CoHo Has a New Vision for Pandemic-Era Theater. Will It Succeed?

The World Naked Bike Ride, Beerfest and 12 Other Things to Do and See in Portland June 20-26

Where we’ll be reading merman porn then getting naked on bikes this week.

“Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.” Pushes Up Against Our Limited Language For Discussing Gender

Third Rail Repertory Theatre is ending its season with Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Alice Birch’s whirlwind play that pushes up against our limited language for discussing gender through a series of destructive, occasionally violent vignettes.

Portland Gets its First Cannabis and Theater Pairing

Summerfest offers discounted prerolls to go with its plays.

What Would 80-Year-Old You Say?

The laws of time go out of the window at CoHo Theater, where this series of vignettes puts characters’ old and young selves in dialog. The ensemble piece explores six different lives, following characters like Dirk the dancer and Myra the social activist. The one connecting thread is age. Twelve actors ranging in age from 23 to 80 paired up in … Continue reading What Would 80-Year-Old You Say?

CoHo Theater Takes Us Back to Y2K

It’s 1999, at the height of Y2K panic, and a small-town Idaho newspaper created for long-haul truckers is failing. It doesn’t get much bleaker than that.

Behind The Yellow Wallpaper

CoHo Theatre’s premiere of The Yellow Wallpaper—based on a 1892 story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that’s notoriously force-fed to Lit 101 students—opens Friday.