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Theater & Performance
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Theater Review: The Value of
Forbidden Fruit
Shaking the Tree celebrates its 20th anniversary and raises the bar with a masterful hybrid play.
Suzette Smith
Oregon Symphony 2023-24 Season: Cancellations, Crowd-Pleasers, and Comebacks
Budget cuts nixed the 2023 free Waterfront Concert, but the rest of the calendar is built to bring audiences back.
Robert Ham
Front Porch Sessions Is a Loneliness-Destroying Storytelling Show
Chris Williams' community-building series is simple in format, but built from a dense amount of knowledge and experience.
Suzette Smith
Food and Drink
Mar 3
12:30 PM
Drinks Before or After?
A guide to Portland art and performance venues, and where to talk about the show—after the show.
Suzette Smith
&
Wm. Steven Humphrey
Theater & Performance
Feb 16
12:14 PM
My Perfectly Valid Objections
Airs the First Date Anxieties of Trans and Cis People
Portland playwright Mikki Gillette depicts the minefield trans women navigate, specifically while dating cis men.
Andrew Jankowski
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Theater & Performance
Jan 17
10:43 AM
Theater Preview: PETE’s
The Americans
Looks at Idealized America vs. the Real America
The provocative theater company pulls from Robert Frank's black-and-white photographs to prod at the tumultuous history of American social relations.
Conner Reed
Music
Oct 24
3:50 PM
The Future of YACHT Rock
After a screening of
The Computer Accent
YACHT will play the album they used AI to create
Robert Ham
Theater & Performance
Oct 21
10:59 AM
Even at Three Hours, Sorkin's
To Kill a Mockingbird
Is Riveting
Make it out to the touring production's short run at the Keller Auditorium while you have the chance.
Max Tapogna
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Theater & Performance
Oct 11
11:24 AM
Shaking the Tree’s Play About Abortion Contains More Than Politics
Suzan-Lori Parks wrote
Fucking A
in 2000, but the play remains an unflinching and prescient critique of today.
Max Tapogna
TBA
Sep 16
10:00 AM
TBA Review: Drag Clown Carla Rossi Clowns Harder
Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water
is a like a Jim Henson apocalpyse cult Greek tragedy.
Suzette Smith
TBA
Sep 14
1:40 PM
TBA Review: Adrienne Truscott Is the Centerpiece of
THIS
By the time Adrienne Truscott was on a scissor lift, sipping a glass of red wine, I had already given myself over to the dance.
McKinzie Smith
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Fall Arts 2022
Sep 12
8:08 AM
Fucking A
with a Capital Abortion
"You cannot do this play without talking about race," Shaking the Tree's Samantha Van Der Merwe says.
Max Tapogna
News
Sep 11
8:00 AM
YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Power-Hungry Politicos vs. Change, New Seasons' New Union, and a Chick-fil-A Strip Club?
Wm. Steven Humphrey
Theater & Performance
Jul 22
4:21 PM
The Shoebox Is Now 21ten Theatre
And two Portland actresses are now Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Suzette Smith
Music
Jul 14
1:12 PM
Air You Ready to Rock?
US Air Guitar Nationals Brings the Thunder (But No Instruments)
Elinor Jones
Theater & Performance
Jul 7
11:00 AM
Is Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble's
The Cherry Orchard
a Stage Play or a Spell?
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Jun 21
11:55 AM
Fire Jugglers and Shirtless Acrobats Make
Cirque du Soleil: Alegría
Cirque Do So Slay
Elinor Jones
Theater & Performance
Jun 14
10:21 AM
Kimber K. Shade and Isaiah Esquire Created Blackout as a Place to Be Queer and Unapologetically Black
Mx. Dahlia Belle
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