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Going Deep on Bottoming for Jesus
Michael Holt's first solo show is both "a send up and a love letter" to his years as a closeted gay in the Mormon Church.
Michael Holt's first solo show is both "a send up and a love letter" to his years as a closeted gay in the Mormon Church.
The Brothers Size Breaks the Fourth Wall, Fractures the Whole
Portland Center Stage’s production of a play by the co-writer of Moonlight is exciting but feels uneven.
Portland Center Stage’s production of a play by the co-writer of Moonlight is exciting but feels uneven.
Imago's Salome Is Tied Together by the Dance of the Seven Veils
Jaiden Wirth and Max Bernsohn reprise the onstage intensity we recently saw between them in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Jaiden Wirth and Max Bernsohn reprise the onstage intensity we recently saw between them in A Streetcar Named Desire.
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.
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.
Third Rail Repertory never proves the existence of God, but it does make a case.
Theater Review: The Spectrum According to Sapience
Artists Repertory Theatre's new play is as much a romantic love triangle as it is a charming interplay of intelligent apes and autism spectrum.
Artists Repertory Theatre's new play is as much a romantic love triangle as it is a charming interplay of intelligent apes and autism spectrum.
Theater Review: The Antipodes Attract
Shaking the Tree’s captivating production rewards audiences who enjoy sitting with big questions.
Shaking the Tree’s captivating production rewards audiences who enjoy sitting with big questions.
PETE Presents Faena—a Good-Time Comedy About Bullfighting
A new gender-swapping, bilingual play by Dylan Hankins feels like history's most deeply-researched sketch comedy premise.
A new gender-swapping, bilingual play by Dylan Hankins feels like history's most deeply-researched sketch comedy premise.
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.
Celebrated playwright Lauren Yee uses cycles of infertility and surrogacy to touch on something powerful and eternal.
A Streetcar Named Desire at Imago Warms up as It Goes
Tennessee Williams' tragedy foretells the doom of living in a dream.
Tennessee Williams' tragedy foretells the doom of living in a dream.
Björk Friday Is an Annual Anti-Thanksgiving Drag Show That's Been Happening for Seven Years
Every year, Portland drag performers gather on consumer culture’s greatest holiday and lip sync to Björk.
Every year, Portland drag performers gather on consumer culture’s greatest holiday and lip sync to Björk.
Portland Drag Queen, Sue from Corporate, Bids the Scene "Sue Long" For Now
Sue delivers talking points on how many wigs it takes to move cross-country, and why nothing is scarier than corporate culture.
Sue delivers talking points on how many wigs it takes to move cross-country, and why nothing is scarier than corporate culture.
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.
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.
Theater Review: Wicked Found Wanting
The beloved musical is stuck in 2003, which feels a little weird two decades later.
Mikki Gillette's Hero's / Healer's Journey Begins With a Content Warning
No More Candy is charming and adorable, even as its characters work through very heavy traumas.
Portland Opera Makes
History Come Alive
Our Oregon debuts commissioned work about poet and advocate Shizue Iwatsuki.
What Art Goes
With Your Job?
Make art, truth, and beauty
work for you for a change.
TBA Review: Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz Commands Sonic Space
Freed from the confines of predictable harmony, riotous sound can stimulate emotional release.
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?
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.
TBA Review: Te Moana Meridian Proposes Moving the Prime Meridian
Sam Hamilton makes a solid proposal; Mere Tokorahi Boynton sings it in te reo Māori.
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.
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.
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.
Ponder the Mysteries of Greg in Middletown Mall
Third Rail Repertory Theatre closes out their season in a mall wasteland.
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
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.
Monét X. Change's Life Be Lifin’ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prolab Dance’s Latest Work Unfolded Physically, Virtually, and Upon the Ceiling of Kendall Planetarium
when we were Ocean was intentionally overwhelming but delightful in its exploration.
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.
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.
Theater Preview: I’m in Control Which Means Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to Me
The mentorship of PETE Presents brings us philosophical flashes of hot mess.
Amy Leona Havin and Holding Project Create a Nonstop Flurry of Movement and Memory
The horse masks were a nice touch.
Dracula, a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really Is Easy, Entertaining, and Empowering
Portland Center Stage got you horror for the holidays.
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.
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 Review: Portland Center Stage’s Hair “Lets the Sunshine In”
A gifted cast sings new life into the anti-war Vietnam-era musical.
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.
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.
The Mercury's 48-Hour Drag-A-Thon Live Blog
Darcelle XV Showplace and Wildfang broke a Guinness World Record—here's what happened!
Goths on Cabaret at PETE's Cardiac Organ
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble starts dark but stays camp with "Cardiac Organ: A Goth Cabaret."
You Don’t 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."
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.
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.
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.
Theater Review: Artists Repertory Theatre’s True Story Packs a Hard-Boiled Punch
Oregon playwright E. M. Lewis has penned a timeless noir play.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Theater Review: The Value of Forbidden Fruit
Shaking the Tree celebrates its 20th anniversary and raises the bar with a masterful hybrid play.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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