Performance Talk about dedication to your craft: To prepare a show about the awkward intimacies and allegiances of family life, the members of Hand2Mouth Theatre spent a month in late winter sharing a single A-fr ...   More

Performance When a theater company commissions a playwright in the flush of his career to adapt a canonical work, it is banking on a bold new interpretation. When that play is Chekhov’s Three Sisters and th ...   More

Performance We have it anecdotally that on the morning after Rigoletto’s premiere, theatergoers sang “La Donna e Mobile” in the streets of Venice. You may not think you know that canzone, but yo ...   More

Performance Amalia, the woman with no arms and no legs, sits on her pedestal day in, day out, quietly doing Kegels under the shroud of her dress. Judith, the dog-faced girl, mumbling through her cleft lip, brushe ...   More

Performance A pair of Australians, Chunky Move’s Gideon Obarzanek and choreographer Lucy Guerin, have devised one of the most frustrating, fun and inquisitive dance-theater hybrids to come to town for quite ...   More

Performance Times are tough for everyone, but America’s cultural institutions are taking a beating. Last autumn’s stock market crash put severe stress on the endowments of the major cultural trusts an ...   More

Performance “If we were a band, I’d say, ‘We’re making a live album and you’re all going to be a part of it,’” said BodyVox co-founder Jamey Hampton, as he welcomed a cap ...   More

Performance OhmyGod, ohmygod don’tpickme. Touch me. TOUCHMEEEE. That’s a lot of sweat. Jesus, my socks probably smell. She almost hit me. During Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk’s STAU, presen ...   More

Performance When composer David Bernstein retired after 28 years on the Cleveland State University music faculty and moved to Portland, he encountered three surprises: His new home boasted two veteran chamber ens ...   More

Performance With Oscar Wilde’s unrelentingly witty comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, Portland Center Stage presents its second, unexpectedly relevant, classic of the season: First came Guys Dolls, se ...   More