Portland Theatre and Dance

The Lewis & Clark College Theatre Department maintains a close relationship with the theatre world beyond the campus. There are a number of larger and smaller theatre and dance companies in the city that offer a variety of offerings. In fact, our students regularly attend theatre productions in town, and the faculty is closely involved with the theatre life in Portland as members of board of directors, directors, dramaturges, and designers for professional productions in town, and as active members of the theatre and dance community as such. Furthermore, many of the current and former theatre department students are invited to collaborate with the faculty on their off-campus professional work, and number of our graduates became respected theatre and dance artists in and around Portland.

In addition, the ongoing relationship between the larger theatre and dance community and the Theatre Department allows us to bring professional artists from the city to campus. Actors, directors, designers, and dancers and choreographers often teach ad hoc classes, meet with students in discussion about particular performances, offer workshops, and bring their work to the Department.

We believe that the active engagement with the larger Portland community is an essential part of the theatre education here, and the broad array of cultural events in Portland makes such engagement relatively easy. Within a short twenty-minute bus trip to downtown Portland, the students find a large number of theatre and dance companies that offer a vast array of theatre and dance forms.


THEATRE

Artists Repertory Theatre
www.artistsrep.org

Bag and Baggage
https://bagnbaggage.org

Beaverton Civic Theatre
www.beavertoncivictheatre.org

Bridgetown Conservatory
bridgetownconservatory.org

Broadway Rose Theatre Company
www.broadwayrose.com

CoHo Theatre
www.cohoproductions.org

Curious Comedy Theatre
curiouscomedy.org

Hand2Mouth Theatre
www.hand2mouththeatre.org

Imago Theatre
www.imagotheatre.com

Lakewood Theatre Company
www.lakewood-center.org

Masque Alfresco
www.masquealfresco.com

Miracle Theatre Group
www.melagro.org

New Expressive Works
newexpressiveworks.org

Northwest Children’s Theatre
nwcts.org

Northwest Classical Theatre Company
www.nwctc.org

Oregon Children’s Theatre
www.octc.org

Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
www.opsfest.org

PETE - Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
www.petensemble.org

Portland Center Stage
www.pcs.org

Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts
www.pica.org

Portland Musical Theatre Company
portlandmusicaltheater.org

Portland Opera
www.portlandopera.org

Portland Playhouse
portlandplayhouse.org

Portland Theatre Works
www.ptwks.org

Profile Theatre
www.profiletheatre.org

Red Door Project
www.reddoorproject.org

Shaking the Tree Theatre
www.shaking-the-tree.com

Sojourn Theatre
www.sojourntheatre.com

Stumptown Stages
www.stumptownstages.org

Tapestry Theatre
www.tapestrytheatre.org

Third Rail Repertory
www.thirdrailrep.org

Triangle Productions
www.tripro.org

Twilight Theatre Company
www.twilighttheatercompany.org

DANCE

AWOL
www.awoldance.org

BodyVox Dance Company
www.bodyvox.com

Do Jump Physical Theatre
www.dojump.org

Heidi Duckler Dance NW
heididucklernorthwest.org

Minh Tran and Dancers
www.mtdance.org

NW Dance Project
nwdanceproject.org

Oregon Ballet Theatre
www.obt.org

PDX Contemporary Ballet
www.pdxcb.com

Performance Works NW
pwnw-pdx.org

Polaris Dance Company
polarisdance.org

Portland Dance Film Festival
portlanddancefilmfest.com

Push/Fold
www.pushfold.org

Rejoice Diaspora Dance
www.rejoicediasporadance.com

Sean Keylock Company
www.shaunkeylock.com

Ten Tiny Dances
www.tentinydances.org

White Bird
www.whitebird.org

FESTIVALS

Fertile Ground Festival
fertilegroundpdx.org

RISK/REWARD Festival
risk-reward.org

TBA Festival
www.pica.org/tba/

VENUES

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
prca.beavertonoregon.gov

The Portland’5
www.portland5.com