Performing Arts

SUMMER GUIDE

The Last Big Thing From JAW Playwrights’ Festival

Here's what you missed out on at Portland Center Stage last year. Don't let it happen again.

06/02/2013 By Aaron Scott

THEATER

PCS’s ‘Somewhere in Time’ Sets Its Eyes on Broadway

With a dream team cast and crew, Portland Center Stage opens its first world premiere with a real shot for the bright lights of Broadway. Thru June 30

05/30/2013 By Aaron Scott

THEATER

Review: Coho's 'Crooked'

A wonder of a play as magically packed with big ideas about reason and faith as Mary Poppins's carpetbag. Thru June 8

05/27/2013 Photography by Jonathan Frochtzwajg

THEATER

Review: Vertigo’s ‘Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls’

Theatre Vertigo bids adieu to Theater! Theatre! with a strongly performed, if incongruous, snowglobe of a show. Thru June 8

05/19/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

THEATER

Q&A: Mike Daisey on New Show, 'JOURNALISM'

After getting caught in a journalistic scandal over his show about Apple, the monologist writes the industry a love letter in a world premiere on May 21.

05/16/2013 By Aaron Scott

THEATER

Review: Hand2Mouth and Portland Playhouse Tackle ‘Left Hand of Darkness’

What do you get when you cross two ambitious theaters, a sci-fi masterpiece, 800 miles of ice, and genderless aliens? Find out at Portland Playhouse thru Jun 9.

05/15/2013 By Aaron Scott

THEATER

Review: Lauren Weedman’s ‘The People’s Republic of Portland’

The one-woman adventure through Portland Weird is full of energy and humor, but to what end? At Portland Center Stage thru June 16.

05/08/2013 By Aaron Scott

CULTUREPHILE

Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse Team Up to Tackle a Sci-Fi Classic

Two of Portland's brightest theater companies combine forces to stage Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.

05/01/2013 By Ben Waterhouse

INTERVIEW

Q&A: Playwright Andrea Stolowitz

The Portland playwright’s military-focused play Ithaka premieres at Artists Rep this month.

05/01/2013 By John Chandler

THEATER

Review: Artists Rep’s ‘Ten Chimneys’

A backstage romp through everything that makes theater joyous sets an energetic note for the company’s incoming artistic director. Thru May 26

04/29/2013 By Aaron Scott

TICKET GIVEAWAY + INTERVIEW

Q&A and Ticket Contest for PCS’s ‘The People's Republic of Portland’

We talk with comedian Lauren Weedman in advance of her one-woman pillory of Portland, running Apr 23–June 16 at Portland Center Stage.

04/24/2013 By Aaron Scott

DANCE

Video: Portland's Jefferson Dancers Tour China

22 teenage dancers from the NoPo program receive a rock star welcome as the first Portland company to tour China. See their journey, and catch them locally at the Newmark May 1–4.

04/20/2013 By Aaron Scott Photography by Julie Keefe

TICKET GIVEAWAY

Win Tickets to Artists Rep’s ‘Ten Chimneys’

We talk with ART’s new artistic director, Damaso Rodriguez, about his directing debut—and give you tickets to see it (if you’re lucky). Apr 23–May 25

04/18/2013 By Aaron Scott

THEATER

Review: PCS’s ‘Clybourne Park’

Portland Center Stage’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play gleefully dives into the taboo topic of race with ferocious wit and suburb acting. Thru May 5

04/15/2013 By Aaron Scott