PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE

by BWW Awards - December 08, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

by Krista Garver - October 16, 2025

Dominique Morisseau's PARADISE BLUE, now running at Portland Playhouse, is an intense, beautifully acted noir drama about community, legacy, and the forces that tear both apart. Set at the Paradise Club in Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood in 1949, this jazz-infused play opens with a jolt — a trum...

by A.A. Cristi - July 17, 2025

Oregon Children’s Theatre (OCT) will present Impulse to Give, a one-night-only live improv comedy show and fundraising event, on Saturday, August 2, 2025, at Portland Playhouse....

by Stephi Wild - June 13, 2025

The Boston Arts Academy and Wheelock Family Theatre will continue the sweeping nine-play Ufot Family Cycle with the world premiere of, Kufre n’ Quay, at the Boston Arts Academy this summer. ...

by Emmy Rice - May 24, 2025

Demons on their lunch break. Virgil as a shady tour guide. A tenants association meeting as torture, food and sex combined in unholy ways, and confusion about which door leads to the blood pool....

by Krista Garver - May 17, 2025

Portland Playhouse's latest production, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, offers audiences a complex meditation on identity and belonging. As the second play chronologically in Wilson's Century Cycle, this work captures a pivotal moment in African American history during the Great Migratio...

by Cara Joy David - May 19, 2025

Theater makers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it is no surprise that the vast majority of the over forty artistic leaders I spoke to in the last two weeks believed they would find a way to survive even without promised National Endowment for the Arts funding. But it won’t be easy....

by Cara Joy David - May 19, 2025

Theater makers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it is no surprise that the vast majority of the over forty artistic leaders I spoke to in the last two weeks believed they would find a way to survive even without promised National Endowment for the Arts funding. But it won’t be easy....

by A.A. Cristi - May 08, 2025

Just a day before opening Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Portland Playhouse lost $25,000 in NEA funding—but their community rallied, replacing the funds in 36 hours. Now, they’re launching Oregon Arts Rising, a statewide GoFundMe to recover $590,000 cut from arts organizations across Oregon....