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Emily Marsh discusses her madcap adventures in the cult movie spoof show, which will be live in Eugene on Jan. 3 and Portland on Jan. 4.
Cygnet Productions’ radio satire of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” streaming through January, pokes feminist fun at the literary classic.
Are you ready? A trio of productions each brings its own take (and a little music) to the classic Dickens holiday tale.
The holiday tradition returns Dec. 17 and 18 after the theater company went dark for nearly two years due to COVID.
Sure, there’s plenty of Dickens in December. But on Oregon stages, it’s Conor McPherson season, too.
Remembering Philip Cuomo, Stephen Sondheim, and Dave Frishberg. Plus: A “Curious” reopening, Christmas Carols everywhere.
DramaWatch Weekly: The beloved actor, director, and leader of CoHo Productions died Saturday after a battle with lymphoma.
Portland’s LGBTQ theater ensemble gets a new home, a new season, and a new way of thinking about how it does business.
This week at the theater: Chewing over the issues in Portland Playhouse’s prism on race and language; “Mean Girls” and 600 Highwaymen hit town; last chances & more.
The star of the rapid-fire one-man show coming Nov. 14 to Portland’s Newmark Theatre talks in an ArtsWatch Q&A about the method behind his miraculous madness.
Imago’s Jerry Mouawad talks about the Covid-era fear factor in Conor McPherson’s tense and anxious stage version of “The Birds.” Plus: Stage openings & closings.
Themes echo and recur in Portland Playhouse’s “Barbecue,” Artists Rep’s “The Chinese Lady,” and “The Weir” in Astoria.
In Celine Song’s play about a tight-knit clan of half-siblings, hell is other people, and they seem to be all in the family.
Also in a busy week: A “Barbecue” at Portland Playhouse, “The Chinese Lady” at Artists Rep, a “Peep” from The Reformers and a “Lonely Vampire” from Imago, “Danse Macabre” returns, plus plays onscreen.
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
José González and Dañel Malán lead the resurgence of the Northwest’s only Latinx theater company.
Vanessa Severo talks about “becoming” the famed Mexican artist; Martha Washington bakes again.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
As the stage world begins to bustle, Marty Hughley rides herd on the scene, from Shakespeare to Bojangles.
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
Out of the Covid crisis rises the captivating specter of François Villon, a wild 15th century poet for our times.
Imago director brings his offbeat imagination to Eugene Opera’s “Lucy” and his own “Satie’s Journey.”
Covid clipped the new company’s wings as it was taking flight. Now it’s back, with a set of six filmed shows.
After nine years as the company’s artistic director, Dámaso Rodríguez explains why he’s stepping down.
At Triangle, the author of “The Vagina Monologues” takes on her own journey into the trials of cancer.
Stage & Studio: A conversation with founder Sankar Raman, plus a father’s talk with his daughter 20 years ago on 9/11.
Third Angle premieres an opera inspired by gentrification’s damage to Portland’s Black community.
Theater founder and executive director Donald Horn explains how he’s waging war on COVID-19.
The immigrant founder of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts says she often did not fit in – until she found theater.
PassinArt’s Pacific Northwest Multi-Cultural Festival serves a virtual feast of stories by and for artists of color.
Maeve Z O’Connor talks about her stuck-in-a-storm play “Omission,” opening at the Keizer Cultural Center.
Plus, Yamhill County galleries offer impressionistic paintings and clocks with an attitude.
As “The Oldest Profession” nears an end, a look at the method that shapes Paula Vogel’s incendiary work.
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
Part one in a series about how theater companies are transitioning back to in-person performances.
At the JAW New Play Fest, playwright Kate Hamill takes her updated Watson & Holmes mystery for a trial spin.
Imago takes Carol Triffle’s newest play offstage and onto radio. A cast member explores how and why they dunnit.
Jenn Grinels and Merideth Kaye Clark discuss the concert version of a musical about a woman who fought in the Civil War.
A singer grapples with Alzheimer’s in the new chamber opera “A Song by Mahler” at Chamber Music Northwest.
A momentous podcast conversation with the artistic directors of two leading Portland youth companies.
When Coaster Theatre Playhouse moved shows outdoors, it confronted a new challenge: being heard.
Rebecca Martinez and Zi Alikhan talk about life, theater, and becoming national Rising Leaders of Color.
Making magic in Laurelhurst Park with the family-friendly play “Hannah + the Healing Stone.”
Dmae Roberts talks with the makers of a new incubator for Black/Queer Theatre, from Fuse and OUTwright.
Cygnet presents “Xingu,” an Edith Wharton radio play adaptation full of literature, lies, and laughter.
Bonnie Vorenberg and ArtAge have helped spur a flourishing national scene of theater for older people.
Original Practice Shakespeare dives into the “Henry” trio of plays for three straight nights – online.
Diana Burbano’s audio play “The Vertical City” is a tragic (and triumphant) vision of a futuristic PDX.
The McMinnville theater reopens with Lance Nuttman in a one-man show about the nature of inspiration.
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