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Antoinette Nwandu's play, a co-production of Corrib Theatre and Historic Alberta House, holds a fascinating conversation between Black American life and "Waiting for Godot."
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February 12, 2025Lori Tobias
Based in a school designed by A.E. Doyle, the 30-year-old NCRD is home to concerts, lectures, an art gallery, and soon, a new $16.4 million aquatics center.
February 11, 2025Linda Ferguson
With "J.C.: Gospel According to an Angel," the founder of Triangle Productions! and composer Michael Allen Harrison turn biblical debates into a transcendent new musical.
February 10, 2025Bob Hicks
The multi-talented actor, playwright, composer, singer, lyricist, and recording artist, who came to Portland from New York City, leaves a host of memories and fine work.
February 10, 2025Barbara Cervone
In the heart of Oregon Shakespeare country, Empowered Arts Ensemble participants study before the performance how to connect on stage — and collaborate on their own play.
February 4, 2025Linda Ferguson
The prolific composer thrives on his packed schedule, which includes rehearsing for "JC: Gospel According to an Angel," a new musical at Triangle Productions. Plus: Other openings, still running, and theater news.
February 3, 2025Bobby Bermea
Bobby Bermea: After several years of shifting to award-winning independent films, the ensemble returns to the theater stage with a short run of one-act plays.
January 30, 2025Caitlin Nolan
The short-run play, performed in Spanish with English interpretation, challenges convention, its author says: “I like pushing buttons. I like being kind of wrong and perverted.”
January 30, 2025Darleen Ortega
Playful and richly unsettling, Yee's drama about surrogacy and impending parenthood and a kind of colonialism is a gift in the best and most complicated ways.
January 28, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: R. Eric Thomas's densely stitched two-hander play at Portland Center Stage raises a complex tapestry of questions about race, friendship, and storytelling.
January 25, 2025Bobby Bermea
The prolific playwright, whose drama about an American couple and a surrogate mother in India is playing at Profile Theatre, talks about big dreams and "the prickly, messy places where cultures collide."
January 21, 2025Linda Ferguson
Audiences and actors alike have the chance to engage with the issues presented in “American Son” and “Samsara.” Plus: Openings, mid-run shows, coming up, theater news.
January 20, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: Jerry Mouawad is the maestro behind this tragic but artistically magical reimagining of Tennessee Williams's great American drama "A Streetcar Named Desire."
January 14, 2025Misha Berson
The Broadway hit, the touching and often funny tale of a girl whose body ages rapidly far beyond her years, settles into Portland's Keller Auditorium for an eight-show run.
January 7, 2025Linda Ferguson
Imago’s "A Streetcar Named Desire," the touring musical "Kimberly Akimbo," and Portland Center Stage’s "Mrs. Harrison" all defy oversimplification.
January 6, 2025Bob Hicks
Review: Bruce Burkhartsmeier delivers a masterful performance at the intimate 21ten Theatre of Samuel Beckett's 1958 one-act tale of loneliness and regret (with flashes of wit).
January 6, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: Delicious set, sound and costume designs bring a film noir vibe to the stage in this U.S. premiere theatrical production.
January 4, 2025Bobby Bermea
An aging man meets himself, 30 and 40 years earlier: Actor Bruce Burkhartsmeier and his telltale tape recorder take on the challenge and regrets of Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape."
December 30, 2024Linda Ferguson
Oregon theaters offered us an abundance of blissful, moving and mind-altering moments in 2024, and DramaWatch columnist and reviewer Linda Ferguson remembers her favorites.
December 27, 2024Linda Ferguson
The 2024 theater year is ending, but there’s plenty to anticipate in 2025 – and a little left in '24.
December 18, 2024Brett Campbell
Noel meets Noir in Bag & Baggage’s new family friendly holiday play.
December 17, 2024Linda Ferguson
Imago Theatre’s co-artistic directors Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad, who have been creating anthropomorphic animals since 1979, have hatched a charming new trio of baby birds for this year’s production.
December 10, 2024Bob Hicks
White, the much-loved pianist and director who made the music sing in theaters across Portland, was also the talent behind Cabaret White, which showcased many of the city's best singers.
December 10, 2024Linda Ferguson
Josie Seid and Sara Jean Accuardi’s “Fezziwig” offers Twilight Theater audiences a chance to explore their own losses and joys, while Stumptown Theater’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” adds vibrant color and toe-tapping music to its adaptation of a film classic.
December 9, 2024Bob Hicks
Triangle Productions' "Little Shop" and Corrib Theatre's "Godot" dive into the deeply entwined depths of the comic and the tragic, which in both plays rely on each other.
December 7, 2024Bob Hicks
The Portland professional training school, which began life in 1985 in a former dental office, now draws students from across the nation seeking careers in the theater world.
December 6, 2024Lori Tobias
Theaters in Nehalem, Cannon Beach, and Newport welcome the season (and audiences) with some timely onstage comedy, family-friendly nostalgia, and a live radio-style "Wonderful Life."
December 4, 2024Dmae Lo Roberts
In her newest podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the youth company's longtime leader about its bold move downtown, solving puzzles, and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
December 3, 2024Linda Ferguson
Setting the stage for gratitude: As December dawns, “Black Nativity,” “Fezziwig’s Fortune,” and “Veronica, In Bed” all acknowledge adversity while offering inspiration.
December 3, 2024Darleen Ortega
Review: Shakespeare's mind-bending comedy at Portland Center Stage ripples with laughter as the play explores fascinating facets of love, identity, friendship, and human nature.