Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Review: At Triangle Productions, a conservative baker must decide whether she'll make the cake for a lesbian wedding.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
Review: In E.M. Lewis's moving and masterfully written new play at 21ten Theatre, a brother and sister return to the scene of their fraught childhood and face down the demons.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
This weekend, Bag&Baggage's reimagined "The Glass Menagerie" and Speculative Drama's immersive "Pericles" are opening. Plus other new and continuing shows and theater news.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
The Hatchery is introducing two shows at its festival of new works, and Milagro Theatre is premiering "Worry Dolls" by Portland native Maya Malan Gonzalez. Plus: Other opening plays, continu…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:09PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
In the University of Oregon's riveting production of Salmah Sabawi's play at Portland Center Stage, characters still laugh and love in the midst of war.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Review: With sparkly costumes and snazzy performances, Broadway Rose stages a de-lovely production of the classic Cole Porter musical.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Danyelle Tinker, a co-founder of North Portland's Twilight Theater Company, is bringing innovative and accessible shows to Oregon's North Coast. Plus: Fresh openings, holdover shows.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2025
This year's shows have been a tapestry of storytelling forms, including Andrea Parson's "The One," Sofia Leonila Marks and Isabel Strongheart McTighe's "La Mariposa," erin rachel's "un/seen,…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Also onstage: The Devil, a Greek muse, and an Elvis-like character make appearances in musicals. Plus other openings, continuing shows, and theater news.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Portland Shakespeare Project's "Merchant" uses a new modern-verse translation by Elise Thoron to mirror contemporary American othering.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2025
Clackamas Rep's "Sherlock Holmes" is her last turn as a sought-after stage manager for more than 30 years, Mulligan says. But she'll still be busy in the director's chair.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
The Bard's work is on outdoor and indoor stages all over, with the return of Portland Actors Ensemble, shows by Original Practice Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ash…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:34PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
Broadway Rose's "Waitress" successfully blends music and magical realism with a strong message about female empowerment.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Integrating clown performance with PETE's "Aw, Hell"; Anthony Hudson (Drag Clown Carla Rossi) is co-producing the third annual drag workshop, part of the Risk/Reward festival of new performa…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Review: Triangle's encore production of "That's No Lady" pays tribute to Darcelle/Walter Cole, as well as his love for Roxy Neuhardt and drag performance.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:45PM[SHARE]Review: Tour de Force Productions turns the trainwrecked relationship at the center of Sam Shepard's desert drama into thrilling theater.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
illioo Native Theatre's workshop performance of 'BlueJay's Canoe'; Profile Theatre's upcoming 'Mother Russia' and its scenic designer Alex Meyer. Plus other openings, an extended run for Por…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
Fuse Theatre Ensemble lights up Reed College's Black Box Theatre with a sizzling production of Stephen Sondheim's musical about presidential assassins.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Twilight Theater Company turns the witty 1950 play into a charming antidote to contemporary American meanness.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Despite funding cuts, vibrant stories are busting out all over, from "The Book of Mormon" to Ten Fifteen's "Again! The Art of Perfection" to "Assassins" and other continuing shows.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:21PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2025
A look inside the making of Triffle's "Happyness (The Wrecking Ball)" and Webb's "Precipice: re-remembering, forgetting, and claiming home."
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
DramaWatch: Â 'The Other Place'; Portland Playhouse campaigns to aid Oregon arts groups; Fuse's OUTwright Festival Linda FergusonPlus: More openings and continuing shows; Native Theater Pr…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2025
'The Storyteller': Starlight and stories Linda FergusonPremiering at Artists Repertory Theatre, Sara Jean Accuardi's play explores the complexities of life and of storytelling, which is both…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
'Groundhog Day': Worth repeating Linda FergusonThe lively and thoughtful stage musical, based on the 1993 movie, creates its own magic at Lakewood Theatre.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2025
DramaWatch: Meaning and music in 'Another Dialogue' and 'Ballad of Iron Jo' Linda FergusonMusic is key in productions from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and Bag&Baggage. Plu…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 04:07PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2025
Fertile Ground wrap-up: Four shows from a vibrant festival Linda Ferguson"Rogues," "545," "Unbound: A Bookish Musical," and "Camp Fire Stories" offered a rich array of theater at this year's…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Salomé's spellbinding strangeness Linda FergusonImago Theatre's mesmerizing production embraces the wonderful weirdness of Oscar Wilde's verse play … and then some.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:00PM[SHARE]The bouyant absurdity of 'Melancholy Play' Linda FergusonA parachute keeps the comic action moving in Blinking Eye Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's oddly uplifting play about sadness.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2025
'Life of Pi:' A shipwreck and a tiger's tale Linda FergusonThe Broadway in Portland show at Keller Auditorium sates our hunger for spectacle by offering a sumptuous feast of projections and …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2025
DramaWatch: Rain, shine, & Fertile Ground Linda FergusonOregon theaters will flourish under an invigorating shower of shows this month, with big attractions like Oscar Wilde's "Salome" a…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2025
Fertile Ground: An early look at three new plays in this year's festival Linda FergusonIn Portland's festival of dozens of new works April 4-19, "Conciliation" reckons with the continuing ef…
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