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ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE


Portland, OR

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ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE’S (Artists Rep or ART) mission is to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks. The organization is committed to local artists and features a company of Resident Artists and professionals of varied theatre disciplines, who are a driving force behind Artists Rep’s creative output and identity.

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Elvis Costello's THE JULIET LETTERS Begins Portland Opera


by A.A. Cristi - November 13, 2024

Portland Opera will present THE JULIET LETTERS, a new collaboration between Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. ...

Review: THE EVENT! at Artists Repertory Theatre


by Krista Garver - October 24, 2024

What did our critic think of THE EVENT! at Artists Repertory Theatre?...

Profile Theatre to Present OUR ORANGE SKY in June


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 31, 2024

Profile Theatre will present OUR ORANGE SKY, exploring themes of resilience and community. Directed by Josh Hecht, this new play promises a compelling and thought-provoking experience. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Portland Opera To Go To Present Rossini's CINDERELLA This Fall


by Blair Ingenthron - August 27, 2023

Portland Opera to Go (POGO) will return this fall with a brand-new production of Rossini's fairytale charmer, Cinderella. This lively staging tells the story of Angelina (Cinderella) who longs for friendship and love and finds it in the most unexpected of places—a prince who is disguised as a servan...

Artists Repertory Theatre Suspends Production for the 2023-24 Season


by Stephi Wild - August 16, 2023

Artists Repertory Theatre has made the decision to suspend production of its previously planned 2023-24 Season. The company cites a lack of funding as the cause of the suspension....

E.M. Lewis Awarded The Mellon Foundation Playwright Residency At Artists Repertory Theatre E.M.


by A.A. Cristi - July 17, 2023

Local and renowned playwright and Resident Artist, E.M. Lewis has been awarded another three years of the Mellon Foundation Playwright Residency at Artists Repertory Theatre. The grant recognizes Lewis' outstanding contribution to the theatrical arts and provides a platform for continued development...

SAPIENCE Rolling World Premiere & More Set for Artists Repertory Theatre 2023/24 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 09, 2023

Artists Repertory Theatre has announced its 41st season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets!...

Review: TRUE STORY at Artists Repertory Theatre


by Krista Garver - May 16, 2023

What did our critic think of TRUE STORY at Artists Repertory Theatre?...

Honor-Winning SOU Graduate's Powerful New Play OUR UTOPIA, To Be Staged At Ashland New Plays Festival


by A.A. Cristi - April 19, 2023

On April 29 and 30, Ashland New Plays Festival continues its spring offerings with public readings of ANPF New Voices Playwright Carlos-Zenen Trujillo's powerful new work, Our Utopia, commissioned by Bag&Baggage Productions....

RED VELVET, WHO'S HOLIDAY! & More Set for Bag&Baggage Productions 2023/24 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 13, 2023

 Bag&Baggage Productions has announced their 2023-2024 season, the first under new Artistic Director Nik Whitcomb. ...

Past Shows

The Event!
The Event!
10/13 - 11/10/2024


Welcome to Cabbotville! Step right into this quaint Oregon town grappling with hard times since the logging mill closed. Enter Rudy, a queer kid whose ...

Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings


Artists Repertory Theatre is coming home! Each night, join us for one of the decades with  ART Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings , launching ...


Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual "Hot Wang Festival" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield ...

True Story
True Story
5/6 - 6/4/2023


A troubled writer, raw with grief from the death of his wife, is hired to ghostwrite the biography of a wealthy man accused of murdering ...

American Fast
American Fast
1/4 - 1/29/2023


An ART commission and launch of the Rolling World Premiere,  American Fast  centers on a top-ranked college basketball star leading her team into the Final ...

The Hombres
The Hombres
9/10 - 10/9/2022


Set in New Jersey, The Hombres offers a delicate, funny exploration of masculinity and intimacy of male friendships. Three Latino construction workers are drawn to ...

Mercury Festival 2022
Mercury Festival 2022
6/1 - 6/5/2022


Artists Repertory Theatre (ART) will hold a weeklong festival of in-person concert stagings of new plays and film screenings developed by ART during the 18 ...

The Children (Kirkwood)
4/15 - 5/15/2022


Two retired nuclear scientists reside in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Together they are going to live forever ...

Today Is My Birthday
Today Is My Birthday
7/1 - 12/31/2021


Emily is a would-be writer whose bubble life in NYC has popped. Finding life back home in Hawaii chaotic and unfulfilling, she becomes strangely activated ...

The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady
10/19 - 11/14/2021


Directed by Lava AlapaiThe Chinese Lady tells the story of fourteen-year-old Afong Moy as shes brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. ...

The Carlalogues
The Carlalogues
5/24 - 8/20/2021


Whatever Carla wants, Carla gets. And, little man, Carla wants an audience! Now! Sick of the pandemic and desperate to be back in the spotlight, ...

The Vertical City
The Vertical City
4/24 - 7/30/2021


During the pandemic-disrupted 2020/2021 theatre season, Artists Rep and The Actors Conservatory shifted focus to theatre works adapted into digital mediums, and co-produced a new ...

Drop the Mic
Drop the Mic
2/27 - 7/23/2021


DROP THE MIC is a storytelling project collaboration with Artists Rep and Back Fence PDX featuring the work of some of Portlands best storytellers: Chris ...

Magellanica
Magellanica
9/27 - 6/30/2021


A five-part audio drama, adapted from Mellon Playwright-in-Residence and Steinberg Award winning playwright, E.M. Lewis epic play MAGELLANICA that Artists Rep premiered in 2018. Immerse ...

The Berlin Diaries
The Berlin Diaries
1/24 - 6/30/2021


The Berlin Diaries, the autobiographical story of Andreas quest to untangle her familys history using her German-Jewish great-grandfathers diary, to be released to ART audiences ...

Indecent
2/19 - 3/8/2020


NDECENT, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (Vineyard's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE and THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME) and award-winning director Rebecca Taichman ...


Tiffany Center: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart...


Following a hit run at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart is embarking on an international tour to share its ...

La Ruta
11/2 - 12/1/2019


Isaac Gomez; dir: Sandra Marquez. World Premiere...

1984
9/7 - 10/6/2019


George Orwell, a new play by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan Artists Repertory Theatre...

The Revolutionists
The Revolutionists
4/28 - 5/26/2019


Who runs the world? GIRLS! In 1793, during France’s Reign of Terror — a playwright, an assassin, a former queen, and a Caribbean spy walk ...

Wolf Play
3/10 - 4/7/2019


In a world where people struggle to have children, one American couple decides to 'un-adopt' their young Korean son because they have a newborn at ...

A Doll's House Part 2
1/27 - 2/24/2019


Fresh from its Tony-winning Broadway run, the comic sequel to Ibsen’s famed drama. Fifteen years after Nora Helmer rejected her domestic life, she returns to ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
1/27 - 2/24/2019


Doll's House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2017, before transferring ...

Teenage Dick
Teenage Dick
1/6 - 2/3/2019


High school is hard enough, but when you have a power hungry 17-year-old threatening to overthrow anyone in his way to becoming junior class President, ...

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play


The beloved holiday staple comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast with the story of George Bailey. George grew up in picturesque Bedford ...

Everybody
Everybody
11/25 - 12/30/2018


Death tells Everybody that their time is up. But Everybody doesn’t want to greet Death alone, so Everybody seeks the company of their friends Stuff, ...

Small Mouth Sounds
10/7 - 11/4/2018


In the overwhelming quiet of the woods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound ...

Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
9/2 - 9/30/2018


It's 2008, and one of the last auto plants in Detroit is dying on the vine. The factory workers that remain are living paycheck-to-paycheck but ...

I and You
I and You
5/20 - 6/17/2018


Two teens – a sick and snarky girl who hates poetry, and a sweet and sporty boy who just wants to get his class work ...

The Thanksgiving Play
The Thanksgiving Play
4/1 - 4/29/2018


A group of mismatched teachers and actors have been charged by the school district to devise an ethnically sensitive play to somehow celebrate both Thanksgiving ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
4/12 - 4/15/2018


No rehearsals. No director. No set. Every night a new actor opens an envelope and encounters the script for the first time. Will you participate? ...

Between Riverside and Crazy


Meet Walter “Pops” Washington, retired after 30 years from the NYPD after being shot by a white, rookie cop. Holding court from his recently deceased ...

The Holler Sessions
The Holler Sessions
3/8 - 3/11/2018


An explosive Kansas City DJ broadcasts his articulate, profane and impassioned testimony to American jazz in an 80-minute music-filled interactive experience. "A euphoric and heartrending ...

Magellanica
Magellanica
1/25 - 2/18/2018


WORLD PREMIERE! In 1985, scientists and engineers from around the world converge at the South Pole Research Station to figure out, among other things, if ...

The Humans
The Humans
11/19 - 12/17/2017


It’s the small family dinner that made big waves on Broadway. Enclosed in a basement apartment, a middle-class family gathers to christen Brigid and Richard’s ...

Caught
Caught
10/1 - 10/29/2017


Chinese activist artists have devised a four-part theatrical installation to jar audiences out of their complacent acceptance of the daily onslaught of ‘alternative facts.’ With ...

An Octoroon
An Octoroon
9/3 - 10/1/2017


An Octoroon is a raucously irreverent Gone with the Wind meets Looney Tunes mash-up that The New York Times calls “…this decade’s most eloquent theatrical ...

They, Themself and Schmerm (Frontier Series)


Part standup comedy special, part teen zine confessional, They, Themself and Schmerm is Becca’s disturbingly hilarious personal tale of identity, abuse, sexuality and gender. You’ll ...

The Importance of Being Earnest


An all-female, all-star Portland cast leads a gender-bending production of Oscar Wilde’s magnificent 19th Century comedy of manners and social status. Lovely Gwendolyn and adorable ...

The Talented Ones
The Talented Ones
4/25 - 5/21/2017


The American Dream teeters on the edge of the abyss as immigrants Cindy and Omar face their thwarted dreams and unraveling marriage while Omar’s buddy ...

Frontier Series - Rodney King


In this riveting performance, Smith unravels the myth of “the first reality TV star.” Rodney King tells the story of a flawed, good-hearted everyman - ...

Feathers & Teeth
3/7 - 4/2/2017


Charise Castro Smith; dir: Damaso Rodriguez. Morrison Theatre:...

Feathers and Teeth
Feathers and Teeth
3/7 - 4/2/2017


The fairytale concoction of teen angst and devastating loss makes for a grisly good time in this crackling new “thrilledy” — a stew of dark ...

Frontier Series - Winners and Losers


Is Joe Biden a loser? Is Kanye West a winner? What about microwave ovens, Goldman Sachs or Mexico? Old friends Marcus Youssef and James Long ...

Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
2/7 - 3/5/2017


In this tender and inquisitive new drama, a family grapples with the difference between a life lived and a life remembered as 85-year-old Marjorie struggles ...

A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration


Set during a time when the country is divided by conflicting ideologies and convictions following a contentious presidential election, Vogel’s sweeping, music-rich story plays out ...


It's 1864, and Washington, D.C. is settling down to the coldest Christmas Eve in years. In the White House, President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their ...

Frontier Series - Future Show


“As soon as I finish speaking you will clap. Even those of you who were a bit bored will clap because it’s a comfortable way ...

American Hero
American Hero
10/4 - 10/30/2016


When the American Dream is dashed, try making a sandwich! A trio of disparate and desperate ‘sandwich artists’ find themselves abandoned by their fast-food franchise ...

Trevor
Trevor
9/6 - 10/9/2016


The star of this hilarious and heart-wrenching new comedy is Trevor, a 200-pound chimp intent on reviving his showbiz career. He worked with Morgan Fairchild, ...

The Skin of Our Teeth
5/17 - 6/12/2016


Completed by the author less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, The Skin of our Teeth (1942) ...

Grand Concourse
5/3 - 5/29/2016


Heidi Schreck; dir: Yasen Peyankov....


Jackie Sibblies Drury; dir: Kevin Jones....

Mothers & Sons
2/9 - 3/6/2016


Terrence McNally; dir: Jane Unger....

The Miracle Worker
12/8 - 1/3/2016


Immortalized on screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this Tony Award-winning play is the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, Helen Keller, who ...

Broomstick
10/27 - 11/22/2015


New Jersey Repertory Company: John Biguenet; dir: Jennifer Tardibuono....

Cuba Libre
10/3 - 11/8/2015


Carlos Lacamara; lyrics: Carlos Lacamara; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....

The Understudy
9/8 - 10/4/2015


Theresa Rebeck; dir: Michael Mendelson....

The Liar
5/26 - 6/21/2015


adapt: David Ives from Pierre Corneille; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....

4000 Miles
4/28 - 5/24/2015


Amy Herzog; dir: Alana Byington....

The Price
3/31 - 4/26/2015


Arthur Miller; dir: Adriana Baer....

The Invisible Hand
3/10 - 4/5/2015


Ayad Akhtar; dir: Allen Nause....

Tribes
2/3 - 3/1/2015


Nina Raine; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....

The Quality of Life
4/8 - 5/11/2014


Jane Anderson; dir: Allen Nause....

The MotherFer with the Hat
2/25 - 3/30/2014


Struggles with addiction, friendship, love, and the challenges of adulthood are at the center of the story. Jackie, a petty drug dealer, is just out ...

The Monster-Builder
1/28 - 3/2/2014


Alder Stage: Amy Freed; dir: Art Manke....

The Night Before Christmas
11/26 - 12/29/2013


Morrison Stage: Anthony Neilson; dir: Louanne Moldovan....

The Reason for the Season
11/26 - 12/29/2013


Morrison Stage: Matt Pelfrey; dir: Rusty Tennant....

Foxfinder
10/29 - 12/1/2013


Alder Stage: Dawn King; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....

Mistakes Were Made
9/17 - 10/20/2013


In MISTAKES WERE MADE, B-list Off-Broadway producer Felix Artifex gets in way over his fast-talking head when he takes on Mistakes Were Made, the first ...

The Big Meal
9/3 - 10/6/2013


Five generations share the moments, both epic and intimate, that make a life. From the excitement and awkwardness of a first date to the grief ...

ITHAKA
5/28 - 6/30/2013


Morrison Stage: - Andrea Stolowitz; dir: Gemma Whelan....

Ten Chimneys
4/23 - 5/26/2013


Alder Stage: - Jeffrey Hatcher; dir: Damaso Rodriguez....

The Gin Game
3/26 - 4/28/2013


The new year finds ART of WNY presenting the classic story, The Gin Game, written by D.L. Coburn. Directed by Michael Lodick, two retirees (Gary ...

The Invisible Hand
3/26 - 4/28/2013


Morrison Stage: - Ayad Akhtar....

Red Herring
2/12 - 3/17/2013


“What J. Edgar doesn’t know won’t hurt him.” “Hoover knows everything. He’s like Santa.” A madcap, irreverent farce of spy versus counter-spy, set in the ...

The Lost Boy
1/8 - 2/10/2013


Morrison Stage: - Susan Mach; dir: Allen Nause....

Race
4/24 - 5/27/2012

Race
Race
4/27 - 5/27/2012


When it comes to race is justice blind? In this complex, complicated world acknowledging prejudice is an ugly venture into discomfort. In Race, two lawyers ...

NEXT TO NORMAL
3/6 - 4/15/2012


The most talked about new show on Broadway is strongNext to Normal/strong - the acclaimed, groundbreaking musical "that pushes Broadway in new directions" (emRolling Stone/em). ...

Sherlock Holmes & Case of the Christmas Carol


Will Sherlock Holmes crack his own case? Literature’s favorite quirky inquisitor is infused with the spirit of a crotchety Ebenezer Scrooge in an unusual holiday ...

No Man's Land
No Man's Land
10/4 - 11/6/2011


Is what you remember ever what really happened? With this enigmatic tumble through time, two men circle each other in the limbo of logic, recovering ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
9/6 - 10/9/2011


What’s so funny about parents acting like children? This 2009 Tony winner for Best Play, tells the story of two sets of parents who meet ...

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