"They're your over-prepared friends trying to get everyone to pitch in for the group trip, except their group trip involves selling tickets for a Tony-award winning production. Welcome back to Art Snack, a smol attempt at streamlining the beautiful chaos of Portland's arts and culture scene. If the thing you want to read about isn't in this week's Art Snack, check back next week. And it never hurts to put it on my radar. Anyhoo, let's snack!"
"In 2024, City Council gave two competing plans the go ahead-one to renovate the Keller and another to build a venue on Portland State University's campus that would be able to host Broadway shows. At that time, the city also commissioned a $60,000 feasibility study to research whether Portland could produce enough demand for two Broadway show venues. The results seem to suggest that we cannot."
Broadway Portland released its 2026–2027 season, opening in July 2026 with Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen and featuring The Outsiders (November), Hadestown (January 2027), and Clue (March). Theater company Hand2Mouth announced New2You, a festival of commissioned new works exploring body and technology, running at the PICA Annex March 27–April 4, with contributors including Pepper Pepper, Daye Thomas, and Dylan Hankins. A City of Portland–commissioned feasibility study advised against proceeding with both plans to renovate Keller Auditorium and build a new Broadway-capable venue at Portland State University. The study, funded at $60,000, concluded that demand likely cannot support two Broadway venues.
Read at Portland Mercury
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