The Importance of Being Earnest
2025-06-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-21 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-25 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-26 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-26 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 4 more dates | U.S. Bank Main Stage, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
A world-premiere adaptation!
What’s in a name? For some people—everything. A new, exciting spin on an old classic, this adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s satire sparkles with wit and whimsy. To become the gentlemen they believe they’re meant to be, Jack and Algernon must live double lives. Country mice and city mice collide in this comedy that will woo you from the very start!
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Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
2025-06-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-21 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-22 14:00 - 16:30 | 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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Mother Russia
2025-06-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-22 14:00 - 16:30 | Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison Street, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Evgeny and Dmitri are just two average guys who dream of cushy government jobs—but when the fall of the Soviet Union puts hiring on hold, they find work surveilling a former pop star instead. As they bumble their way through the assignment, both spying and life under capitalism prove harder than they thought. This prescient and thought-provoking world-premiere comedy by Lauren Yee (The Great Leap, Cambodian Rock Band) reveals what happens when old systems and strongmen fall away, and we let the free market decide—but freedom doesn’t taste as good as we thought it would.
Profile Theatre is producing Mother Russia in association with Desert Island Studios, founded and run by Ashley Song and Joe Bowden, who will be creating pre-recorded and live-stream video featured within the production.

Playwright Festival 2025
2025-06-27, 2025-06-28, 2025-06-29
What was it like being the first to hear early drafts of Angels in America? Or Fences? Or The Glass Menagerie? Or Twelfth Night? At Playwright Festival, you’ll know.
Last year’s Playwright Festival gave audiences the opportunity to meet with, and see early drafts of new work from Tony Award-nominated playwright Kristoffer Diaz and two-time Sundance Fellow christopher oscar peña. This year, you’ll be the first to welcome the visionary 2025-2027 Featured Playwrights and see early drafts of the plays commissioned for our 2025–2027 cycle.
Audiences are the cornerstone of our work, and your seat at the festival makes you an active participant in the creation of new plays from some of the most unique, powerful, prolific, and in-demand voices of the modern stage.
You’ll enjoy two workshopped readings, and close the weekend off with a catered Artist Salon with the playwrights. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with the Featured Playwrights, and to discuss their work, their process, the state of their art, and the state of the world. While those playwrights have yet to be announced, Profile Theatre has already identified and commissioned those writers. At Playwright Festival, our audiences and artists build the future of live theatre together.
Times & Location to be announced!

Pitch Black Showcase
2025-08-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Portland Center Stage at the Armory, 128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, 97209, United States
Pitch Black Showcase returns to Portland for a one-night celebration of Black ideas and brilliance. Experience powerful live pitches from Black founders, makers, and creatives sharing the ideas they’re building, dreaming of, and fighting for. This isn’t a competition. It’s a stage for possibility.
The evening will also feature live music by local Black artists, Local Black maker tables, themed drinks, and a chance to meet the founders and connect with the community.
About Pitch Black
Pitch Black Showcase is the signature event of Pitch Black, a platform for elevating Black ideas across industries and across the country. Since 2015, we’ve spotlighted Black founders and creators with bold visions—from outdoor adventure startups to sneaker-themed coffee shops to sustainability-focused development firms.
Pitch Black is where Black brilliance takes the stage and invites the world to listen.

Some Like it Hot
2025-09-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-04 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-05 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-06 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Winner of 4 Tony Awards®, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album, SOME LIKE IT HOT is “A Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” – The New York Times. Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they catch a cross-country train for the life-chasing, life-changing trip of a lifetime. And what a trip it is! With its irresistible combination of heart and laughs, song and dance, SOME LIKE IT HOT won more theater awards than any show in its season, and was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk, The Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. No wonder Deadline calls it “a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.”

Dracula
2025-10-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
It Will Turn You
Deep in Transylvania, a monster lives in a castle, hungrily capturing women to take as his brides. When Dracula steals Svetlana, she fights back, certain her fiancé is coming to rescue her. But will he be too late?
Back by popular demand, Ben Stevenson’s lavish, haunting ballet combines drama and fantasy in a spectacle worthy of Broadway.
“Exquisitely beautiful and atmospheric.” – The New York Times
