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
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
Chesapeake (Profile Theatre)
Todd Van Voris’ life as a dog.
Performance Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake is just as absurdly silly as it is politically dramatic. In this production, directed by Third Rail Repertory’s Scott Yarbrough, the ironic political satire achie ... More
Stage Left Lost (Imago Theatre)
Mr. Mouawad, I am confused.
Performance Jerry Mouawad doesn’t much seem to care whether audiences understand his work. Though he is the co-creator of the immediately accessible Frogz and Biglittlethings, Mouawad’s shows for adul ... More
Hansel And Gretel (Portland Opera)
Have your cake and be it too.
Performance Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel has always been an oddity in opera. Its music owes as much to the larky simplicities of folk songs and musical theater as it does to Wagnerian Sturm und ... More
Oregon Stories Of War (The Telling Project)
Listen to the voices for the forgotten wars.
Performance You probably don’t spend much time, on a day-to-day basis, thinking about war. I don’t. The country has been embroiled in violent overseas conflict since my last year of high school, leavi ... 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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