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. ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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. ...
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....
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...
by Krista Garver - January 27, 2026
What did our critic think of TIGER STYLE! at Profile 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
Pianist Marc-André Hamelin, a “performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (New York Times), headlines this program, which opens with Gershwin’s jazzy Rhapsody in Blue. After intermission,...
The Portland Symphonic Choir returns to perform Orff’s "Carmina Burana" with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA
Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to play Tchaikovsky’s...
To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto...
Guest conductor Farkhad Khudyev leads this Holiday Pops program, which opens with a grand overture by Suppé, and a suite from Tchaikovsky’s well-known Swan Lake....
Rachel Barton Pine, heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, returns by popular demand to perform the lush and lyrical Violin Concerto...
Maestro Brotons, Music Director and Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA, presents Dvoák’s bright and lyrical Eighth Symphony, along with the sparkling Argentum by...
Ode to Joy! Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, 'Choral,' is his final symphony and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA presents Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
Maestro Brotons, Music Director and Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA, presents Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Experience Mahler’s deeply moving rumination on the nature...
Maestro Brotons, Music Director and Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA, presents Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, a brilliant work from Denmark’s most prominent composer...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA will once again present its highly acclaimed Holiday Pops concert program on December 9 and 10, 2023 at Skyview Concert...
Vancouver’s favorite holiday event! Everyone will find something to love in this program of classic holiday tunes and beloved pops hits. Bring the whole family...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA continues its 2023/24 season on November 4 and 5 with guest conductor Maestra Sarah Ioannides and award-winning violinist Philippe Quint....
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA begins its 2023/24 season on September 23 and 24 with guest soloist Antonio Pompa-Baldi performing Rachmaninoff’s lyrical and enduring Piano Concerto No. 2. VSO Music Director and Conductor Maestro Salvador Brotons returns to...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra invites you to hear a unique program led by Maestro Brotons. Come hear Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko’s late 19th-century Overture to...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra invites you to hear a program of all American composers led by Maestro Gerard Schwarz. Come hear Gershwin’s timeless classic An...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra invites you to hear Artist-in-Residence and virtuoso pianist Orli Shaham performing Robert Schumann’s beautiful Piano Concerto in A minor under the...
Selected from over 100 submissions nationwide, three incredible young musicians will make their VSO debut in this program! Join the National Young Artist Competition gold...
Join the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA and Maestro Salvador Brotons as they perform two iconic works by Beethoven. They will begin with The Egmont Overture...
Enjoy your favorite musical theater hits and holiday classics with Broadway star Liz Callaway! This wintertime song fest will have something for everyone, so watch...
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