PORTLAND CENTER STAGE AT THE ARMORY

by Krista Garver - April 13, 2026

This year’s Fertile Ground Festival started last Friday. As in years past, I’ll be posting short reviews of everything I see. Here’s the first set....

by Dawn Sellers - April 12, 2026

You have a limited time to see this show, and you don’t want to miss it. Get yourself to 21ten, whether you walk, drive, or fly and join the mission. MURDER ON THE MISSION TO MARS!...

by Dawn Sellers - April 11, 2026

Stefan Feuerherdt brings a fresh and thoughtful voice to a timeless story, weaving together questions of morality, mortality, and the weight of others' expectations into something deeply human and moving in TETHERED, a Fertile Ground new work....

by Krista Garver - April 08, 2026

What did our critic think of APPLE HUNTERS! at Artists Rep?...

by Krista Garver - April 07, 2026

There's a particular kind of melancholy that settles over you like a damp wool coat: heavy, familiar, not entirely unpleasant, often surprisingly funny. John Patrick Shanley's Tony-nominated play OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, now running at Corrib Theatre under Holly Griffith's direction, is soaked in it....

by Dawn Sellers - April 06, 2026

Four Southern women, one unforgettable night out, Savannah Sipping Society is the show your soul needs right now. On stage now at Triangle Productions....

by Krista Garver - April 01, 2026

Boublil and Schönberg's LES MISÉRABLES stormed back to the Keller Auditorium last night. I went in wondering how a show about a failed anti-monarchist uprising in 1832 might land differently now, on the heels of the third national 'No Kings' protest, than it did when it was last here in 2018. ...

by Krista Garver - March 30, 2026

DEAR EVAN HANSEN, now running at Broadway Rose, is a multiple Tony Award-winning musical about an anxious, depressed, and profoundly lonely high schooler who gets swept into an extraordinary situation when a classmate named Connor Murphy dies by suicide. ...

by Dawn Sellers - March 25, 2026

What did our critic think of ALMA DE LUNA at HART Theatre? Invisible Friends Productions presents a World Premiere production written by local playwright David Fuks and directed by Humberto Mugnai, now playing at Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre....

by Dawn Sellers - March 22, 2026

What did our critic think of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Twilight Theater?...