316 stories from Oregon ArtsWatch
Review: Portland Center Stage kicks off its season with Eboni Booth's 2024 Pulitzer winner, featuring Larry Owens of "Abbott Elementary" as a surprising and complex hero.
Keiko Green's contemporary Shakespearean riff of a play, set in a college dorm, keeps the mood mostly light in Artists Rep's entertaining season-opener.
Mikki Gillette's first musical premieres at Fuse Theatre Ensemble, while Shaking the Tree Theatre stages a dancing rebellion. Plus the Stage Fright Festival, other opening shows, continuing …
Portland Playhouse's not-to-be-missed production of Dominique Morisseau's brilliant "Paradise Blue" sets a private drama against the larger cultural crisis of a thriving Black community on t…
The juggling and acrobatic stars of the California-based touring circus troupe bring their physical marvels to Vancouver, Wash., for seven shows Oct. 2-5.
In William Thomas Berk's new play "Anno Machina: An Apocalyptic Elegy," a surviving Human Service Unit is left to find its own emotions and meaning in life.
Plus: Sunstone's "The Grown-Ups," Shake&Pop's "Midsummer Night's Dream," Stage Fright Queer Horror Fest, Fuse's "Magnetic Electric," Portland Playhouse's "Paradise Blue," more opening an…
Oregon author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's new biography chronicles how the creator of the smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" reached impossible heights.
An evening of storytelling, mariachi music and dance tells the tales of a vibrant United States culture of variety and counters the upswell of anti-immigrant sentiment.
A spectacular season of new shows, musicals, and more looms as Portland Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Experience Theatre Project and others inaugurate new seasons. Plus: The launch of 1…
Preview: Peter Hargrave revels in the role he's played in the musical's Broadway tour more than 1,000 times: "I like to think Scar is the fan favorite. It is an iconic Disney villain."
Review: At Triangle Productions, a conservative baker must decide whether she'll make the cake for a lesbian wedding.
Review: In E.M. Lewis's moving and masterfully written new play at 21ten Theatre, a brother and sister return to the scene of their fraught childhood and face down the demons.
This weekend, Bag&Baggage's reimagined "The Glass Menagerie" and Speculative Drama's immersive "Pericles" are opening. Plus other new and continuing shows and theater news.
The Broadway tour of the hit musical "Some Like It Hot" swings into Portland starting Tuesday, and understudy Bryan Thomas Hunt is coming to his home town with it.
Ashland's high-flying popular company, thriving after 10 years under Rick Robinson and Val Rachelle's leadership, honors its origins as it prepares to launch its 41st season.
The final two shows of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2025 season rethink a classic Western and Cervantes' "Don Quixote" in fresh and stimulating ways.
The Oregon playwright's newest, opening at 21Ten Theatre, spins a small-town story of tart memories and emotional isolation on a family farm.
The Hatchery is introducing two shows at its festival of new works, and Milagro Theatre is premiering "Worry Dolls" by Portland native Maya Malan Gonzalez. Plus: Other opening plays, continu…
In the University of Oregon's riveting production of Salmah Sabawi's play at Portland Center Stage, characters still laugh and love in the midst of war.
The comic and dramatic actor, part of an acting family and a welcome figure on stages from Portland to Ashland, gathered a host of friends in her 35 years of life.
Javier "Javi" Dubon, in his new role at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival less than two months, is leading with a collaborative approach, bent toward understanding audiences " "what makes them…
Review: With sparkly costumes and snazzy performances, Broadway Rose stages a de-lovely production of the classic Cole Porter musical.
Danyelle Tinker, a co-founder of North Portland's Twilight Theater Company, is bringing innovative and accessible shows to Oregon's North Coast. Plus: Fresh openings, holdover shows.
Who's on first? Clackamas Rep's bright and sassy revival of the 1950s musical-comedy hit about a phenom who comes out of nowhere beats the Devil at his own nefarious game.
