Drinks Before or After?

A guide to Portland art and performance venues, and where to talk about the show—after the show.

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.

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.

The Future of YACHT Rock

After a screening of The Computer Accent YACHT will play the album they used AI to create

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fucking A with a Capital Abortion

"You cannot do this play without talking about race," Shaking the Tree's Samantha Van Der Merwe says.

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Power-Hungry Politicos vs. Change, New Seasons' New Union, and a Chick-fil-A Strip Club?

The Shoebox Is Now 21ten Theatre

And two Portland actresses are now Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Air You Ready to Rock?

US Air Guitar Nationals Brings the Thunder (But No Instruments)

Is Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble's The Cherry Orchard a Stage Play or a Spell?

Fire Jugglers and Shirtless Acrobats Make Cirque du Soleil: Alegría Cirque Do So Slay