Profile Theatre
216 NW 13th AvePortland, Oregon 97209
Upcoming Shows
Review: DISNEY'S NEWSIES at Broadway Rose Theater Company
NEWSIES is a big, joyful, high-energy dance spectacular at the theatre with a message about how to successfully stand up to corporate greed. Recommended for all.…
Review: THE ONE at The Boiler Room
Andrea Parson's solo show turns a very personal search for love into a funny, engaging, and highly relatable journey, whether or not you’ve ever stood at the altar of your own expectations about finding the one.…
Review: THE COVER OF LIFE at Mask & Mirror
Three young women in Louisiana in 1943 whose lives are upended when a Life magazine reporter arrives to tell their story and is changed by it herself. Funny, warm, and quietly devastating, a tribute to female friendship and the search for self-worth.…
Review: LOBOTOMOMMY at CoHo Theatre
Part interactive, part clowning, part not-so-distant dystopian future imagining, Julia Bray’s new solo show LOBOTOMOMMY, performed as part of the 2026 CoHo Residency Program, is dark comedy at its sharpest.…
Review: TELEPHONE at Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter, this production by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) tackles the slippery uncertainty of how much gets lost, or invented, in transmission.…
Review: STORM LARGE MAKES IT HOME at Portland Center Stage
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
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
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
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
What did our critic think of KRISTINA WONG, #FOODBANKINFLUENCER at Portland Center Stage?…
Past Shows
13 total · showing 1–10
WITCH
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 in desperate times. The play follows a charming devil who appears in the village of Edmonton to strike deals for residents'...
Samsara
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 Suraiya from Ahmedabad, India. As the trio navigates their insecurities and hopes across continents, they are...
Hot 'N' Throbbing
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 single mom who writes feminist erotic films. As she balances the demands of her family with the creative process, the language of porn...
Las Meninas
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, Las Meninas tells the probably true story of the Spanish Queen Marie-Therese, and her affair with Nabo Sensugali, a Little Person from Dahomey...
Mlima's Tale (Audio Play)
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 ivory market. As he follows a trail of greed and desire as old as trade itself, Mlima takes us on a journey through memory and...
Sweat
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 days on the factory floor and their nights sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs. But when layoffs and picket lines...
Ruined & Mother Courage (Concert Stagings)
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 actors of color, accompanied by acclaimed percussionist Rob Smith, will perform both plays. RUINED...
Baltimore Waltz
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 suddenly diagnosed with the fictitious Acquired Toilet Disease, a mysterious new illness with a high risk factor for elementary school teachers...
Let Me Down Easy
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 uses her signature documentary style to present a gallery of 20 people from the iconic like Ann Richards...
Well
Portland Playhouse: Lisa Kron; dir: Josh Hecht.
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Join us for the 2026–2027 Season Portland Center Stage at The Armory (9/27-6/27) |
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Hands on a Hardbody Lakewood Theatre Company (7/10-8/16) |
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Into the Woods Mt Hood Repertory Theatre (8/07-8/23) |
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The Dark Stuff Twilight Theater Company (8/20-9/06) |
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Doja Cat at Moda Center Moda Center (10/17-10/17) |
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Billy Strings Matthew Knight Arena (10/06-10/06) |
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Smote This, A Comedy About God... and Other Serious $H*T Oregon Shakespeare Festival (8/27-10/24) |
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Keller Auditorium (8/02-8/15) |
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Adopt a Sailor 21ten Theate (8/14-8/16) |
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Pink Martini Britt Festival Pavilion & Gardens (9/03-9/03) |