If you want traditional productions with beautiful sets and Equity casts: Portland Center Stage or Artists Repertory Theatre If I were going to take a grandparent to see theater in Portland, I’d take them to either Artists Repertory Theatre or Portland Center Stage. Both places put on well-produced plays that make for a nice, if […]
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Where To See Theater, Stand-Up, or Improv in Portland
There Really is Something for Everyone—Even If You’re a Teen
There Really is Something For Everyone—Even If You’re a Teen.
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You for Me for You Makes Theater Relevant Again
At Portland Playhouse, Mia Chung’s Surreal Take on North Korea
At Portland Playhouse, Mia Chung’s surreal portrait of North Korea.
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Idris Goodwin’s Hip-Hop Musical: Way More Than a Catchy Conceit
In How We Got On, a History of Hip-Hop—and Survival
In How We Got On, a history of hip-hop—and survival.
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Dystopian Visions of The Simpsons in Portland Playhouse’s Mr. Burns
Dystopian visions of The Simpsons in Portland Playhouse’s Mr. Burns.
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Light of the Mind
The Other Place Goes Inside Sharonlee McLean’s Brain
The Other Place goes inside Sharonlee McLean’s brain.
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A Cure for Process-Based Politics
How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes Is the Anti-City Council Meeting
How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes is the anti-city council meeting.
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The Complex Audience
Diversity in Portland Theater, Onstage and Off
The diversity of Portland’s theater, onstage and off.
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Unhappy Families
After the Revolution’s Painfully Precise Drama
After the Revolution is a painfully precise drama.
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Banishing Darkness with Light
Portland Playhouse’s Illuminating Jitney
Portland Playhouse’s Jitney is illuminating.
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American Dreams
Detroit: Not Actually About Detroit
Portland Playhouse’s excellent season opener Detroit: Not actually about Detroit.
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Adapting Le Guin
Theater and Sci Fi, Together at Last
The Left Hand of Darkness is staggeringly ambitious—and it fails.