"It's the new year and theater companies are announcing their literal schedules for 2027, bless their boots. 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!"
"* Broadway Portland announced its Portland 2026-2027 season, kicking off in July 2026 with Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen in July. Highlights for the season: The Outsiders in November, Hadestown in January 2027 😳, and Clue in March of next year. See the whole season line-up here. * Theater company Hand2Mouth announced a festival of new works, titled New2You, which will-in its first year-present commissioned pieces by local artists, built around ideas of body and technology. Kicking off in the Annex at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), from Fri March 27-Sat April 4, the list of commissioned creators includes multi-talent performance artist Pepper Pepper and collaborators Daye Thomas and Dylan Hankins, whose 2025 Faena we raved about."
"* On the heels of that Broadway in Portland season announcement, a new study commissioned by the City of Portland advised against the plan in place to renovate Keller Auditorium, the city's main venue for Broadway tours. 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 announced its 2026–2027 season, beginning in July 2026 with Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen and featuring The Outsiders, Hadestown, and Clue. Hand2Mouth will present New2You, a festival of new works focused on body and technology, at PICA's Annex from March 27 to April 4, with commissioned creators including Pepper Pepper, Daye Thomas, and Dylan Hankins. The City of Portland commissioned a feasibility study and the results advise against pursuing both a renovated Keller Auditorium and a new Broadway-capable venue at Portland State University. In 2024, City Council approved both competing plans and funded the study to assess market demand for two touring-show venues.
Read at Portland Mercury
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