"If you need cheering up, for example, you might try Broadway Rose's Once Upon a Mattress, which opens May 22, or catch one of the last performances of Portland Playhouse's nonstop party SpongeBob the Musical."
"Meanwhile, many upcoming shows are taking on serious and contemporary subject matter. Readers Theatre Gresham, for example, is presenting , which concerns a homophobic hate crime, and STAGES Performing Arts Academy is preparing for the premiere of the musical Catch Me When I Fall, a show about economic hardship in Washington County."
"Somewhere in between, Third Rail is finishing its season with the sci-fi/horror mashup , while Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer at Portland Center Stage employs humor to comment on food insecurity, and Next to Normal at Twilight Theater features a wealth of wit as well as a main character who lives with bipolar disorder."
"In Los Dreamers, Scoobi, an undocumented Latine university student, believes a marriage to all-American Dylan is her best bet for staying in the U.S. to study law. The setup may sound like a sit-com, and Los Dreamers, according to its director, University of Oregon theater professor Michael Malek Najjar, is rich with laughter and live music."
Oregon theaters present productions spanning light and dark themes to meet varied audience needs. Broadway Rose stages Once Upon a Mattress, and Portland Playhouse offers SpongeBob the Musical. Readers Theatre Gresham presents a work about a homophobic hate crime, while STAGES Performing Arts Academy prepares Catch Me When I Fall, a musical about economic hardship in Washington County. Third Rail finishes with a sci-fi/horror mashup, and Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer at Portland Center Stage uses humor to comment on food insecurity. Twilight Theater presents Next to Normal, featuring wit and a main character living with bipolar disorder. Milagro Theatre continues Latine social justice, Theatre in the Grove presents Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, and the University of Oregon rehearses Los Dreamers, about an undocumented Latine student seeking legal study through a marriage plan.
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