The Oregon Shakespeare Festival kicks off its ’24 season. Plus: new onstage in Portland, from “Perfect Arrangement” to “Sh-Boom!” to “Frog and Toad” and “Ashland” (the play, not the town).
Portland Center Stage sinks its teeth into “What the Constitution Means to Me”; The Old Church’s “Moon Series” goes musical; Chapel Theatre hosts 10 new works; a Wilde “Earnest” & more.
A fond farewell (and hopes for next year) as the show nears its end. Plus: Dickens and other Christmas quickies, “Dracula” and more last chances, national notes.
21ten’s “Taking Care of Animals” is a big show in a small space. Plus: a snowflurry of holiday shows, from Scrooge to Rudolph to “Black Nativity” and more.
Shaking the Tree takes on the bitter beauty of Lorca’s poetic tale. Plus: “California” returns, Milagro celebrates women warriors, Triangle heads for the Big Apple.
As the theater season shifts into high gear, Center Stage’s “Hair” marches to the beat of 1968’s drum and a host of other shows hit the stage.
The festival’s just-announced 2024 season suggests a return to the kind of lineup that’s excited audiences in the past. Plus: Fats Waller and the joint are jumpin’ at Broadway Rose.
“The fundamentals of the economy are getting stronger, but people are still skittish” – and theater companies are suffering for it. Plus: Anonymous Theatre plays Pirate.
Broadway Rose’s production of the Rodgers + Hammerstein musical adds a light touch of depth to some scintillating singing and knockout costumes.
With fresh productions opening of The Scottish Play and the lost-slipper musical, we’re one leg off a tantalizing theatrical trifecta.
Clackamas Rep brings the ancients romping into the present. Plus: Broadway Rose’s “Dreamcoat,” new leader at Artists Rep, farewell to Book-It Rep and Sheldon Harnick, more.
Premieres from E.M. Lewis and Carol Triffle top the theater week. Plus: Trying to break down the breakdown at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Sharon Maroney’s new musical “Audition From Hell” at Broadway Rose takes a breezy but pointed trip into the perils and pitfalls of backstage life.
Lauren Yee’s “Young Americans” at Center Stage takes on the issues of immigration and belonging. Plus: Corrib’s Irish “Trade,” openings and closings.
Imago’s magical menagerie of costumed critters returns to the stage. Plus Dickens and C.S. Lewis and even Neil Simon.
Suddenly it’s time for theatrical good cheer, from Tiny Tim to a Wonderful Life to a PDX musical – plus Corrib’s foray into an intense virtual future.
Scott Palmer returns to Bag & Baggage with the “Hamlet” riff “The Last White Man”; ripples & waves from Artists Rep and Center Stage; Richard Thomas in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
When lead actor Richie Stone in Broadway Rose’s musical “The Evolution of Mann” is sidelined by Covid, director Isaac Lamb takes the stage for opening night.
Portland Shakespeare Project gives a “Play On” twist to a tale of jealousy and redemption. Plus openings, closings, and a farewell to Peter Brook.
The musical theater company opens a $3.4 million expansion; Lake Oswego welcomes a weekend arts festival and an Ed Carpenter sculpture.
Test your knowledge of the music of Richard Rodgers and others in a brand-new crossword puzzle.
Old pros Mendelson and Alper continue a long onstage partnership in Artists Rep’s “The Children.” Plus: Ashland opens, new seasons, Lost Treasures & more.
Portland plunges into its festival of new works, and “other” theater from “Gatsby” to “Gloria” lights the lights.
At the airport, a cultural banner flies high. At the art museum, the Nabis put on a show. At the movies, remakes happen. In Ashland and Newport, art starts over.
Are you ready? A trio of productions each brings its own take (and a little music) to the classic Dickens holiday tale.
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.
Themes echo and recur in Portland Playhouse’s “Barbecue,” Artists Rep’s “The Chinese Lady,” and “The Weir” in Astoria.
Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival’s under way.
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
Part one in a series about how theater companies are transitioning back to in-person performances.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Storm Large and 3 Leg Torso make a movie, Chamber Music NW goes live, the Joy of words.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
Broadway Rose streams “The Last Five Years,” Center Stage gets a James Baldwin mural, Bard endures Plague.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Oscar nod; Dawson Carr’s big day; dance dive; laureate speaks; big BRAVO.
ArtsWatch Weekly: I Am MORE, Broadway Rose’s ‘Story of My Life,’ PDX Jazz Fest, art around Oregon.
The ups, downs, disasters, trends, outrages, and triumphs of Oregon arts & culture in a tortuous year.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Holiday shows, making theatrical spirits bright, gallery art, new music, fresh flicks, passages.
At Broadway Rose, a musical romantic comedy is streaming – and the stars sign on for the long run.
ArtsWatch Weekly: In a pandemic era first, Triangle opens a show indoors. Plus: Art in the Pearl, virtually.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As the world turns, will real reality replace virtual reality?
Space squeeze, RACC reshuffle, Fertile Ground fever, nudes & Federales: a busy week.
Broadway Rose’s “Up and Away” is an affectionate yet subversive musical superhero parody.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
Stuck in an impeachment funk? Liberace, Liza, and a whole lot of holiday shows to reset the mood.
The week in theater offers more Christmas shows than you can shake a candy cane at!
“Melancholy Play” is a whimsical reminder that sometimes you feel like a nut. Plus: holiday treats and Portland theater Christmas stuffing.
From Scheharazade spinning stories to a 6-year-old spinning a galaxy, a whirl of Oregon creative life.
Wondrous music tempers an overstuffed story in Broadway Rose’s “Once.”
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