The "memory activism" festival, established to tell stories of the lasting cultural effects of the 1948 Vanport Flood, continues with a rich tapestry of music and theater. Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the Mosaic's leaders and co-founders.
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May 9, 2025Brett Campbell
The Hillsboro Youth Performance Ensemble offers youth hands-on experience in theater craft and management through a paid workforce development program.
May 8, 2025Darleen Ortega
As its grant goes on the chopping block, August Wilson's American classic gets a transcendent performance in a tale of people wrestling with profound human questions.
May 8, 2025Bob Hicks
The city's biggest theater company aims to shore up its finances by June 2026 – and needs $2.5 million by the end of August to keep its doors open and begin its next season.
May 6, 2025Linda Ferguson
Plus: More openings and continuing shows; Native Theater Project awards; a look ahead as theaters begin to announce their 2025-26 seasons.
May 2, 2025Linda Ferguson
Premiering at Artists Repertory Theatre, Sara Jean Accuardi’s play explores the complexities of life and of storytelling, which is both dangerous and delightful.
May 1, 2025Darleen Ortega
Tarell Alvin McCraney's poetical play at Portland Center Stage embodies memories of prison and mystical characters from the Yoruba traditions of West Africa.
April 28, 2025Linda Ferguson
The lively and thoughtful stage musical, based on the 1993 movie, creates its own magic at Lakewood Theatre.
April 27, 2025Jim Flint
The company, which features many current and former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors, draws a loyal and growing audience for contemporary plays in the heart of Shakespeare territory.
April 25, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the playwright about her world premiere at Artists Rep and the play's inspiration in Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
April 25, 2025Caitlin Nolan
... and the bucket, and a hero and a villain, and a few good songs and an ode to fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm in Elliot Lorenc's new stage spectacle at Bag&Baggage.
April 23, 2025Darleen Ortega
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."
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.
