331 stories from Oregon ArtsWatch
The Portland playwright, who spent several years at New Dramatists in New York City, is having a reading of her ice-bound, Oregon Book Award-winning drama at the Eastside Jewish Commons.
The Hillsboro performing arts education organization marks 16 years of teaching performing arts to local students with the world premiere of an original musical exploring issues close to hom…
Come up and see me: Season-enders from triangle, Bag&Baggage, Profile and Portland Center Stage in June, and OSF begins its outdoor shows. Plus: Risk/Reward Festival, other opening and c…
Built by volunteers, donors, and determination, the company has become a cornerstone of downtown life.
Third Rail Rep's production of Alistair McDowell's drama about five astronauts on Pluto who've lost touch with Earth is disorienting – and expertly performed.
The 25th anniversary tour of the hit musical, June 2-7 at Portland's Keller Auditorium, features "Dancing Queen," "The Winner Takes It All," "Mamma Mia," and more favorites.
Wong’s solo musical comedy, playing at Portland Center Stage, also digs deep as it schools us on rising food insecurity in the richest nation in the world.
Portland Chinatown Museum and The –Ism Project will present stories of the city's Chinese American population. Plus: The season-ending night of stories from Solo Speak.
Huertas brings his multiple skills to the OSF stage in this season's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Come From Away," and last year's "Lizard Boy," which he created.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2027 season will range from "Hamlet" to the broad comedy of "Shrek the Musical," with the world-premiere comedy "A Loco-Motive for Murder" and more in the n…
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in a podcast with Wong, whose solo show from Portland Center Stage and Boom Arts combines comedy with the serious plight for many of access to food.
Cosmic musings coexist with humor and romance in Craig Wright’s superbly acted play at 100 Lives Repertory.
It's true – and Howard Skora's "Freud on Cocaine," the featured play in Fuse Theatre's OUTwright Theatre Festival, tells the tale with comic zest and a whiff of darkness.
Broadway Rose's whimsical classic musical, Third Rail's sci-fi/horror, Center Stage explores food insecurity, UO Theatre explores our anti-immigrant crisis. Plus: More opening and continuing…
PSU's spring productions, led by a stylish, successful "Spring Awakening," highlighted expanded theater programming.
Set in the call-and-response culture of slam poetry, the show at Milagro Theatre boos Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric off the stage.
NPAN’s reading of Cherokee playwright DeLanna Studi’s new ‘I is for Invisible’ highlighted national commemoration of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Think you're too old for all the playful silliness in this cartoon musical comedy at Portland Playhouse? So why that big goofy grin on your face, oh-so-mature person?
Fuse Ensemble, PETE, Ashland Fringe and Vanport Mosaic are all featuring festivals this month. Plus: Opening and continuing shows and more new season announcements.
Portland Playhouse and Portland Center Stage combine on a lively production of Jame Ijames' updated version of "Hamlet," set amid a North Carolina barbecue bash.
The cast sings brilliantly … and so do the colorful costumes and choreography in Light Opera of Portland’s exuberant production of "The Gondoliers."
No raining on this parade: Melissa Gale shines in the role that made Barbra Streisand a superstar.
A staged reading of Sarah Overman's play at the new-works festival delves into the travails of Oregon's first woman lawyer, and the plight of women in the historic West.
From "Apple Hunters!" to "Boom Crash Love" to "The –Ism Storytellers Project" and more, the new-works festival's final two days offer a variety of fresh performances.
Playwrights Sandra de Helen, Sara Jean Accuardi, Genevieve Sage and Karen Romero offered a full festival experience, presenting shows in varying stages of development.
