Review: BAREFOOT IN THE PARK at Bag&Baggage Productions
Bag & Baggage Productions' performance of Neil Simon's classic comedy, Barefoot in the Park, is an absolute delight with top-notch local talent, and a beautifully staged American classic.…
Reed College, Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202Portland, OR 97202
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!…
Past Shows
40 total · showing 1–10
Universal Harmony: Schumann Piano Quintet
Our summer celebration of the many ways music brings together our shared voices—a confluence of history, culture, past, present, and future—concludes with three exultant jewels of the chamber music repertoire! We begin with Beethoven’s buoyantly energetic Clarinet Trio, with joy...
Timeless Classics: Mozart Clarinet Quintet & “Rhapsody in Blue”
World-renowned clarinetist and CMNW Artistic Director Emeritus David Shifrin leads an incredible concert of soaring clarinet favorites. The evening begins with Mozart’s dazzling Clarinet Quintet, a magical display of woodwind virtuosity in the hands of one of the world’s...
Souvenir: Tchaikovsky Sextet
Music can be a time-travel device or a teleportation machine. A chord progression might whisk you back a decade or two, like to a Tuesday in April. Or, the hint of a melody might bring to mind the sights and sounds of a foreign land you once visited. Composers continually draw...
Crossing Borders: Brahms Piano Quartet
Few things in our fractured world bring us together quite like music, connecting us with our shared humanity across borders and time. Premiered by Clara Schumann in 1861 and famous for its fiery “Rondo alla Zingarese” finale, Brahms’s youthful and exuberant Piano Quartet in G...
An Evening with Chris Thile: Master of the Mandolin
Four-time Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, Chris Thile, returns to CMNW for the first time since his sold-out 2017 performance! Acclaimed as a multifaceted musical talent, The Guardian describes this master...
CMNW Presents the Oregon Bach Festival: Celebratory Cantatas
In every culture and land, music is a part of special events. One of the great masters of celebratory music is none other than Johann Sebastian Bach! Bach wrote more than 300 cantatas, of which 200 survive, and a special subset of these were for special celebratory events rather...
An Evening with Kit Armstrong: Liszt’s Pilgrimage
Pianist Kit Armstrong returns after his electrifying debut last summer with a recital that traces Franz Liszt’s idea of “home,” and how it was shaped by the cities that defined his artistic path. From the musical vibrancy of Paris, through the philosophical ideals of Weimar, to...
Jazz Notes: Gershwin Piano Concerto
Whether first or 10th-generation Americans, virtually all of us come from someplace else, carrying the heartbeat and soul of our ancestry. We express this in our traditions, cuisine, culture, and music—all “jazzified” in a unique fusion of old and new. The same is true for...
Voices of Our Land: Dvořák “American” Quintet
America is, indeed, a musical confluence—a land of many traditions, cultures, and voices that merge to create something entirely new. From Dvoák’s “American” Quintet, influenced by his visit to North America, and our country’s grande dame of composers, Joan Tower’s...
FESTIVAL FINALE: Celestial Virtuosity
The stars align for the final concert of our Summer Festival celebrating Beethoven’s profound influence on the evolution of music. Messiaen’s transcendent Interstellar Call and Ravel’s heroic and nearly orchestral Piano Trio capture both the grace and power he brought to music...
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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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The Shark is Broken The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza (9/10-9/27) |
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You Can’t Take It With You Lakewood Theatre Company (9/11-10/18) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Patricia Quinn The Craterian Theatre (10/18-10/18) |
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H.M.S. Pinafore The Brunish Theatre (10/09-10/25) |
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Four Old Broads: Christmas Extravaganza Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre (HART) (12/05-12/20) |
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Henry IV, Part One Oregon Shakespeare Festival (6/06-10/10) |
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Come From Away Albany Civic Theater (9/11-10/03) |
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Mean Girls Stumptown Stages (1/22-2/14) |
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Annie Stumptown Stages (11/27-12/20) |
