315 stories from Oregon ArtsWatch
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.
The massive Broadway touring show, staging April 29-May 10 in Portland, is supported by Oregon natives associate company manager Ryan Mayfield and ensemble member Krista Wigle.
O'Brien, who's taken her shows on female sexuality as far as Scotland, is a festival favorite whose shows regularly sell out, including this year's "Igniting Desire." So she's added perform…
Portland Revels’ new musical, Fertile Ground, “Fat Ham,” “SpongeBob,” “Angels in America” and a magical “The Glass Menagerie” are flowering in Portland and beyond. Plus: Mo…
As the theater world emerges from the abyss of the Covid years, Portland's festival of new works features 80-plus projects – among them plays by Dylan Hankins, Lisa Collins, and Niels Trum…
The Ashland theater company dives into the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the human effects of the AIDS epidemic with staged readings running April 29-May 3.
Carissa Atallah's upcoming play at Milagro Theatre comes with a slam-poetry beat " and the company is looking for performers for an open-mic prologue before every show.
The Northwest Portland company carries on its rich clowning tradition as it transforms into a multipurpose theater center with partners Third Rail and PETE.
As Portland's 2026 festival of new works kicks off, Jonathan Hernandez' "The Mask I Wear" and Stefan Feurherdt's "Tethered" get ready to unveil themselves to the world.
Theater review: E.M. Lewis's warm and profound new play is the culmination of her six-year residency with Artists Repertory Theatre.
The city's annual festival of new works, a co-production between Portland Center Stage and Portland Playhouse, and new shows from Carol Triffle and Samantha Van Der Merwe will quench our thi…
From beginnings in Talent to Mary Poppins on Broadway, Steffanie Leigh brings it all back home with a new cabaret and an Agatha Christie mystery in Ashland.
Absurdist extraordinaire Triffle's newest play at Imago flirts with Sontag's famous definitions of Camp, with zaniness and affection for her characters amid a world gone mad.
Theater review: Triangle Productions' "The Savannah Sipping Society" offers a sweet comedic escape.
Ezra Weiss & Sarah Jane Hardy's popular 'Alice in Wonderland: a Jazz Musical' makes its first appearance at The Judy.
In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with Sandra de Helen, Josie Seid, Alisha Christiansen, and Erin Rachel about their projects in the April 10-26 new works festival.
Spring shows include powerful and inspiring performances of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Come From Away,' and 'A Raisin in the Sun.'
