376 stories from Oregon ArtsWatch
Podcast host Dmae Lo Roberts talks with playwright Sue Mach and director Gemma Whelan about Mach's play that creatively fills in the gaps in Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale."
In a musical split between town and country, star Miki Abraham declares: "Getting to play a strong Southern woman pays homage to all the matriarchy in my life."
Review: Like an irresistible layer cake, Profile Theatre's staging of Jen Silverman's devilishly humorous "Witch" is a rich and tasty experience.
Review: In Ashland, Samuel Beckett's classic delivers humor, humanity and introspection, leaving audiences deeply moved.
Oregon's theaters are offering a host of innovative entertainment in the coming weeks. Plus, continuing shows, a peek at early November offerings, and theater news.
Review: With delightful music and motion, Light Opera of Portland's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's tragicomedy is a perfect October treat.
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.
"Parcel From America," based on a story Tomáseen Foley told in Ashland in 1998, is green-lighted for a musical production in New York
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…
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.
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.
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.
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, continuing …
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…
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.
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.
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…
Oregon author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's new biography chronicles how the creator of the smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" reached impossible heights.
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.
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…
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."
Review: At Triangle Productions, a conservative baker must decide whether she'll make the cake for a lesbian wedding.
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.
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.
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.
