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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.
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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.
February 28, 2025Brett Campbell
Bag&Baggage Productions’ snappy "Beginnings & Endings" presents a stripped-down "Richard III" and a modern look at the Bard’s women.
February 26, 2025Darleen Ortega
Portland Playhouse's sterling production of Anna Deavere Smith's play about the school-to-prison pipeline meets the nation's political and cultural moment.
February 26, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: Samantha Van Der Merwe’s production of Annie Baker’s play is a beguiling blend of realistic dialogue and theatrical magic.
February 25, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: New translations and superb performances (plus a little Looney Tunes) bring "The Bear," "The Proposal," and "The Ravages of Tobacco” to invigorating life.
February 25, 2025Bobby Bermea
Despite tough times, theater is NOT dead, Bobby Bermea declares, and talks with seven up-and-coming theater artists who are changing the game on Portland stages.
February 18, 2025Linda Ferguson
With a multitude of shows opening in the next few weeks, the artistic teams read like a who’s who of Portland theater favorites. Plus: Other openings, including a bold new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”
February 18, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
In Anna Deavere Smith's solo play opening at Portland Playhouse, there are "heavy issues" but also "moments of light and hope. And joy.”
February 16, 2025Bob Hicks
The longtime Seattle theater and culture writer, who also contributed often to Oregon ArtsWatch, embraced life and art with passion and a constant case of curiosity.
February 14, 2025Bobby Bermea
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."
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.
