Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Review: With delightful music and motion, Light Opera of Portland’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s tragicomedy is a perfect October treat.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:22PMTuesday, October 14, 2025
In Imago Theatre’s production of Noël Coward’s 1933 play, a three-way affair is cause for comedy as well as angst for its characters.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:51PM"Parcel From America," based on a story Tomáseen Foley told in Ashland in 1998, is green-lighted for a musical production in New York
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMSunday, October 12, 2025
The Yamhill County theater takes on the challenge of Edward Albee's great and gritty American drama, and photographer Dee Moore follows the process from beginning of rehearsal to final previ…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMSaturday, October 11, 2025
The playwright and novelist's tale, riffing off a Jacobean tragicomedy about community and outcasts, takes "risks with humor, and what can be funny” at Profile Theatre.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:30AMThursday, 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 02:27PMWednesday, October 8, 2025
Keiko Green’s contemporary Shakespearean riff of a play, set in a college dorm, keeps the mood mostly light in Artists Rep's entertaining season-opener.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 03:04PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
Mikki Gillette’s first musical premieres at Fuse Theatre Ensemble, while Shaking the Tree Theatre stages a dancing rebellion. Plus the Stage Fright Festival, other opening shows, continuin…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 04:42PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:15AMMonday, September 29, 2025
The juggling and acrobatic stars of the California-based touring circus troupe bring their physical marvels to Vancouver, Wash., for seven shows Oct. 2-5.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AMThursday, September 25, 2025
In William Thomas Berk’s new play "Anno Machina: An Apocalyptic Elegy," a surviving Human Service Unit is left to find its own emotions and meaning in life.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:50PMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Plus: Sunstone's "The Grown-Ups," Shake&Pop's "Midsummer Night's Dream," Stage Fright Queer Horror Fest, Fuse's "Magnetic Electric," Portland Playhouse's "Paradise Blue," more opening an…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:29PMSaturday, September 20, 2025
Oregon author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's new biography chronicles how the creator of the smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" reached impossible heights.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AMFriday, September 19, 2025
An evening of storytelling, mariachi music and dance tells the tales of a vibrant United States culture of variety and counters the upswell of anti-immigrant sentiment.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:28PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
A spectacular season of new shows, musicals, and more looms as Portland Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Experience Theatre Project and others inaugurate new seasons. Plus: The launch of 1…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:49PMSunday, September 14, 2025
Preview: Peter Hargrave revels in the role he's played in the musical's Broadway tour more than 1,000 times: "I like to think Scar is the fan favorite. It is an iconic Disney villain.”
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 12:00PMTuesday, 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 01:37PMThursday, 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 09:00AMTuesday, 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 03:24PMMonday, September 1, 2025
The Broadway tour of the hit musical "Some Like It Hot" swings into Portland starting Tuesday, and understudy Bryan Thomas Hunt is coming to his home town with it.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AMSaturday, August 30, 2025
Ashland’s high-flying popular company, thriving after 10 years under Rick Robinson and Val Rachelle's leadership, honors its origins as it prepares to launch its 41st season.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 05:31PMFriday, 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 01:15PMThursday, August 28, 2025
The Oregon playwright's newest, opening at 21Ten Theatre, spins a small-town story of tart memories and emotional isolation on a family farm.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AMTuesday, 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, con…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 06:09PMMonday, 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 11:25AMSaturday, August 16, 2025
The comic and dramatic actor, part of an acting family and a welcome figure on stages from Portland to Ashland, gathered a host of friends in her 35 years of life.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 07:56PMSunday, August 10, 2025
Javier "Javi" Dubon, in his new role at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival less than two months, is leading with a collaborative approach, bent toward understanding audiences — "what makes th…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 11:55AMWednesday, 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 08:15PMTuesday, 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 06:17PMWho's on first? Clackamas Rep's bright and sassy revival of the 1950s musical-comedy hit about a phenom who comes out of nowhere beats the Devil at his own nefarious game.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:31PMSunday, August 3, 2025
The pop-filled, frisky touring musical "& Juliet," which gives Juliet a new lease on life, plays Portland Aug. 5-10. Plus: Broadway in Portland's 2025-26 season.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:30PM 
