout

Fallout

Jun 1 – Jun 9, 2018

Carol Triffle, Portland’s premier absurdist playwright, has penned a darkly stirring comedy called Fallout. When three characters are trapped in a fallout shelter, their identities...

To Fly Again

To Fly Again

May 4 – May 12, 2018

A zany group of clown musicians and a clan of clay tossed dancers roam a barren land in this new Imago work. The clowns’ thoughts...

FROGZ

FeaturedFROGZ

Dec 8 – Jan 7, 2018

IMAGO THEATRE presents the return of FROGZ by Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad FROGZ is Imago Theatre’s signature work. It has been described as Cirque...

Hotel Gone

Hotel Gone

Dec 14 – Dec 23, 2017

Choreographer Jerry Mouawad pushes, pulls and shoves five characters into a hotel lobby where identities shift, love is uncertain, and souls search for substance. Check-in...

The Reunion

The Reunion

Jun 9 – Jun 24, 2017

John, her husband, is continually ignored. Delores, his wife, tells all she meets that she’s dying. The soon-to-be-gone and the invisible, Carol Triffle’s motifs, are...

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Matthew Knight Arena (10/06-10/06)
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Disney's Newsies in Oregon Disney's Newsies
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue in Oregon Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue
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