Things to Do in Portland This Week

The Tomorrow Theater is no stranger to Smell-O-Vision screenings, thanks to its neighbor Fumerie Parfumerie, but a screening of this 2025 film might be the pair’s first perfumed documentary. Memorie Olfattive examines the life of Giuseppe Imprezzabile, an Italian herbalist better known as Meo Fusciuni. Bottles are prized for the poetic arrangement of their top-tier, highly concentrated ingredients. Fusciuni will attend the screening, as well as a pre-movie meet-and-greet at Fumerie Parfumerie from 4 to 6pm a few blocks away.

Portugal. The Man teams up with the local orchestra and conductor Raúl Gómez-Rojas for two nights to celebrate both the 15th anniversary of the band’s In the Mountain in the Cloud, and its newest album, Shish, released last November.

This 2008 sci-fi dystopian rock opera, starring everyone from Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman to Skinny Puppy’s Nivek Ogre and Spy Kids’ Alexa Vega, gets the 4K restoration treatment ahead of its 20th anniversary. It’s a true cult classic in the vein of Rocky Horror Picture Show; shadow-cast crew the Denton Delinquents act out the film live.

100 Lives Rep’s season opener, this Lauren Gunderson play follows a coder who develops an artificial intelligence simulation of her recently deceased sister. Featuring an all-woman cast, Anthropology explores emerging technology pulling out onto the road of grief and wonders if those driving AI really looked both ways before crossing.

Local music legend LaRhonda Steele is the voice of Audrey II in Portland Center Stage’s adaptation of the holiday season–adjacent classic about a plant that enchants and aspires to choke the world with songs and capitalism. Just like Christmas! This one’s a family affair, as Steele’s daughter Lo Steele, also a recording artist, appears as Ronnette, part of what’s essentially the play’s Greek Chorus.

This homegrown comedy hero made waves earlier this year for his too-brief stint on The Traitors, but Ron Funches has been making us laugh for over a decade as a screen and voice actor. The early show is already sold out, so act fast to welcome him home.

New Zealand indie pop singer-songwriter Kimbra—best known for “Somebody That I Used to Know,” her 2011 duet with Belgian-Australian musician Gotye—returns to Portland for the 15th anniversary of her superb 2011 album, Vows.

S. E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel is still required reading in many a school curriculum, while Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film adaption introduced the world to a new Hollywood generation. So it’s kind of a surprise that it took so many decades to make its way to the Broadway musical treatment. But now the song-and-dance version of Hinton’s gritty tale of child neglect and gang violence is being fast-tracked: First performed in 2023, The Outsiders won the Tony for Best Musical the following year launched a highly successful touring production. The Greasers vs. Socs saga hits Portland for a week, complete with warnings of “flashing lights, periods of darkness, loud noises, theatrical haze, and herbal cigarettes.”

The textile artist blends quilting, small sculpture, and personal folklore in her new exhibition, Home Sweet Home.

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.