Friday, July 24, 2026
Eva Curry’s new play, premiering this weekend at BodyVox studios, conjures an era when women made magic to make a living.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:56PM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2026
In performances in Portland this weekend and Salem next month, the Willamette University-based company showcases and develops new plays by Northwest writers.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:56AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
Panels, workshops, and performances explore myriad applications for improv, both onstage and off.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 04:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2026
Hillsboro’s Native Performing Arts Network and Bag&Baggage Productions stage the erstwhile Oregon writer’s Indigenized adaptation of ‘Antigone.’
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 10:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
The Hillsboro performing arts education organization marks 16 years of teaching performing arts to local students with the world premiere of an original musical exploring issues close to hom…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 10:05AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2026
PSU's spring productions, led by a stylish, successful "Spring Awakening," highlighted expanded theater programming.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2026
NPAN’s reading of Cherokee playwright DeLanna Studi’s new ‘I is for Invisible’ highlighted national commemoration of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 04:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Ezra Weiss & Sarah Jane Hardy's popular 'Alice in Wonderland: a Jazz Musical' makes its first appearance at The Judy.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2026
Recently moved into a new warehouse space in Aloha, the company mounts "Flanagan's Wake," a new production that thrusts viewers into a comical Irish wake.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2026
The prolific Hillsboro novelist finds new success in original plays at HART Theatre.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:01AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2025
As its founding leader steps down after a decade, the Portland theatrical innovator celebrates its play development model with a two-play showcase this weekend and next " and a coming new mo…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
The Willamette University-based theater development program expands its offerings, and brings them to Portland this weekend.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:34PM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2025
Believe the HYPE: Bag&Baggage's new youth performance group exemplifies a company that looks to theater's future Brett CampbellThe Hillsboro Youth Performance Ensemble offers youth hands…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Fertile Ground: Homegrown plays, west of the hills Brett CampbellThis year's greater Portland festival of new works inspires creation of original theater pieces in Beaverton, Hillsboro and b…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Spark Plug: Taking risks, building trust Brett CampbellLoading its sets in and out of a coffee shop via U-Haul with each performance, the intimate theater company brings new and homegrown th…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2025
High times, low comedy: Theatre in the Grove's 'Reefer Madness: The Musical' spoofs drug war hysteria Brett CampbellCampy modern musical adaptation of the notorious 1936 film brings illegal …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2025
Unexpected connections, onstage and off Brett CampbellBringing authenticity to neurodiversity: PHAME Academy and Artists Rep collaborate on Diana Burbano's "Sapience," a play that deals in p…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2025
Shakespeare, minimalist and feminist Brett CampbellBag&Baggage Productions' snappy "Beginnings & Endings" presents a stripped-down "Richard III" and a modern look at the Bard's women.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
'Hard Boiled Eggnog': Who offed Santa? Brett CampbellNoel meets Noir in Bag & Baggage's new family friendly holiday play.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2024
Harrison Butler leads HART Theatre back from the brink " and into the future Brett CampbellThe Hillsboro theater's dynamic artistic director brings an inclusive vision that embraces new work…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2024
A new stage for telling Native stories Brett CampbellDirector Jeanette Harrison's new Native Theater Project, in an innovative partnership with Hillsboro's Bag & Baggage Productions, de…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2024
New plays from an old place: Northwest Theatre Workshop's 'Fragments' Brett CampbellA rural Oregon grocery store-cum-creative hub provides a source of freshly devised plays " and a showcase …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2024
Light Opera of Portland's 'Iolanthe' throws Gilbert & Sullivan for a LOoP Brett CampbellThe company brings its comic operettas to downtown Portland and Hillsboro.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 04:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Theatre 33's Intoxicating Vision  Brett CampbellAs it begins its second decade, the Salem company based at Willamette University is creating new opportunities for Oregon dramatists
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