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Final Week To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards; Twilight Theater Company Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 23, 2024

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards; SWEENEY TODD at Twilight Theater Company Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Portland Playhouse


by Krista Garver - December 10, 2024

What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Portland Playhouse?...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Portland Awards


by BWW Awards - December 09, 2024

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

First Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Portland Awards


by BWW Awards - December 02, 2024

Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Portland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Review: PASSING STRANGE at Portland Playhouse


by Krista Garver - May 03, 2024

Portland Playhouse’s production of this wild, exuberant roller coaster ride of a musical makes for a fabulous night at the theatre....

2024 Fertile Ground Festival Starts Today!


by Krista Garver - April 12, 2024

Get ready for 11 days of theatrical discovery!...

Portland Playhouse Reveals Lineup For 2024-25 Season


by Stephi Wild - April 11, 2024

Portland Playhouse has unveiled their highly anticipated 17th Season with a lineup of four productions. Each offers spectacular stories, unforgettable performances, and heart-stopping moments featuring world-class talent....

Launch of The Hatchery to Offer Specialized Development Support for Music, Movement-Driven Theatermakers 


by A.A. Cristi - January 24, 2024

Many Hats Collab launches The Hatchery, offering specialized development support for music and movement-driven theatermakers. NEA funding supports this exciting new initiative....

Interview: Jessica Wallenfels, Artistic Director of Many Hats Collaboration, on Wrapping Up the 5 in 5 Initiative, Looking to the Future


by Krista Garver - January 10, 2024

At the end of 2023, Many Hats Collaboration, which creates theatre performances that reimagine music and movement onstage, wrapped up its 5 in 5 Initiative....

Past Shows

Matilda the Musical
Matilda the Musical
6/7 - 6/30/2024


Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical June 7th - June 30th, 2024 Book by Dennis Kelly Music & Lyrics by Tim Minchin Music Directed by Eric ...


A joyous girl power romp! This is the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to ...

CATHARSIS
12/19 - 1/17/2021


Catharsis is a short musical film that utilizes three main characters to explore the many social constructs around us. Each character represents and or disrupts ...

THE MYTHOLOGY OF BLAME
12/18 - 1/16/2021


The legacy-through time, across continents-of humankind's rejection of accountability. From Pandora to the Poor, who do we blame, and what would happen if we hold ...

545
12/12 - 1/10/2021


545 is inspired by the current events of the 545 migrant children who were separated from their families by the Trump administration and have yet ...

PRIVATE CHAT
12/11 - 1/9/2021


In an attempt to up her game, a young woman purchases some one-on-one time with a webcam model. When she decides to reveal her true ...

Pipeline
2/19 - 3/15/2020


Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When ...

Women of Will
10/24 - 11/10/2019


Tina Packer; dir: Eric Tucker....

The Wolves
9/25 - 10/20/2019


Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. An all girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big ...

Other Inland Empires
Other Inland Empires
6/26 - 6/30/2019


When writer/director Julie Hammond learned that Gidget, the quintessential California girl and 1950's spark of a global surf boom, was really the Jewish daughter of ...

Crowns
3/13 - 4/7/2019


A young woman who moves down South to live with her aunt is given a lesson in “hat-titude” in this toe-tapping musical. From fur hats ...

No Candy
1/16 - 2/10/2019


Portland Playhouse: Emma Stanton; dir: Tea Alagic....

Wakey, Wakey
9/26 - 10/21/2018


Will Eno; dir: Gretchen Corbett....

Scarlet
2/28 - 3/25/2018


Michelle Horgen; dir: Brian Weaver. The Church:...

Weaving Women Together
1/17 - 1/28/2018


Nikki Weaver; dir: Gretchen Corbett. The Church:...

The Language Archive
5/17 - 6/11/2017


Julia Cho; dir: Adriana Baer....

Pen/Man/Ship
2/8 - 3/5/2017


Christina Anderson; dir: Lucie Tiberghien....

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/30 - 12/30/2016


Todd Kreisler, August Wilson; dir: Kevin Jones....


Todd Kreisler, August Wilson; dir: Kevin Jones....

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
5/11 - 6/12/2016


Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...

YOU FOR ME FOR YOU
2/3 - 2/28/2016


WORLD PREMIERE by Mia Chung Directed by Yury Urnov In Association with Ma-Yi Theater Company Two North Korean sisters—facing starvation at the hands of a ...


What will endure when the cataclysm arrives – when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we’re faced with the task of rebuilding? Anne Washburn’s imaginative ...

After the Revolution
4/30 - 6/1/2014


Amy Herzog; dir: Tamara Fisch....

Light in The Piazza
2/26 - 3/30/2014


Set in Florence and Rome in 1953, a young American tourist traveling with her mother meets and falls for a young Italian. The mother opposes ...

Jitney
1/22 - 2/9/2014


Winningstad Theatre: August Wilson; dir: G. Val Thomas....

A Christmas Carol
12/15 - 12/29/2013


A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...

The Other Place
11/20 - 12/8/2013


Portland Playhouse: Sharr White; dir: Brian Weaver....

Detroit
10/2 - 11/3/2013


Portland Playhouse: Lisa D'Amour; dir: Brian Weaver....

The Left Hand of Darkness
5/2 - 6/2/2013


- adapt: John Schmor; dir: Jonathan Walters....

Mother Theresa Is Dead
3/14 - 4/7/2013


- Helen Edmundson; dir: Isaac Lamb....

The Huntsman
1/17 - 2/17/2013


- Quincy Long; dir: Kathleen Dimmick....

The Brother/Sister Plays
3/29 - 5/13/2012

Famished
1/19 - 2/12/2012

Angels in America
12/8 - 12/31/2011

Gem of the Ocean
10/6 - 10/30/2011

Videos


The Maltese Falcon in Portland The Maltese Falcon
Lakewood Theatre Company (1/3 - 2/9)

NEW PLAY Tracker
PHOTOS
Hairspray in Portland Hairspray
Stumptown Stages (1/17 - 2/9) Tracker
Tootsie in Portland Tootsie
Stumptown Stages (3/21 - 4/13)

NEW MUSICAL Tracker
Hamilton (Philip Company) in Portland Hamilton (Philip Company)
Keller Auditorium (3/4 - 3/23)
& Juliet in Portland & Juliet
Keller Auditorium (8/5 - 8/10)
Daddy Long Legs in Portland Daddy Long Legs
Struts & Frets Theatre Company (1/17 - 1/18)
MJ in Portland MJ
Hult Center (7/22 - 7/27)
Life of Pi in Portland Life of Pi
Keller Auditorium (4/8 - 4/13)
ZooZoo in Portland ZooZoo
Imago Theatre (12/13 - 1/1)
Fiction in Portland Fiction
Mask & Mirror Community Theatre (1/17 - 2/8)
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