Friday, May 1, 2026
Portland Playhouse and Portland Center Stage combine on a lively production of Jame Ijames' updated version of "Hamlet," set amid a North Carolina barbecue bash.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2026
A staged reading of Sarah Overman's play at the new-works festival delves into the travails of Oregon's first woman lawyer, and the plight of women in the historic West.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2026
Spring shows include powerful and inspiring performances of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Come From Away,' and 'A Raisin in the Sun.'
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2026
The three-actor musical tale of a green-skinned boy emerging from his "outsider" shell soars with an intimate comic-book aura and a garbage-band vibe.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2026
Review: In Sam Holcroft's tense and shifting drama at Third Rail Rep, truth is elusive and seeps out furtively, poking beyond the sharp eyes of the state's official censor.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
Theater Review: Portand Playhouse's West Coast premiere of Pearl Cleage's pointed and funny play about Black women's power shimmers with insight, love, and hope.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:28PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Portland Center Stage's co-production with Seattle Rep hits all the wrong notes to perfection in this comedy romp in which anything that can go wrong hilariously does.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2026
Mike Lew's canny and engaging comic battleground on the small Ellyn Bye Studio stage deftly dives below the stereotypes of Chinese American life and achievement.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2025
The 1980s two-actor hit "A Tuna Christmas" is packing 'em in at Bag&Baggage with a sly mix of small-town meanness and tongue-in-cheek mockery of the same.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Review: PassinArt continues its long tradition with a gorgeous and moving production of Langston Hughes's gospel songplay, this year at Alberta Abbey.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:20PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
Review: In Lauren Gunderson's stage adaptation, Louisa May Alcott plays a central role among her creations, bringing an old-favorite novel into the modern age.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
Review: Portland Center Stage kicks off its season with Eboni Booth's 2024 Pulitzer winner, featuring Larry Owens of "Abbott Elementary" as a surprising and complex hero.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2025
Portland Playhouse's not-to-be-missed production of Dominique Morisseau's brilliant "Paradise Blue" sets a private drama against the larger cultural crisis of a thriving Black community on t…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2025
The final two shows of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2025 season rethink a classic Western and Cervantes' "Don Quixote" in fresh and stimulating ways.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
In review: The festival romps into summer with three fine and funny productions, topped by the musical fairy-tale fantasy of a glorious journey "Into the Woods."
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:36PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
With "The Importance of Being Earnest" already playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kamilah Bush's fresh adaptation for Portland Center Stage unveils Oscar Wilde's queer coding and gi…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 08:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Yee's undercurrent of humor cushions deeper questions about communism, capitalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the ways we live our lives.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:37PM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
In review: Damaris Webb goes camping in "Precipice: re-membering, forgetting, and claiming home"; comic actor Chris Grace cuts to racial realities in "Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johannson."
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
A brilliant 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone' at Portland Playhouse (even with its NEA grant pulled) Darleen OrtegaAs its grant goes on the chopping block, August Wilson's American classic gets a…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
'The Brothers Size': Heartbreak, erasure, resilience and connection Darleen OrtegaTarell Alvin McCraney's poetical play at Portland Center Stage embodies memories of prison and mystical char…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Fertile Ground: 'Who's Who' across the decades Darleen OrtegaIn Marshall Welch's promising play from Rogue Pack, two girls "meet" through notes left 70 years ago in a library copy of "Who's …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2025
'Julius Caesar' & 'The Importance of Being Earnest': Ashland reinvents the classics Darleen OrtegaWith a women and nonbinary cast for "Caesar" and an "Earnest" transported to the Malay P…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
Oregon Shakespeare Festival strikes gold with a pair of plays about Black life Darleen OrtegaJames Ijames' "Fat Ham" and August Wilson's "Jitney" kick off the Ashland festival's 90th season …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2025
Center Stage's searing 'Virginia Woolf': Why now? Darleen OrtegaEdward Albee's 1960s masterwork of two toxic marriages gets a bold and skillful new performance. Sixty years later, does its e…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2025
Review: Third Rail's potent 'A Case for the Existence of God' Darleen OrtegaActors Isaac Lamb and Charles Grant shine in Samuel D. Butler's empathetic drama about two men struggling to disco…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
'Notes from the Field': A play for today Darleen OrtegaPortland Playhouse's sterling production of Anna Deavere Smith's play about the school-to-prison pipeline meets the nation's political …
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2025
Review: Lauren Yee's 'Samsara' at Profile is not to be missed Darleen OrtegaPlayful and richly unsettling, Yee's drama about surrogacy and impending parenthood and a kind of colonialism is a…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2024
'Twelfth Night': High comedy & big ideas Darleen OrtegaReview: Shakespeare's mind-bending comedy at Portland Center Stage ripples with laughter as the play explores fascinating facets of…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2024
'The Event!' " Artists Rep unveils a mystery Darleen OrtegaReview: In its first full production in its home space since 2019, the company creates a cluster of intriguing small-town Oregon ch…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:58AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2024
Review: A razor-sharp 'Sweeney Todd' Darleen OrtegaPortland Center Stage mounts a compellingly sung version of Stephen Sondheim's penny-dreadful tale of meat pies, murder, and revenge on the…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:41PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
Review: The new Native Theater Project gets a strong start with 'Diné Nishłį' Darleen OrtegaThe premiere of Blossom Johnson's "Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boardin…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:53PM[SHARE] 
