Performance “A woman is a female who is human/ Designed for pleasing man, the human male/ A human male is pleased by many women/ And all the rest you hear is fairy tale,” sings Joe Theissen, his head ...   More

Performance The title of this 1995 revue by Jason Robert Brown is misleading—although the characters in these 19 songs find themselves in the midst of dramatic realizations, their situations aren’t, f ...   More

Performance Only in the musty museum world of classical music would white dinner jackets and ties qualify as “informal.” But that’s standard attire for the male musicians at summer festivals, in ...   More

Performance Two years ago the members of Hand2Mouth Theatre, tired of just telling Portlanders about the interesting new performances they’d seen at Seattle’s On the Boards festival, decided to bring ...   More

Performance Sixteen square feet might not seem like much, but you’d be surprised what Ten Tiny Dances participants have done with such a small space over the event’s 19 shows. Sojourn Theatre once sur ...   More

Performance Hot Gun, the latest effort of producer Jedediah Aaker and director Jeffrey Wonderful—the men responsible for the amped-up, oversexed rock opera Chariots of Rubber—re-imagines the unironic ...   More

Performance You should already know the rules for this Tony-winning contest: It’s a spelling bee, the winner of which will compete at nationals. A ragtag group of middle-school misfits are up for the spot, ...   More

Performance Intellectually, I’ve known that Anton Chekhov intended this, his last play, to be a comedy ever since I first read the translator’s notes in high school. But I always assumed the descripto ...   More

Performance Conor McPherson is the world’s greatest raconteur. The Irish playwright and screenwriter, whose plays Shining City and The Seafarer were both big hits on Portland stages in recent years, is a ma ...   More

Performance Third Rail Repertory’s rapid growth from a scrappy ensemble co-producing with CoHo to a beloved pillar of Portland’s theater scene has a lot to do with Craig Wright. The company included p ...   More