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Discover CMNW's 2024 Summer Festival, 'The Beethoven Effect'. Enjoy a celebration of Beethoven's influence on classical music with a series of performances. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Lakewood Theatre Company's production of A FEW GOOD MEN is set to open on March 1st in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Learn more about the production here!

Appropriate for opera newbies, opera aficionados, and all the rest of us in between, this classic detective-story-meets-fairy-tale opera composed by Evan Meier with libretto by E.M. Lewis truly has something for everyone.

Artists Repertory Theatre has made the decision to suspend production of its previously planned 2023-24 Season. The company cites a lack of funding as the cause of the suspension.

Artists Repertory Theatre has announced its 41st season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets!

Do you remember what it was like to be 17? Excited, angsty, passionate, confused, and hopeful all at once. And maybe you fell in love for the first time with someone who was oh-so-wrong but also perhaps oh-so-right. If any of that sounds familiar, and especially if you happened to be a teenager in the 90s, Jessica Wallenfels’ GREAT WIDE OPEN should be on your radar.

This summer, Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) launches their new Young Artist Institute (YAI), a new intensive education program for 16 talented string players from around the world, ages 14-18.

Do It For Mead Productions will present a staged reading of a new play by Riley Anna, The Misadventures of Missy Black, as part of the 2022 Portland Fertile Ground Festival. The reading, directed by Maddie Nguyen, will be available for free streaming online from January 30 through February 3, 2021.

Chamber Music Northwest presents the 2021 Summer Festival beginning July 1.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the national awardees of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, which was held virtually in convenings for each discipline that began on March 8, 2021 and continued through May 22, 2021.

UP Theater at the University of Portland has announced its upcoming lineup of 2021 digital productions. The two shows are The Public and Clue: Stay-At-Home Edition, which will both take place online in spring 2021.

American Blues Theater presents the 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival digitally, May 1-4, 2020. For the first time ever, audiences around the world can access the scripts of the Blue Ink Playwrighting Festival online, free of charge.

Chicago Dramatists has welcomed five new resident playwrights. Read the announcement below:

Chicago Dramatists has announced its new slate of resident playwrights.

American Blues Theater, under the continued leadership of Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside, announces the winner of the 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Award is Recent Unsettling Events by Andrea Stolowitz. A staged reading of the play will be presented as part of the 2020 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival, along with new work by finalists Football Football Football Football (or I Love Lave Dash) by Kristoffer Diaz, The Mermaids' Parade by Gina Femia, and Crying on Television by R. Eric Thomas. The Blue Ink Playwriting Festival runs May 2-4, 2020 at 4809 N Ravenswood, Suite #126, in Chicago.