Performance Jordan Harrison’s dystopic sci-fi drama takes its name from Paul Renner’s sans-serif typeface, employed by Volkswagen, HP and, until recently, IKEA, but its subject is more PMN Caecilia, the default font on the Kindle. More
Futura (Portland Center Stage)
Beware Jeff Bezos!
Performance Jordan Harrison’s dystopic sci-fi drama takes its name from Paul Renner’s sans-serif typeface, employed by Volkswagen, HP and, until recently, IKEA, but its subject is more PMN Caecilia, the default font on the Kindle. More
The Wonderful World Of Dissocia (Third Rail)
Maureen Porter in the realms of the unreal.
Performance To call this bizarre comedy by English playwright Anthony Neilson a departure from Third Rail Rep’s usual fare is inadequate. The first act of The Wonderful World of Dissocia contains More
The Imaginary Invalid (Portland Center Stage)
Who’s up for some 17th-century fart gags?
Performance Why has Molière endured? No other non-Anglophone playwright of any century has anything approaching the 17th-century Frenchman’s presence in the English-speaking world. Colleges don’ ... More
99 Ways To Fuck A Swan (Theatre Vertigo)
Ever wondered what Leda saw in that bird?
Performance A lot goes on in Kim Rosenstock’s survey of sexual deviance, directed in its world premiere production by Megan Kate Ward. Not, as the title suggests, a swan sutra, the show crosses centuries an ... More
Native Soil
Portland’s Fertile Ground fest turns three.
Performance For the theatergoer weary of endless revivals of The Odd Couple and To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s a bonanza: In the next 10 days, Portland will see no fewer than 68 performances of new works of th ... More
Doug Elkins And Friends
Performance If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, parody must run a close second. How else to explain the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization letting New York-based contemporary choreographer Doug Elkins ... More
Superior Donuts (Artists Rep)
Tracy Letts’ latest is a finger-choppin’ sitcom.
Performance Tracy Letts made his name with an act of one-upmanship: August: Osage County, which earned Letts both a Pulitzer and a Tony, is the dysfunctional family drama to end them all, an emotionally draining ... More
A December Feast (In Mulieribus)
An ethereal antidote to Christmas schmaltz.
Performance ’Tis the season of overfamiliar musical comfort food, so this unusual repast from one of the Northwest’s premier vocal ensembles, the all-women early music group In Mulieribus (“amon ... More
A Christmas Story (Portland Center Stage)
Save yourself some holiday angst and just rent the movie.
Performance We all already know what Ralphie wants for Christmas. The American consciousness has been imprinted with holiday visions of sexy leg lamps, oversize pink bunny suits and, of course, the “officia ... More
Dying City (Portland Playhouse)
The passive-aggressive autopsy of a warrior.
Performance It is a year after the death, and Kelly is boxing up her books while watching Law & Order. The doorbell buzzes. She blanches. Then the television responds: chung CHUNG! From the outset, Christopher Sh ... More
Top Articles from Performance
Body Awareness (Coho Productions)
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. The Scene (Portland Playhouse)
How to succeed in show business without really trying. One Night With Janis Joplin (PCS)
Miles and miles and miles of heart. 99 Ways To Fuck A Swan (Theatre Vertigo)
Ever wondered what Leda saw in that bird? Bust (Portland Center Stage)
Lauren Weedman gets the jailhouse blues. Futura (Portland Center Stage)
Beware Jeff Bezos! Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Summer Spock theater. Hairspray (Broadway Rose)
A big, campy dance party—in Tigard. The Wonderful World Of Dissocia (Third Rail)
Maureen Porter in the realms of the unreal. The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Artists Rep)
Come for the laughs, stay for the body-chopping.
Our bodies, our very complicated selves. The Scene (Portland Playhouse)
How to succeed in show business without really trying. One Night With Janis Joplin (PCS)
Miles and miles and miles of heart. 99 Ways To Fuck A Swan (Theatre Vertigo)
Ever wondered what Leda saw in that bird? Bust (Portland Center Stage)
Lauren Weedman gets the jailhouse blues. Futura (Portland Center Stage)
Beware Jeff Bezos! Trek in the Park (Atomic Arts)
Summer Spock theater. Hairspray (Broadway Rose)
A big, campy dance party—in Tigard. The Wonderful World Of Dissocia (Third Rail)
Maureen Porter in the realms of the unreal. The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Artists Rep)
Come for the laughs, stay for the body-chopping.
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