STAGE

Drammy Award Ceremony

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Portland Civic Theatre Guild presents the 27th annual celebration of the best of Portland theater. Dress code: "innovative." Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 6 pm Monday, June 12. Free admission, all ages.

Assassins

[CLOSES SUNDAY] Director Jon Kretzu promised a new take on Sondheim's wonderfully creepy exploration of the minds of nine would-be presidential assassins, and ART's new production does not disappoint. Assassins is an explosive musical production not likely to be matched this season. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1516 SW Alder St., 241-1278. 8 pm Tuesday-Thursday, 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 and 7 pm Sunday. Closes June 11. $15-$40.

Boz Scagg's Boss Gaggs!

[CLOSES SATURDAY] Two brand-new shows (one on Fridays, the other on Saturdays) by sketch-comedy troupes Renob Control and A+ Failing. Brody Theater, 1904 NW 27th Ave., 224-0688. 10:30 pm Friday-Saturday. Closes June 10. $7, $10 two-day pass.

By the Bog of Cats

[CLOSES SATURDAY] Irish playwright Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats is lush but long-winded, beautiful but bitchy. Like Medea in ancient Greek mythology, Hester Swane (Marilyn Stacey) is driven by feelings of abandonment to murder; in this case, it's fratricide. JOHANNA DROUBAY. CoHo Productions, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday. Closes June 10. $17-$22.

The Centering

This one-man show by local playwright Steve Patterson explores the psyche of a political prisoner who talks to a clown inside his head. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 956-6089. 11 pm Fridays and Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays. Closes June 24. $10, $7 students.

Hamlet

[CLOSES SUNDAY] Director Fred Walton puts a contemporary spin on a Shakespeare classic. Northwest Classical Theatre Company at Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 274-4771. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. Closes June 11. $18, $12 students, seniors.Kimberly Akimbo[OPENS FRIDAY] A lunatic comedy of dysfunctional families and rare medical conditions from the author of Fuddy Meers. Portland Actors Conservatory at Firehouse Theatre, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Opens June 9. Preview performances 7 pm June 7-8. $15 Thursday and Sunday, $20 Friday and Saturday, $25 Friday June 9, $12 previews.

The Lonesome West

The final play in hotshot playwright and high-school dropout Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy. Think Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Antigone cut together by the deadpan brutality of William S. Burroughs as performed by a cast of semiliterate Dublin cab drivers. Killing one's relatives and hacking the ears off dogs are the stuff of conversation in the town of Leenane, the squalid home of the disgusting Conner brothers. Tim True and John Steinkamp shine as the abusive brothers. BEN WATERHOUSE. Third Rail Repertory at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 235-1101. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 17. $20, $15 students, seniors.

Portland Theatre Brigade

Adrienne Flagg directs 16 actors, ages 7 to 15, in performances of folk tales from around the world. Portland Theatre Brigade at Artists Repertory Theater Second Stage, 1516 SW Alder St., 241-1278. 7 pm Mondays, June 12 and 19. $7, $3 children under twelve.

Silence

In her medieval road-trip play featuring a cross-dressing prince, the abused daughter of a saint, an agoraphobic priest, a telepathic bodyguard and a bloodthirsty king with a grudge, Moira Buffini finds contemporary social ills in an 11th-century conflict. BEN WATERHOUSE. Jakers Productions at Back Door Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 784-7316. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. Closes June 24. $15-$18, Thursdays (except for closing weekend) are "pay what you will."

Tao Soup

This repetitive play is like a broken record of Lao Tse doing spoken word. PAIGE RICHMOND. Brooklyn Bay Performance Space, 1825 SE Franklin St., Bay K, 777-5879. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Closes July 1. $15, $12 students, seniors, $10 second-timers.

Theater District

Another winner from John Kretzu and ART, Theater District is a hilarious story of one day in the life of a postmodern family. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theater Mainstage, 1516 SW Alder St., 231-1278. 7 pm Tuesdays-Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 and 7 pm Sundays. Closes July 3. $15-$40.The Trial[OPENS THURSDAY] Kafka's unfortunately timely novel of totalitarian injustice, newly adapted by director Steve Coker. La Bodega Productions at Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 998-0034. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays. Opens June 8. $15 Fridays and Saturdays, $12 Thursdays and Sundays.

An Unlikely Story

Epic tales from comedy improvisers the Brodys. Brody Theater, 1904 NW 27th Ave., 224-0688. 8 pm Saturdays. Closes June 17. $10, $7 students.

The Who's Tommy

[CLOSES SATURDAY] For a laughably low-budget production of an ambitious musical, staged in a tiny community center by a cast of enthusiastic but mostly incompetent amateurs, Radiant Theatre's new adaptation of The Who's Tommy isn't all that bad. BEN WATERHOUSE. Radiant Theatre at Liberty Hall, 311 N Ivy St., 502-8261. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday. Closes June 10. $20, $17 advance at radianttheatre.org. Thursdays are "pay what you can."

CLASSICAL

Chamber Music Recital

Mozart's birthday celebration continues with a concert by three distinguished guest artists, sponsored by the Portland Chamber Orchestra. Violinist Mayumi Fujikawa, cellist Richard Markson and pianist Gerald Robbins present piano trios by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schubert. Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-3250. 8 pm Friday, June 9. $20-$25.

H.M.S. Pinafore

This beloved comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, produced here by Mock's Crest Productions, is full of balderdash, whimsy and lower-middle-upper class satire. The story follows a British naval captain's daughter who falls in love with a common sailor, even though she is betrothed to the First Lord of the Admiralty. Roger Doyle leads the orchestra and cast into seas of silliness. JAMES BASH. Mago Hunt Center Theater, University of Portland, 5000 North Willamette Blvd., 943-7287. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. June 9-25. $23-$25.

Mozart's Requiem

If you missed the Oregon Symphony performances of Mozart's beloved masterpiece, then you should hear this concert by the Portland State University Choir, Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra. Bruce Browne directs PSU's voices and instrumentalists, who will be performing the same Robert Levin edition that the Symphony did. JAMES BASH. Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-3250, 771-3250. 3 pm Saturday, June 10. $21.50-$26.50.

Oregon Guitar Quartet Recital

Guitarists David Franzen, Ian Luxton, John Mery and Peter Zisa will blend their strings in an evening of classical pieces by Hayden, Piazzola, Sibelius, Vivaldi and others. JAMES BASH. Portland Conservatory of Music, 9100 SW Wilshire St., 810-9100. 7 pm Saturday, June 10. $8-$16.

Pacific Crest Wind Symphony

The ensemble dedicates its final concert of the season to Dr. William Tuttle, who is retiring from his position as director of the orchestra. The program features pieces by Francois J. Gossec, K.L. King, Gustav Holst, Eric Whitacre, Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Russell Bennett. Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU, 1620 SW Park, 285-7621. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 10. $10, $6 seniors and students, $25 family.

You're the Top

Swing into the summer with easy-listening tunes by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin played by the David York Ensemble. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 721-0262. 8 pm Saturday, 5 pm Sunday, June 10-11. $15-$25.

Mostly Mozart

Yaacov Bergman conducts the Portland Chamber Orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and his Violin Concerto No. 3. The program also features Beethoven's terrific "Triple Concerto." JAMES BASH. Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-3250. 8 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, June 10-11. $20-$25.

American Vistas

The 100-plus voices of the Portland Symphonic Choir perform a variety of pieces from the American songbook, ranging from traditional hymns such as "Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal" to 20th-century works including Norman Dinerstein's "When David Heard" and Howard Hanson's "Cherubic Hymn." Steven Zopfi directs the ensemble in this final concert of its 60th year. St. Mary's Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St., 223-1217. 2 and 8 pm Sunday, June 11. $20-$25.

Metropolitan Youth Symphony and 3 Leg Torso

Lajos Balogh directs the orchestra in César Franck's dramatic "Symphony in D" and in original symphonic works with special guest 3 Leg Torso. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 239-4566. 3 pm Sunday, June 11. $6-$32.

Lisa Mooyman

Soprano Lisa Mooyman sings a works by Handel, Mozart, Wolf, Bolcum and others. St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 6700 NE 29th Ave., Concordia University. 3 pm Sunday, June 11. Free.

DANCE

Derailed

Choreographer Faith Hunt Levine (with an able corps of five dancers) presents an evening-length program of solos and group dances that mine the possibly uncomfortable realm of neurosis. Performance Works NorthWest, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907 or 801-583-3052. 8 pm Friday-Sunday, June 8-10. $10-$15 sliding scale

Swan Lake

Christopher Stowell's undertaking of Portland's first-ever complete Swan Lake should render all other "events," Rose Fest included, dull and decidedly unglorious. A ravishing tale of love imagined, found and lost, Swan Lake is iconic, urgent, universal and, in essence, timeless. With Tchaikovsky's butter-rich, romantic score performed by full orchestra; the Stowell-meets-Petipa/Ivanov choreographic troika riding high; and the best of OBT on hand (Alison Roper and Yuka Iino alternate in the Odette/Odile role for evening and matinee shows), this is true, reverential spectacle without gimmick or multimedia gewgaw. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 222-5538. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, June 9-11. $28-$96.