Playwright Kate Hamill is known for screwball stage adaptations of classics, including Sense & Sensibility and Vanity Fair. In this madcap riff on Jane Austen's most famous novel, the playwright zeroes in on the question of how anyone can know if they've met "the one." Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage, helms the production.

Blue Sky Gallery’s main exhibitions consider what photography can be. Bootsy Holler’s Contaminated reexamines the Hanford Nuclear Site and the communities of people poisoned by radioactive fallout, including generations of Holler’s family. Lucy Bohnsack’s This Work They Call Love celebrates the resilience of mothers who have to make do by printing her images onto household materials like bandages, plastic bags, and scrap material. 

North Williams Avenue cart pod Garden Party hosts one of the City of Portland's neighborhood tree steward for "a night filled with laughs, fun facts, and a shared love for trees." Questions might touch on Portland history and nature as well as trees in movies or on album covers.

Chicago-based comedian Gwen Rose headlines Lady Killers Comedy, a monthly show of all-female stand-up comedians at Revolution Hall's Show Bar.

When Vin Shambry was a kid, his mom fled domestic violence with him and his younger sister. For a while, they slept under a tree at Irving Park. Then Shambry attended Outdoor School, the long-standing environmental education program that puts Portland sixth graders in the woods for a week. That experience is dramatized in Outdoor School, the debut feature film from writer-director Ime N. Etuk. A portion of the ticket sales benefits nonprofits Bradley Angle, which serves those affected by domestic violence, and p:ear, which provides mentorship to homeless youth.

Milagro Theater commemorates El Día de Muertos with this family-friendly walkthrough of different Day of the Dead symbols and customs.

The latest production by local playwright Mikki Gillette takes its audiences back to a trans women’s support group set in the bygone days of 2011. Yes, that was 15 years ago, so either prepare for a massive throwback or (if you are too young to remember 2011) a timely, heart-filled history lesson. 

Kicking off its new season celebrating "Shared Senses," local Irish theater company Corrib blends El Día de Muertos with the spirit of the ancient Gaelic-Celt festival of Samhain in An Scéal to honor the dearly departed. (Saturday's show is already sold out.)

Oregon Ballet Theatre brings a version of the classic ballet choreographed by former OBT artistic director Christopher Stowell, complete with its Tchaikovsky score and evil sorcerer.

The Saw horror movie franchise got ridiculous with a quickness, and Saw: The Musical embraces the farce of the Jigsaw Killer’s ludicrously elaborate, selectively moralistic murders. While there are 10 movies to riff on, this unauthorized parody mostly focuses on the iconic bathroom trap from the first movie.

This local jam band sounds like it pulls from the past and future of indie rock for the warmest, sunniest tones possible. Fellow Portland rockers Babytooth join the bill for an all-ages afternoon show.

Relive the grayscale tension between Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in s 2019 Robert Eggers’ A24 film that sees two nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers face isolation, alcoholism and a few long dark nights of the soul. 

The pop provocateur tours her new album, Vie, bringing fellow rap sensation Latto with her to amp up the fun. 

The long-running queer quarterly cabaret returns for its Halloween edition. Among the spooky surprises in store is a rare reunion between local drag superstar Isaiah Esquire with BOYeurism’s original cofounder, Esequiel Esquire, who decamped to Texas more than a decade ago. 

The local drag artist-turned-playwright discusses his debut book, Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances, with queer filmmaker (and Portland Monthly contributor) Thom Hilton.

Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria provided nearly 150 works for this special exhibition at PAM, which features pieces by Indigenous artists from across Australia, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present. The work spans genres, too—ochre bark paintings, sound installations, photography, weavings, and more.