In Marshall Welch's promising play from Rogue Pack, two girls "meet" through notes left 70 years ago in a library copy of "Who's Who."
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April 22, 2025Linda Ferguson
Music is key in productions from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and Bag&Baggage. Plus: "Joe Turner," "Storyteller," "Brothers Size," "Six" and other openings, continuing shows, Oregon Children's Theater's emergency fund drive and more theater news.
April 21, 2025Linda Ferguson
"Rogues," "545," "Unbound: A Bookish Musical," and "Camp Fire Stories" offered a rich array of theater at this year’s festival of new works.
April 15, 2025Linda Ferguson
Imago Theatre’s mesmerizing production embraces the wonderful weirdness of Oscar Wilde’s verse play … and then some.
A parachute keeps the comic action moving in Blinking Eye Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s oddly uplifting play about sadness.
April 15, 2025Brett Campbell
This year's greater Portland festival of new works inspires creation of original theater pieces in Beaverton, Hillsboro and beyond.
April 14, 2025Lori Tobias
The choreographer will present her award-winning performance of dance and storytelling May 2 and 3 at Ten Fifteen Productions.
April 14, 2025Jim Flint
The Ashland Independent Film Festival will honor the "Twin Peaks" star and one of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's most beloved artists with the Oregon premiere of the documentary “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady.”
April 11, 2025Jim Flint
Edmondson, who began his long OSF career in 1972 by playing Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew," died at home in Ashland at age 86, days after the death of fellow festival veteran Denis Arndt.
April 9, 2025Linda Ferguson
The Broadway in Portland show at Keller Auditorium sates our hunger for spectacle by offering a sumptuous feast of projections and puppetry.
April 9, 2025Brett Campbell
Loading its sets in and out of a coffee shop via U-Haul with each performance, the intimate theater collective brings new and homegrown theater works to Beaverton.
April 6, 2025Drew Pisarra
Wilde's wildly witty 1890s play, a scandal in its time, is rooted in 19th century melodrama. Pisarra's adaptation, opening April 11, keeps that in mind.
April 3, 2025Brett Campbell
Campy modern musical adaptation of the notorious 1936 film brings illegal giggles to Forest Grove.
April 1, 2025Linda Ferguson
Oregon theaters will flourish under an invigorating shower of shows this month, with big attractions like Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” at Imago, the touring “ Life of Pi,” and the annual Fertile Ground festival of new works, April 4-19.
March 29, 2025Jim Flint
The Northwest actor, who spent 15 seasons as a star at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and co-founded Seattle's Intiman Theatre, leaves a sterling legacy.
March 29, 2025Darleen Ortega
With a women and nonbinary cast for "Caesar" and an "Earnest" transported to the Malay Peninsula, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival gives a fresh face to familiar tales.
March 28, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in this podcast with Laotian-American theatermaker Samson Syharath and Indo-American writer/actor Jane Vogel Mantiri about their bicultural roots and their solo shows in Fertile Ground.
March 28, 2025Darleen Ortega
James Ijames' "Fat Ham" and August Wilson's "Jitney" kick off the Ashland festival's 90th season along with "Julius Caesar" and "The Importance of Being Earnest."
March 27, 2025Linda Ferguson
In Portland's festival of dozens of new works April 4-19, "Conciliation" reckons with the continuing effects of the Holocaust, "Rogues" mixes humor with an unflinching look at the realities of caregiving, and "Shelf Life" takes a musical look into one woman’s past.
March 25, 2025Linda Ferguson
Due to financial troubles, the nationally recognized company will suspend its productions and educational programs beginning in September. In the meantime, it's begun a $1 million fund drive.
Theater review: Stumptown Stages presents a salty, witty, and musical update of the comic 1982 movie.
March 18, 2025Linda Ferguson
Portland Center Stage presents a stirring production of "The Light." Fuse prepares "Great White Goes Down" for Fertile Ground. Twilight chronicles the beginnings of gay activism with "The Temperamentals." Plus more openings and continuing shows.
March 14, 2025Jim Flint
Kenerly, a 26-year veteran of the Ashland festival who has starred in other works by the great American playwright, digs into Wilson's world of "Jitney" as the season begins.
March 13, 2025Darleen Ortega
Edward Albee's 1960s masterwork of two toxic marriages gets a bold and skillful new performance. Sixty years later, does its evening of drink and destruction still sting?
March 11, 2025James Bash
The latest Broadway tour of Lin-Manuel's historical hit musical, back in town through March 23, thrillingly tells its early American tale in contemporary style.
March 10, 2025Jim Flint
Daniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early start in Rogue Theater Company's "Doubt" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
March 8, 2025Brett Campbell
Bringing authenticity to neurodiversity: PHAME Academy and Artists Rep collaborate on Diana Burbano’s "Sapience," a play that deals in part with being on the spectrum.
March 6, 2025Darleen Ortega
Actors Isaac Lamb and Charles Grant shine in Samuel D. Butler's empathetic drama about two men struggling to discover answers to life's big questions.
March 5, 2025Linda Ferguson
Artists Repertory Theatre’s warm and colorful premiere of Diana Burbano’s play embraces its array of characters.
March 4, 2025Linda Ferguson
Speculative Drama’s immersive show “Bitter Herb: A Play in Movement” invites audiences to explore the realm of fairy tales. Plus: other openings, continuing shows, theater news.
