Spencer Conway

Lakewood Theatre Company continues its 66th season of live theatre with Alan Ayckbourn's comedy, Taking Steps. In Ayckbourn's frenetic story, a bucket manufacturer is thinking of buying the house he and his ex-ballerina dancer wife are already leasing. However, the wife is preparing to de-camp, unable to stand life in the house or the husband!

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Richard Herstek premiers An Unqualified Genius, a playful twist on an emperor-has-no-clothes tale about an avant-garde theatre troupe traumatized by the realization that their late director and spiritual leader was a mischievous fraud.

Bullshot Crummond: The Evil Eye of Jabar and The Invisible Bride of Death A world premiere comedy in two episodes By Ron House Based on Bullshot Crummond by Diz White, Ron House, Alan Shearman, John Neville-Andrews and Derek Cunningham March 4 through April 10, 2016.

Dmae Roberts is directing a staged reading of this wonderfully crafted original play Deception by Portland playwright Nancy Moss.

Defunkt Theatre presents the world premiere of The Undiscovered Country by DC Copeland. Directed by Paul Angelo, the production runs today, May 8-June 20, 2015 at The Back Door Theater, 4321 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR (enter through the Common Grounds Coffee Shop).

Defunkt Theatre presents the world premiere of The Undiscovered Country by DC Copeland. Directed by Paul Angelo, the production runs May 8-June 20, 2015.

What if a group of modern-day folks, annoyed by modern technology and the fast pace of life in the 21st century, decided to create a place where it would always be 1955?

Michael Frayn's farce-within-a-farce is simply the funniest play ever written by a human, and it's so good that even high schoolers can get surefire laughs with it. Put this script in the hands of talented professionals, however, who can find laughs beyond what's written on paper, and you've got an evening so stuffed with laughter that you'd better prepare yourself to ache from all the funny.

Third Rail Repertory Theatre Presents: Noises Off by Michael Frayn, Directed by Scott Yarbrough* at Winningstad Theatre, PCPA, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205.

Third Rail Repertory Theatre Presents: Noises Off by Michael Frayn, Directed by Scott Yarbrough* at Winningstad Theatre, PCPA, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205.

Ten diverse actors will culminate two years of fulltime professional actor training with a Graduate Showcase at the Portland Actors Conservatory May 18-21, 2011 at 7:30pm at Portland Actors Conservatory's Firehouse Theatre, 1436 SW Montgomery St., Portland, Ore., 97201.

Ten diverse actors will culminate two years of fulltime professional actor training with a Graduate Showcase at the Portland Actors Conservatory May 18-21, 2011 at 7:30pm at Portland Actors Conservatory's Firehouse Theatre, 1436 SW Montgomery St., Portland, Ore., 97201. Tickets are available online at http://www.actorsconservatory.com or by calling (503) 274- 1717; all tickets are $15.

We're willing to bet you have a story that portrays you in the light of a fool for love. We invite you to share your story with us and be a part of CoHo Theater's lobby display to complement CoHo's upcoming production of Fool for Love by Sam Shepard.

El Grito Del Bronx, written by Migdalia Cruz, directed by Antonio Sonera plays on April 3-25, 2009. An English Language Production.