Review: ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS at Portland Playhouse
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. ...
Review: GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER at Imago Theatre
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...
Review: RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR at Artists Rep
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....
Review: THE BODY'S MIDNIGHT at 100 Lives Repertory
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...
Review: YOU STUPID DARKNESS! at 21ten Theatre
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...
Review: THE WIZ at Keller Auditorium
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. ...
Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Portland Center Stage
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....
Review: IN CLAY at Broadway Rose
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...
Review: TIGER STYLE! at Profile Theatre
by Krista Garver - January 27, 2026
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Review: NERVOUS LAUGHTER at 21ten Theatre
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
WITCH
Oct 16 – Nov 2, 2025
Profile Theatre opens its 2025-2026 season with Jen Silverman's WITCH, a modern retelling of a Jacobean drama that explores the worth of souls and hope...
Samsara
Jan 23 – Feb 9, 2025
Samsara, a play by Lauren Yee, explores the complexities of modern-day colonialism through the story of suburban couple Katie and Craig, who hire surrogate mother...
Hot 'N' Throbbing
Nov 4 – Jun 20, 2021
On November 4, Profile Theatre will release the second audio play in their 2020-2021 season. Paula Vogels Hot N Throbbing is the story of a...
Las Meninas
Dec 2 – Jan 5, 2021
On December 2, Profile Theatre will release the third and final audio play of their Fall 2020 season. Set in the court of Louis XIV,...
Mlima's Tale (Audio Play)
Oct 7 – Nov 4, 2020
What deals will we make to get what we most desire? Meet Mlima, last of the big-tusker elephants in Kenya, trapped by the underground international...
Sweat
Jan 16 – Feb 2, 2020
Commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. In the industrial town of Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of friends spend their...
Ruined & Mother Courage (Concert Stagings)
Dec 4 – Dec 8, 2019
Profile Theatre presents concert stagings of RUINED, Lynn Nottages Pulitzer Prize-winning play alongside Brechts modernist classic that inspired it. The same cast of 11 powerhouse...
Baltimore Waltz
Oct 16 – Nov 3, 2019
Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel won an Obie for Best New Play in 1991. When Anna, an unmarried school-teacher in the prime of life, is...
Let Me Down Easy
May 16 – Jun 16, 2019
Anna Deveare Smith's emotional powerhouse of a play that investigates human resiliency, healthcare and a tendency in American culture to shy away from mortality. Smith...
(Un)Conditional
Feb 8 – Jan 17, 2019
(Un)Conditional features real stories told by the people who live them about living with a chronic condition or caring for someone who does. The stories,...
In the Wake
Nov 29 – Dec 16, 2018
In the Wake (2010) by Lisa Kron It’s Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends...
Lisa Kron In Conversation
Dec 9
Come meet the theatre artist who Ben Brantley called "the best stand-up memoirist of the American theater". Featured playwright Lisa Kron is traveling to Portland...
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