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FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME is a joyous celebration of music and life and the act of creating something together. Read our BWW critic's review.

Looking for a thrill? TITUS, Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, is now running at Portland Playhouse.

GEM OF THE OCEAN is one of the last plays August Wilson wrote, but it’s the first chronologically in his Century Cycle. Set in the 1900s, GEM OF THE OCEAN deals with questions of freedom and the balance between morality and law.

This new devised work from Shaking the Tree is exhilarating, thought-provoking, and necessary.

MAZ AND BRICKS is a tender two-hander about finding connection with unexpected people in unexpected places.

There are two big reasons to take in the national touring production of ANASTASIA, now running at Keller Auditorium: Kyla Stone (who plays the central character) and the visual spectacle.

Lauren Yee’s play, inspired in part by her father, is everything we’ve come to expect from this exceptional playwright – it’s gripping, funny, emotional, and will leave you with plenty to chew on.

THURGOOD is a riveting play about the life and career of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to sit on the US Supreme Court.

Wash your cares away! HONKY TONK LAUNDRY is a country music jukebox musical delivering 2 hours of pure delight.

Fertile Ground 2022 officially kicked off yesterday! Portland’s 13th annual festival of new works runs through Feb. 6.

GLORIA, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2015 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, speaks with eerie coincidence to two of the biggest national conversations taking place today.

THE BAND'S VISIT is a gorgeous musical about the transformative power of music.

Though THE CURIOUS INCIDENT… premiered in 2012 and is based on a book published in 2003, it’s difficult to imagine a play better suited to these weird times.

BARBECUE is laugh-out-loud funny while also shining a big bright spotlight on things we’d rather keep hidden. Highly recommended.

The story of Afong Moy, the central character in Lloyd Suh’s THE CHINESE LADY, now running at Artists Rep, so perfectly captures the American tendency to exotify, stereotype, and disparage other cultures that I should not have been surprised to learn that it’s true.

MARTHA BAKES gets to the real story behind the mythology that George Washington freed all his slaves upon his death.

FRIDA...A SELF PORTRAIT is not just a play, but a movement piece and a series of paintings brought vividly to life.

Celine Song's FAMILY is a surreal look at the messy self-perpetuating cycle of violence.

Set in during the Jacobite uprisings of 1745, LOCH LOMOND, which is currently having its world premiere at Broadway Rose, is at once a sweeping musical about desire (for independence, for glory, for love) and an intimate look at the many ties that bind people together.

CAMPFIRE STORES, a joint storytelling production from Back Fence PDX and Artists Rep, provided intimacy at a safe social distance.