John Rudoff

John Rudoff is a photojournalist and documentary photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He also occasionally reviews theater. 

Recent Articles

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Is Cruel and Perfect From the Start

Portland Center Stage's breathtaking ensemble cast reveals the ties that bind and cut.

A Case for the Existence of God in a Mortgage Brokerage

Third Rail Repertory never proves the existence of God, but it does make a case.

Profile Theatre's Samsara Is a Comedy About Reproductive Imperialism and Desire

Celebrated playwright Lauren Yee uses cycles of infertility and surrogacy to touch on something powerful and eternal.

Theater & Performance Dec 4 11:30 AM

Theater Review: Waiting for Godot Is Samuel Beckett—Straight, No Chaser

Portland's Irish theater-focused company Corrib has devoted this season to Godot and works that respond to it.

Theater & Performance Oct 29 4:30 PM

Infinite Life: A Play About Pain That Hurts So Good

Third Rail Repertory kicks off its 2024-25 season with a work by contemporary theater star Annie Baker.

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Visual Art Sep 17 3:00 PM

Beatlemania Through the Eyes of a Beatle

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm provides the ultimate insider’s view of a singular cultural event.

Theater & Performance May 31 3:00 PM

Ponder the Mysteries of Greg in Middletown Mall

Third Rail Repertory Theatre closes out their season in a mall wasteland.

Theater & Performance May 10 2:30 PM

Theater Review: Hand2Mouth's Spring Show Speaks With the Living, the Dead, and Death

Memento Mori unfolds as a series of sketches, and when the actors speak, they kill.

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Theater & Performance Mar 7 2:00 PM

Theater Review: Sanctuary City Follows Two Undocumented Teens Through the Chaos of the US Immigration System

Third Rail Repertory deftly adapts Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok's gorgeous mosaic of lived experience.

Theater & Performance Oct 26 11:00 AM

Theater Review: Grab a Guinness and Two Pints at CoHo Theater

Third Rail Repertory's season opener is a gorgeous little diptych, two-hander play about a friendship between two Irishmen.

Theater & Performance May 17 10:58 AM

Theater Review: Artists Repertory Theatre’s True Story Packs a Hard-Boiled Punch

Oregon playwright E. M. Lewis has penned a timeless noir play.

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