Theater: Performance Arts Events in Portland, Oregon

Whether it’s with memorable characters or unforgettable plotlines, there’s always a story to tell on Portland’s stage. Artists Repertory Theatre, Broadway Across America and Portland Center Stage bring some of acting’s biggest names (like William Hurt) and the industry’s best titles (like “In the Heights”) to beautiful theaters that could almost steal the show themselves.

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Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists Rep, founded in 1982, presents contemporary and classic plays in two intimate venues. Season: August-May.

IMAGO Theatre

A small troupe, IMAGO Theatre combines the ingredients of movement, mime and visual illusion. Season: October-June.

Miracle Theatre

Miracle Theatre is the Northwest’s premier Hispanic arts and culture organization. Season: September-May.

Portland Center Stage

Portland’s premier professional theater company, Portland Center Stage presents classic and contemporary plays in the Gerding Theater at the Armory, a sustainably renovated historic building. Season: September-June. JAW, a developmental festival of new work, takes place in July.

Profile Theatre Project

Each year, Profile showcases a single playwright, providing the opportunity to enter a writer’s world for a full season — one of only two American theater companies with this focus. Season: October-May.

Sojourn Theatre

The multi-ethnic Sojourn Theatre ensemble is committed to adventurous theatricality and innovative community engagement strategies, creating unique, often site-specific new performance in Portland and around the nation.

More theater companies

BroadArts Theatre
Broadway Rose Theatre Company
Brody Theater
Clackamas Repertory
Classic Greek Theatre
CoHo Productions
defunkt theatre
Fever Theater
Hand 2 Mouth Theatre
Insight Out Theatre Collective
Integrity Productions
Lakewood Center for the Arts
Liminal
Live on Stage
Longview Stageworks
Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre Company
Northwest Childrens Theater
Northwest Classical Theatre Company
Oregon Children's Theatre
Portland Actors Conservatory
Portland Actors Ensemble
Portland Theatre Works
Quintessence Language & Imagination Theatre
Shaking the Tree
Tapestry Theatre
Tears of Joy
The Brooklyn Bay
Theatre Vertigo
Third Rail Rep