John Rudoff

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

Recent Articles

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.

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.

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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