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Theater & Performance
All articles tagged "Theater & Performance"
Music
Oct 2
3:00 PM
Portland Opera Makesâ¨History Come Alive
Our Oregon debuts commissioned work about poet and advocate Shizue Iwatsuki.
Robert Ham
Music
Sep 20
11:00 AM
Portland Opera Makes the Forgotten Resistance of Shizue Iwatsuki Come Alive
Robert Ham
Culture
Sep 18
11:00 AM
What Art Goesâ¨With Your Job?
Make art, truth, and beautyâ¨work for you for a change.
HR Smith
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TBA
Sep 18
10:30 AM
TBA Review: Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz Commands Sonic Space
Freed from the confines of predictable harmony, riotous sound can stimulate emotional release.
Lindsay Costello
Theater & Performance
Sep 17
8:00 AM
Risk/Rewardâs Election Anti-Party Is a Variety Show (for the Politically Overwhelmed)
Wm. Steven Humphrey
TBA
Sep 13
4:07 PM
TBA Review:
Goner
Contains Some of the Best Booty-Shaking You'll Ever See
Is Malik Nashad Sharpe's choreography a means of torture, escape, or memory?
Suzette Smith
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TBA
Sep 10
1:05 PM
TBA Review: If You Want Solitude, Stay Far Away From Club Alive
Kye Grant's monthly, genre-fluid event blends participatory art and dance parties.
Lindsay Costello
Theater & Performance
Sep 9
4:47 PM
TBA Review:
Te Moana MeridianÂ
Proposes Moving the Prime Meridian
Sam Hamilton makes a solid proposal; Mere Tokorahi Boynton sings it in te reo MÄori.
Suzette Smith
Visual Art
Sep 3
3:00 PM
The
Mercury
's Time-Based Art Festival Picks
Don't miss the dance parties, itty bitty music collages, and complete cacophonies—planning your TBA 2024 itinerary is an art form in itself.
Martha Daghlian
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TBA
Aug 7
10:30 AM
Portland's Favorite Experimental, Time Based Art Festival Bounces Back
On the TBA 2024 schedule: weird music, Black horror, and an opera about the prime meridian.
Martha Daghlian
Theater & Performance
Jun 24
1:00 PM
Portland Drag Clown Carla Rossi Climbed Jeffery Gibson's Installation at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Artist Jeffery Gibson invited Carla Rossi to climb his installation on the US pavilion.
Suzette Smith
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.
John Rudoff
Theater & Performance
May 30
12:00 PM
Portland Playwright Mikki Gillette Imagines Warhol Superstars Behind the Scenes
Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, and Jackie Curtis never quite escape the Factory of
Blonde on a Bum Trip
Andrew Jankowski
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.
John Rudoff
Comedy
Apr 29
1:30 PM
MonĂŠt X. Change's
Life Be Lifinâ
Tour Delayed, "But She's Still Coming Mama"
Former Portlander Kevin Bertin says they want to take a step back to focus on writing music.
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Apr 25
1:30 PM
Theater Review: Shaking the Tree Simmers the Bones of a Fairy Tale Into a Feast
If you see one play about loss and rebirth this spring,
The Brother and the Bird
should be it.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Apr 9
2:06 PM
Theater Review: Don't Google
Nassim
The co-production of Boom Arts and Portland Center Stage shouldn't be spoiled, but we have a few tips you can know.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Mar 20
2:00 PM
Peachy Springs Is Portland's Premiere Hard-Working, Foul-Mouthed Bingo Drag Queen
They play for two tight hours and cash prizes. They stay for Springs’ delightfully abusive crowd work.
Andrew Jankowski
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.
John Rudoff
Theater & Performance
Mar 5
2:00 PM
Poison Waters Turns Up the Heat at Her Own Charity Roast
The Portland drag icon returned shade upon her roasters and raised over $3000 for a Cascade AIDS Project summer camp.
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Feb 23
3:41 PM
Theater Review: Shaking the Tree Explores the Overlap Between Posession and Inspiration
Even if you're not a fan of poetry, you can still appreciate the horror in Portland Playright Ken Yoshikawa's
We Wrote This With You in Mind
.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Feb 22
12:30 PM
Theater Review: Oregon Ballet Theatre's Peter Pan Is Exciting for Kids and Enthralling for Adults
Trey McIntyre's choreography excentuates the divide between youth and adulthood that is so central to J.M. Barrie's treasured tale.
Robert Ham
Theater & Performance
Feb 19
2:00 PM
Prolab Danceâs Latest Work Unfolded Physically, Virtually, and Upon the Ceiling of Kendall Planetarium
when we were Ocean
was intentionally overwhelming but delightful in its exploration.
Robert Ham
Theater & Performance
Feb 1
4:00 PM
Theater Review:
What the Constitution Means to Me
Questions Our Founding Document, From a Place of Love
Portland Center Stage's first production of 2024 was actually the most-produced play of 2023.
Suzette Smith
Culture
Dec 20
11:00 AM
Portland Remembers Patrick Buckmaster: The Club Kai Kai Creator, DJ, and Party Planner Has Died at 33
Buckmaster wove an appreciation of drag, music, and satire into a community-building practice.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Dec 15
11:00 AM
Theater Preview:
Iâm in Control Which Means Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to Me
The mentorship of PETE Presents brings us philosophical flashes of hot mess.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Dec 12
3:00 PM
Amy Leona Havin and Holding Project Create a Nonstop Flurry of Movement and Memory
The horse masks were a nice touch.
Robert Ham
Theater & Performance
Dec 6
11:00 AM
Dracula, a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
Is Easy, Entertaining, and Empowering
Portland Center Stage got you horror for the holidays.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Nov 1
4:05 PM
Theater Review:
Blood Wedding
Soars and Stumbles
Frederico García Lorca's tragedy of doom and revenge is so relevant, we wonder if Shaking the Tree is psychic.
Suzette Smith
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.
John Rudoff
Theater & Performance
Oct 24
2:00 PM
Theater Review: Portland Center Stageâs
Hair
âLets the Sunshine Inâ
A gifted cast sings new life into the anti-war Vietnam-era musical.
Taylor Griggs
Movies & TV
Oct 6
8:00 AM
David Byrne Takes Over Tomorrow Theater's Opening Weekend
A look inside the renovated former adult movie house that Portland Art Museum turned into a 250-seat movie and performance venue.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Sep 22
4:40 PM
Red Door's Streamlined
Evolve Experience
Is Ready for the Road
The hot button show about police and the public is not trying to entertain. That doesn't mean it's not engrossing.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Sep 20
7:00 AM
Forced to Suspend Its 2023/24 Season, Artists Repertory Theatre Keeps Building
TJ Acena
Theater & Performance
Sep 7
7:00 AM
Portland's Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) Goes Time-Released
Martha Daghlian
Theater & Performance
Jul 10
2:00 PM
The
Mercury
's 48-Hour Drag-A-Thon Live Blog
Darcelle XV Showplace and Wildfang broke a Guinness World Record—here's what happened!
Mercury Arts Crew
Theater & Performance
Jun 29
11:00 AM
Goths on Cabaret at PETE's Cardiac Organ
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble starts dark but stays camp with "Cardiac Organ: A Goth Cabaret."
TJ Acena
Theater & Performance
Jun 27
12:00 PM
You Donât Have to Be Drunk to Love Drunk Herstory
Creator and host Shandi Evans says the comedy drag night's first sober storyteller told "hands down the most insane story we've ever done."
Sam Pape
Comedy
Jun 14
5:34 PM
An Oral History of LMAO Comedy Parody
Road House: The Play!
An interview with the two hilarious women who wrote it—Shelley McLendon and Courtenay Hameister.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Jun 14
11:50 AM
Jumping Onto Portland's Epic Drag-A-Thon Is the Hottest Celebrity Trend
Tickets are now on sale for this historic attempt and Trevor Project fundraiser.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Jun 1
3:00 PM
Wildfang and Darcelle XV Showplace Will Attempt to Set a New Guinness World Record
These queens are standing up to—and raising money to fight—the Tennessee drag ban and other anti-drag bills in the US.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
May 17
10:58 AM
Theater Review: Artists Repertory Theatreâs
True Story
Packs a Hard-Boiled Punch
Oregon playwright E. M. Lewis has penned a timeless noir play.
John Rudoff
Theater & Performance
May 12
7:30 AM
Q&A With PICA's Outgoing and Incoming Executive Directors
After 20 years, Victoria Frey passes the torch to Reuben Roqueñi —who has been involved with PICA for over a decade.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Apr 18
12:30 PM
Theater Review: Nikki Kuhnhausen Was an
American Girl
Mikki Gillette's new play draws from deep conversations with Kuhnhausen’s mother to show her daughter's real life.
Elanor Broker
Theater & Performance
Apr 14
3:28 PM
The Siren Theater Moves from Old Town to North Mississippi
The space's April 22 grand opening kicks off with the Aces, but they're already hosting smaller stand-up shows.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Mar 30
3:30 PM
Touring Musical
Hairspray
Will Leave You Bubbly
Despite some sound issues, we were won over by John Waters' story and the adaption's irreverent, infectious fun.
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Mar 20
11:00 AM
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
Music
Mar 13
12:00 PM
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
Theater & Performance
Mar 6
11:00 AM
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
Theater & Performance
Jan 17
10:43 AM
Theater Preview: PETEâs
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
Theater & Performance
Oct 11
11:24 AM
Shaking the Treeâs 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
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: AlegrĂa
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
Theater & Performance
May 26
4:26 PM
Legendary
Recap of Episodes 1-3: Portland's House of Ada Struts Onscreen as Fairies, Then Frogs
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
May 18
10:19 AM
House of Ada to Represent Portland's Ballroom Culture Scene on Season 3 of HBO's
Legendary
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Mar 18
12:08 PM
The Acesâ
Lives of the Party
Review: Ten Years of Sketch Comedy Yield Their Best Dog Impression Yet
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Mar 9
10:00 AM
How to Be Picked as a Human Sacrifice at Taylor Macâs
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
Mar 5
3:00 PM
Whatâs Coming up Soon from Our List of 30 Arts Events to Check Out in Portland This Spring?
EverOut Staff
Theater & Performance
Mar 2
10:16 AM
In
The Queers
, Mikki Gillette Writes Real, Unflinching Stories about the Transgender Experience
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Feb 7
12:44 PM
Theater Review:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Returns to the Ellyn Bye and to Rocking Your Face Off
Elinor Jones
Theater & Performance
Feb 2
12:08 PM
Theater Review:
The Great Leap
's Basketball Drama May Be Predictable, but Makes Surprise Moves At the Buzzer
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Dec 29
1:00 PM
Broke Gravy Improv Trio Holding Show at Curious Comedy: âIâm chomping at the bit to get back on stage."
Chase Hutchinson
Theater & Performance
Nov 30
11:00 AM
FREE TICKETS TUESDAY: Enter to Win Tix to See
The Moth
Mainstage, Jake Shimabukuro, & Sebastian Bach!
Mercury Promotions
Theater & Performance
Nov 23
9:56 AM
FREE TICKETS TUESDAY: Enter to Win Tix to See
O Christmas Tea
, Beabadoobee, and Lettuce!
Mercury Promotions
Theater & Performance
Nov 16
10:00 AM
FREE TICKETS TUESDAY: Enter to Win Tix for the Cowboy Junkies, Last Podcast on the Left, & The Moth Mainstage!
Mercury Promotions
Theater & Performance
Nov 10
10:56 AM
Q&A:
Mean Girls: The Musical
Star Mary Kate Morrissey Helps Weird Art Kids Feel Less Alone
Elinor Jones
Theater & Performance
Oct 29
1:01 PM
Portlandâs Haunted House Actors Are Thrilled to Be Scaring You Again
Blair Stenvick
Theater & Performance
Oct 29
10:21 AM
Scary-Funny Improv Show
Murder Mystery Machine
Is â
Scooby-Doo
Meets
Saw
â
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Oct 8
10:00 AM
Comedian Jacqueline Novak Brings One-Woman Show to Portland: âThe most highbrow show about blowjobs youâll ever see!â
Blair Stenvick
Theater & Performance
Oct 6
1:04 PM
Q&A: Siren Theaterâs
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Play!
Creator-Director Shelley McLendon on Making Horror Funny
Chase Hutchinson
Theater & Performance
Sep 22
10:00 AM
An Oregon Christian Summer Camp Gets Skewered in Hilarious Stage Show
Wild Wild Christian
Blair Stenvick
Theater & Performance
Aug 9
10:03 AM
Remembering Experimental Drag-Punk Icon, Phatima Rude
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
Jun 3
2:35 PM
Martha Bakes
Centers a Revolutionary Slave, Plus More Vanport Mosaic Picks
Blair Stenvick
Theater & Performance
Jun 1
10:01 AM
Gen Zâs Voice Narrates Portland Playwrightâs Award-Winning Drama
Andrew Jankowski
Theater & Performance
May 13
12:50 PM
Portland Slam Poet Jordan Wolmut on Trauma, Performance, and Her Poem
Trigger Warning
Blair Stenvick
Theater & Performance
Oct 30
11:11 AM
Just In Time for Halloween, Siren Theater Unleashes
Blair Witch Project
Parody
Wm. Steven Humphrey
Theater & Performance
Sep 11
10:20 AM
TBA:20 Begins This Weekend to Make Note of a Time We'll Never Forget
Suzette Smith
Theater & Performance
May 22
8:30 AM
The Best Things To Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Fri May 22
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
May 18
2:23 AM
The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Mon May 18
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
May 16
7:59 AM
The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Sat May 16
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
May 11
9:00 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon May 11
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
May 4
7:57 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon, May 4
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
May 1
8:05 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri May 1
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
Apr 30
8:20 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 30
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
Apr 23
10:30 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 23
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
Apr 13
10:00 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon April 13
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
Apr 11
10:30 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 11
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
Apr 10
11:15 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri April 10
Mercury Staff
Theater & Performance
Apr 7
10:29 AM
The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues April 7
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