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
Theatre is located in Fir Acres Theatre on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 54
email theatre@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7491
fax 503-768-7671
Chair Rebecca Lingafelter
Theatre
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 54
Portland OR 97219