The Brothers Size
2025-05-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-15 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | U.S. Bank Main Stage, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
From Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight, Choir Boy) comes a story of freedom and family. Steadfast and responsible, Ogun Size fights to connect with Oshoosi, his aimless younger brother, who has recently been released from prison. Weaving together the mundane and the mystic, this play invites us into the Louisiana Bayou, showing us a world of poetry, African mythology, and music. A fresh and contemporary tale of belonging, brotherhood and the ties that bind.
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Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
2025-05-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-13 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-18 19:30 - 22:00 and 2 more dates | Ellyn Bye Studio, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Chris Grace is Scarlett Johansson. Or maybe Scarlett Johansson is Chris Grace. Either way, only one of them played a Japanese cyborg in Ghost in the Shell. In a tour-de-force one-person farce that The Guardian describes as “mind and character bending,” Asian American actor and comedian Chris Grace explores the bounds of an artist’s identity. With the help of an ever-growing pile of wigs, Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson celebrates two of Hollywood’s most beloved Asian actors.
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
2025-05-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-18 19:30 - 22:00 | Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St, Portland, OR, 97211, United States
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, set in a 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house, follows Herald Loomis’ search for identity and belonging. This August Wilson masterpiece captures the essence of the African American post- slavery experience, weaving together themes of heritage, freedom, and the deep yearning for a place to call home.
As Loomis searches for his lost family, his journey mirrors the broader African American pursuit of identity and cultural grounding following the abolition of slavery. This narrative is a profound reflection on resilience, community bonds, and the indomitable spirit of freedom.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a powerful exploration of the significance of community in guiding individual journeys, and the unbreakable desire to find where one truly belongs. It is a story of rebirth & a celebration of African American resilience and a reminder of the power of discovering where you belong.

Precipice: re-membering, forgetting and claiming home
2025-05-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:30 | CoHo Theatre, 2257 NW Raleigh St, Portland, OR, 97210, United States
Precipice is a magical-realist, fluid poem that tenderly holds place, house/home and mementos as doorways to connection, while deeply questioning materialistic notions of ownership. This one-woman show presses against the boundaries of media reports, geological truths, legacy, DNA reports, and the value of listening to the land as a third-generation Black Portlander and Oregonian. Who owns your idea of belonging? What is the legacy of the place you call home? As far as you can tell, is everyone free?
Conceived and performed by Damaris Webb; written by Chris Gonzalez.
