Artists Repertory Theatre

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Founded in 1982, Artists Repertory Theatre is the longest-running professional theatre company in Portland. ART became the 72nd member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) in 2016 and is an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN). Artists Rep is Portland’s premiere mid-size regional theatre company and is led by Artistic Director Dámaso Rodríguez and Managing Director J.S. Ar

tists Rep has become a significant presence in American regional theatre with a legacy of world, national, and regional premieres of provocative new work with the highest standards of stagecraft. The organization is committed to local artists and features a company of Resident Artists and professionals of varied theatre disciplines, who are a driving force behind Artists Rep’s creative output and identity.

The current PATHWAYS cohort has spent the past couple of months cooking up this collaborative article with — check it o...
06/20/2026

The current PATHWAYS cohort has spent the past couple of months cooking up this collaborative article with — check it out! ✍️

“We began with two central questions: What is the role of the arts critic and/or journalist in theater?, and Is arts journalism an art form? Of 15 applicants, five were selected by a committee of local artists, and in addition to one-on-one mentorship, we’ve spent the past ten months exploring these questions as a cohort.

I cannot speak highly enough about this group of individuals. A mix of recent college grads (and one soon-to-be-grad!), community organizers, artists you’ll recognize from projects all over town, and some you may not yet know, each brings a distinct point of view, desire for discourse, curiosity, and passion for theater to the table.

What you’ll read below is just a small excerpt of their work — a short reflection after their time in the cohort. To check out their full responses across ART’s 2025/26 season, as well as some quickfire Fertile Ground reviews, click on each cohort member’s name in their bylines.”

https://www.orartswatch.org/pathways-to-the-future-of-theater-and-theater-criticism-too/

Every artist or audience member who feels seen? It happens in partnership with people like you, who believe that theatre...
06/15/2026

Every artist or audience member who feels seen? It happens in partnership with people like you, who believe that theatre and laughter and connection are worth fighting for, even when the world makes that hard.

It's the same belief at the heart of our 2026/27 Season: Comedies for a World on Fire. Since May 1st, over 70 neighbors have donated to help tell these stories, and all the stories they make possible for artists and audiences.
Visit the link to join. https://purchase.artistsrep.org/Donations

We're celebrating LORT’s Special Tony Award! Did you know that more than 525 Broadway productions originated at LORT Th...
06/08/2026

We're celebrating LORT’s Special Tony Award! Did you know that more than 525 Broadway productions originated at LORT Theatres? Not to mention the many commissions, developmental work, and world premieres that laid the groundwork for future Broadway productions. Additionally, productions from LORT Theatres have been nominated for more than 1,500 and won more than 350 Tony Awards.

ART is proud to be a member of LORT. In 2018, ART had the privilege of commissioning and premiering The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse. The work went on to become one of the most produced regional productions in the 2019/20 season and later reached Broadway at the Hayes Theatre in 2023, marking the first time that a female Native American playwright had a play produced on Broadway.

It's here! Subscription ticket packages for Artists Repertory Theatre's 2026/27 Season are now on sale!Get them here. >>...
06/01/2026

It's here! Subscription ticket packages for Artists Repertory Theatre's 2026/27 Season are now on sale!
Get them here. >> https://artistsrep.org/26-27-sub/

Become a Season Subscriber and directly support this season’s productions and the artists who bring them to life. Anyone can become a subscriber and support intimate, provocative local theatre.

As a subscriber, you’ll receive one ticket to each production in our season and enjoy exclusive benefits, including priority access to performance dates and seating (now available to book online), free parking in our garage, free ticket exchanges (regularly $10 per exchange), and discounted additional tickets.

New this season: To help make theatre more accessible, we now offer a discounted subscription package for patrons ages 35 and under. (See details below.)

We hope you’ll join us again, or for the first time, in becoming a subscriber for our 44th Season: Comedies for a World On Fire.

Single tickets go on sale in August. Purchase your subscription by then for best seats!

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE.🔥 Round out your spring with EULOGY, OR HOW TO PLAN YOUR O...
05/13/2026

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE.🔥

Round out your spring with EULOGY, OR HOW TO PLAN YOUR OWN FUNERAL (AND HAVE FUN DOING IT!) by Seattle’s Brendan Healy. 🎂

April 13 - May 9, 2027.
Season tickets on sale June 1st.

About the play:
Brendan Healy is like a trick birthday candle: his flame just won’t blow out. Diagnosed with a terminal illness as a baby, he was supposed to die by 5, then 8, then 16, and on and on. Somehow, he can’t get to the dying part!. Now, he invites you to a memorial service like no other, as he shares a lifetime of experience navigating the healthcare system, managing love and student loans, and planning his own funeral. A warm, heartfelt comedy about mortality, survival, and joie de vivre.

About the playwright:
Brendan Healy is a Seattle-based playwright and theatre-maker. His full-length plays have been produced in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle, and his short plays have been produced across the country. He is a four-time finalist and one-time recipient of the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. His short play Picnic (pik’nik’): v.i. was published by Playscripts, Inc., and his full-length play The Secret Recordings of Lenin to His Lost Love… was published by Rain City Projects in the Manifesto v. 2 anthology. Some of his other full-length plays include Relatively We…; The Final Tribunal into the Mysterious Death of Mister Senor Salvador Dali; Hotdish, City of Presidents, Mangrove Park, and two children’s plays. He received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. The Seattle Times declared his play Suffering, Inc. one of the seven top plays of the decade and Eulogy… as among Seattle’s best theatre in 2025. He is a company member of Pony World Theatre.

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE. 🔥This winter, burn it all down with SLAY by longtime coll...
05/13/2026

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE. 🔥

This winter, burn it all down with SLAY by longtime collaborator Yussef El Guindi, directed by Melory Mirashrafi. 🚬

February 2 - 28, 2027.
Season tickets on sale June 1st.

About the play:
Hossam and Rachel’s dog, Albert, has been acting strange—growling, lashing out, running away—but why?! Hossam is an arts journalist (recently fired), and Rachel is an optometrist (her eyes are on Gaza), they have a loving home! In search of answers, the couple consult a pet therapist. According to her, Albert’s altered behavior has more to do with the political climate. He’s a conservative. As tensions sizzle at home, the three are pulled into a maelstrom with deadly consequences. SLAY, a world premiere play by Yussef El Guindi, is a quick-witted dark comedy about the absurd nature of our times. And the complicated nature of pet ownership.

About the playwright:
Born in Egypt, raised in London and now based in Seattle, Yussef El Guindi’s work frequently examines the collision of ethnicities, cultures and politics that face immigrants. His most recent productions: “Wife of Headless Man Investigates Her Own Disappearance” at Annex Theatre in Seattle; “Hotter Than Egypt” at Marin Theatre Company, ACT in Seattle, and at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; “People of the Book” at ACT, and at Urban Stages (NYC); and “The Talented Ones” at Artists Repertory Theatre. Bloomsbury/ Methuen Drama has published “The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi”; and Broadway Play Publishing Inc. and Dramatists Play Service have published a number of his other plays. He is the recipient of several honors, including the “Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Citation of Excellence Award”, the “Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award”, Colorado’s “Henry Award”, American Blues Theater’s “Blue Ink Playwriting Award”, Seattle’s “The Stranger’s Genius Award”, “L.A. Weekly’s Excellence in Playwriting Award”, Seattle’s “Gregory Award” and the “Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award”. In 2023, he was selected by the Royal Society of Literature as an International Writer.

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE. 🔥This fall, prepare for shenanigans with MARSHA BLOVOTNIK...
05/13/2026

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE. 🔥

This fall, prepare for shenanigans with MARSHA BLOVOTNIK AND THE MARVELOUS MAGICAL CHICKEN SOUP by Dan Kitrosser, directed by Luan Schooler. 🥘

October 27 - November 22, 2026.
Season tickets on sale June 1st.

About the show:
Marsha Blovotnik is angry. So angry! The whole world is fakakte, but for this Socialist Jewish Le***an, it’s her sister Janice who really burns her tuchus. She invited herself over for Shabbos dinner and then arrived three minutes early! Who does that?! But then a mysterious ancestor gives Marsha a pot of magical chicken soup with the power to cure the whole world’s woes—if only Marsha can cool down enough to share a bowl of soup with her sister. Marsha Blovotnik and the Marvelous Magical Chicken Soup is a buoyant, crackling comedy about how to live in a dumpster fire.

About the playwright:
Dan Kitrosser (he/they/gay!) is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, solo performer, and cabaret artist who spent formative years in Portland, Oregon—their theatrical second home. A proud alumni of LineStorm Playwrights, Dan taught and collaborated with Artists Repertory Theater, Bag & Baggage, and Profile Theater, and remains deeply connected to Portland’s vibrant theater community. Their plays include Tar Baby (Edinburgh Fringe First Award; Amnesty International Special Citation), and he co-wrote We the Animals (Sundance 2018; NEXT Innovator Award; five Independent Spirit Award nominations). As drag persona Karen Tenderness—winner of Best Cabaret at the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival—Dan has performed all over the country, with residencies at the Stonewall Inn and Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens. Dan is thrilled to work with Luan Schooler and Artists Rep to bring Marsha Blovotnik to the rose city!

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE. 🔥 This fall, prepare for shenanigans with MARSHA BLOVOTNI...
05/13/2026

Announcing ART’s 2026/27 Season: COMEDIES FOR A WORLD ON FIRE. 🔥

This fall, prepare for shenanigans with MARSHA BLOVOTNIK AND THE MARVELOUS MAGICAL CHICKEN SOUP by Dan Kitrosser. 🥘

Next winter, burn it all down with the world premiere of SLAY by longtime collaborator Yussef El Guindi. 🚬

In the spring, you’re invited to a memorial service like no other with EULOGY, OR HOW TO PLAN YOUR OWN FUNERAL (AND HAVE FUN DOING IT!) by Seattle’s Brendan Healy. 🎂

Join us for a season of fiery new plays by three playwrights with roots in the Pacific Northwest.

“It’s a season that’s very much in the spirit of what Artists Rep is here to do,” says Artistic Director, Luan Schooler, “take real creative risks in an intimate space with artists and audiences who are willing to go on that adventure together. The world is on fire; come laugh with us!”

Season tickets on sale June 1st. 🔥

“E.M. Lewis’ Apple Hunters!, which opened at Artists Repertory Theatre over the weekend, is about four men in search of ...
04/10/2026

“E.M. Lewis’ Apple Hunters!, which opened at Artists Repertory Theatre over the weekend, is about four men in search of a rare apple. Of course, they’re actually searching for what it represents: youthful friendship and vulnerability. But they can’t talk about that, so they look for the apple.”

Thanks for seeing the show, Portland Mercury!

“APPLE HUNTERS! is listed as the “feel-good” show in Artist Repertory Theatre’s season, presumably because “will lighten...
04/09/2026

“APPLE HUNTERS! is listed as the “feel-good” show in Artist Repertory Theatre’s season, presumably because “will lighten your heart and restore your faith in humanity” would have been too long. But that’s really what E.M. Lewis’s gorgeous new play does.”

Thank you, ! 🍎

Another night of Apple Hunters! tonight at 7:30pm. Don’t miss this gorgeous show, running through April 26th.

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