Artslandia

Playwright Festival 2025
2025-06-29, 2025-06-28, 2025-06-27 | OR
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!

Complete Brandenburg Concertos Part II
2025-06-28 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
The evening concert dives deeper into Bach’s creative brilliance with his exuberant Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, joy-filled Concerto No. 5, and celebratory Concerto No. 4. Each piece showcases Bach’s mastery of intricate dialogue and vibrant energy between instruments, blending lively string sections, virtuosic solo passages, and a radiant spirit. Gabriella Smith’s Brandenburg Interstices adds a contemporary perspective that blends Baroque influences with imaginative innovation.

Waitress
2025-06-28 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-27 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Rd, Tigard, OR, 97224, United States
Grab a little slice of heaven with the Broadway-hit musical, Waitress. With music and lyrics by Tony® Award-nominee, Sara Bareilles, this pop musical tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself. Through the support of her fellow waitresses and an unexpected romance, Jenna begins to find the courage to take a long-abandoned dream off the shelf. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, motherhood, the family we choose, and the beauty of a well-baked pie. Recommended for ages 13+.

The Importance of Being Earnest
2025-06-28 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-28 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-27 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-26 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-26 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-25 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-22 14:00 - 16:30 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!
Preview the Magazine >>

Complete Brandenburg Concertos Part I
2025-06-28 16:00 - 18:30 | Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Bursting with grandeur and elegance, the festival begins with Bach’s electrifying Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, followed by the richly moving Concerto No. 6. Caroline Shaw’s Bach-inspired Concerto for Harpsichord & Strings offers a modern twist on the Baroque tradition, before Bach’s festive and dazzling Concerto No. 2 brings the concert to a vibrant conclusion.

Mother Russia
2025-06-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-19 19:30 - 22:00 | 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.

Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
2025-06-22 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-21 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-20 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.
Preview the Magazine >>

Lindsey Stirling
2025-06-18 19:30 - 22:00 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Experience the next evolution of multi-award-winning Lindsey Stirling as she brings her groundbreaking fusion of electronic violin and orchestral grandeur to the Symphony stage. With bold new music from her album Duality, Stirling continues to push boundaries, blending intricate instrumentals and her signature pop flair in this one-of-a-kind concert experience that’s as majestic as it is energetic.
Preview the magazine >>
