Artslandia

Anything Goes
2025-08-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-08-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-08-16 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-08-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-08-17 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Rd, Tigard, OR, 97224, United States
Climb aboard for a tap-filled classic this summer! With music and lyrics by Cole Porter, this voyage of the S.S. American between New York and England is filled with a madcap group of passengers, witty repartee, exceptional songs, and thrilling tap dancing. The 2022 revision includes familiar classics from the Great American Songbook such as “Anything Goes,” “You’re the Top,” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.” This musical will have you rooting for true love to win out in the end. It’s delightful, delicious, and de-lovely.

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.”

Jinkx Monsoon
2025-09-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Experience the Oregon Symphony debut of award-winning actress, vocalist, and Portland native Jinkx Monsoon, who broke box office records in Broadway’s Chicago and made history as the first and only drag artist to win RuPaul’s Drag Race twice. Monsoon is an extraordinary entertainer with an irresistible presence and wicked-but-welcoming sense of humor as shown throughout her decade-long career across theatre, film and television. Join her for an evening of original songs and inspired covers that range from cabaret, blues, show tunes, and torch songs to high-energy rock and pop.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in Concert
2025-09-12 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Come along for a swashbuckling adventure with Captain Jack Sparrow, his motley crew, and the Oregon Symphony. Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley, the action-packed movie sets mystery, intrigue, swords, and treasure to a live performance of Klaus Badelt’s thrilling musical score based on themes of Hans Zimmer.

Joshua Bell Plays Saint-Saëns
2025-09-16 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Violin superstar Joshua Bell joins the Oregon Symphony for the grandest of season openings! One of the most celebrated, most award-crowned artists of our day, he shines in Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto, lifting you into the stratosphere of the instrument’s register. Stravinsky’s sumptuous Suite from The Firebird is filled with the stuff of fairytales: a prince, captive princesses, the Firebird’s magic feather, and an evil ogre. Vibrant colors and rich harmonies glitter and pulse, ending with the gossamer Lullaby and a shimmering climax.

Triangle
2025-09-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-21 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-09-25 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-26 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-27 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-09-27 19:30 - 22:00 and 2 more dates | Broadway Rose New Stage, 12850 SW Grant Avenue, Tigard, OR, 97223, United States
Triangle, a new love story, is set against the backdrop of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York and its modern-day inhabitants. The musical follows two romances: a Jewish immigrant seamstress and her Italian foreman, and a graduate student and his relationship with a handsome free-spirited stranger. The show parallels their stories as they are set in the same location, a century apart. Filled with fresh melodies and a poignant narrative, the couples discover what it means to risk everything for love.

Andrew Bird
2025-09-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
With a distinctive sound that resists categorization, Grammy-nominated violinist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Bird, makes his debut with the Oregon Symphony. Balancing swelling sounds with jazz, folk, and pop melodies in an unforgettable display of his unique virtuosity, this is a season-opening concert you won’t want to miss.

Tchaikovsky & Strauss
2025-09-27 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-28 14:00 - 16:30 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
It’s a blockbuster start to our classical season! The soul-stirring sonorities and rapturous melodies of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto have guaranteed it a permanent place in the hearts of audiences everywhere, and you won’t want to miss hearing it performed by young piano prodigy Alexander Malofeev. You’ve heard the fanfare of Strauss’ iconic Zarathustra in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but wait until you hear it played live by the Oregon Symphony—as a huge orchestra, burnished brasses, and the powerful organ reveal the grandeur and mysteries of the universe.

Symphony-in-60: Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2
2025-10-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Short on time, but need a classical music fix? The Oregon Symphony has the perfect answer for the end of your work week: a brand-new musical experience called “Symphony in 60.” The concert is shorter, and there’s no intermission, but there’s no shortage of dazzling music. Our first entry is Rachmaninoff’s ultra-Romantic Symphony No. 2 that enfolds you with sweeping melodies, lush orchestrations, and inspired lyrical passages. The composer himself said: “Music is born only of the heart and it appeals to the heart. It is love.” You’ll need no further proof than this gorgeous work.
