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The Brothers Size
2025-05-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-03 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-03 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-07 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-08 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-09 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 more dates | 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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Grease
2025-05-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-03 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-03 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-09 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-10 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Broadway Rose New Stage, 12850 SW Grant Avenue, Tigard, OR, 97223, United States
Get ready to rock n’ roll with Rydell High’s senior class! Grease picks up the story of head “greaser” Danny and girl-next-door Sandy where their summer lovin’ left off: the start of a new school year. Amongst “Burger Palace Boys,” “Pink Ladies,” fast cars, and teen angst, this musical evokes the looks and sounds of the 1950s. Grease has earned its place among the world’s most popular musicals, and is filled with favorite songs and dance numbers such as “Greased Lightnin’,” “We Go Together,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” and “You’re the One That I Want.”

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
2025-05-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-03 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-07 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-08 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-05-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-09 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-05-10 14:00 - 16:30 | 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.

Prom Night at the Symphony
2025-05-03 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Dress to impress for the prom of your dreams! With full-energy rock tributes including hits like “Stairway to Heaven,” “Footloose,” “Dancing Queen,” and more performed by your Oregon Symphony, this prom night is certainly going to be a night to remember. Relive the glory days or make new memories with an evening of timeless Prom tunes, silly photo opportunities, and the crowning of a King & Queen!
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The Search for Beauty
2025-05-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Get ready to dive into the intense emotions of Robert Schumann’s Manfred Overture. Based on a poem by Lord Byron, you’ll feel the great suffering from supernatural forces that he detailed in his dramatic 1817 work.
Then, experience the resilience in Ruth Gipps’s Second Symphony, written during WWII. Reflecting its time, this symphony is like a musical journey from struggle to triumph that leaves you feeling hopeful and strong.
Valerie Coleman’s Tracing Visions is powerful and thought-provoking, addressing the ugliness of hatred of apathy and violence and means to reinforce the profound truth that we are all one people and should strive to create a safe and compassionate world.
Finally, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 feels like a burst of sunshine with its cheerful melodies, like the light at the end of the tunnel after so much grief.
It is a program to inspire—to move and encourage us all to continue in our search for beauty and hope.

Unit Souzou: Constant State of Otherness
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
Constant State of Otherness is a multi-layered performance exploring the impacts of the universal experiences of othering and alienation. Through taiko, Japanese folk dance, song, and personal story, six performers guide the audience through a four-part journey inspired by experiences of isolation and displacement that come from not having an easy sense of home.
Rooted in ancestral wisdom and survival, Constant State of Otherness resists simplistic translations of language, cultural ways, and the complicated emotions that otherness evokes. By allowing their stories to fractally unfold through the resonance of drum, voice, and movement, Unit Souzou offers an invitation to locate our shared longing to belong.

Impressions of the Sea
2025-05-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Inspired by a lifelong passion for the sea, Debussy’s La Mer shimmers with orchestral colors in musical portraits of tranquil waves, brewing storms, and the sun’s celestial journey across a radiant sky. And soloist Paul Huang brings his “stylish and polished playing” (Strad) to Korngold’s Violin Concerto, which marries European romanticism with the gilded glamour of Hollywood film scores.
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