Join us for Season 29 at CoHo!
Now in our 29th Season, join us for our 2024/2025 Lineup!
CoHo’s mission is to uplift and champion new and emerging artists, giving them access to resources, mentorship, and a stage to present their latest work. Packed to the gills with some of the freshest talent in town, Season 29 is all about community; connecting with the artists in Portland and creating opportunities for developing creatives.
Chock-full of MainStage plays, nights of music, movement, and poetry, the CoHo Residency, co-productions, clowns, camaraderie, and so much more, Season 29 promises to tickle the imagination and delight the senses. Check out what’s in store below, and save the dates for your favorite shows.
About the Season
We have a fine lineup ahead of us – Check out what’s on the docket for Season 29!
A Christmas Carol
Presented by Julia Bray & Thom Bray
12/21/24 @ 2 PM
Join us for a re-imagined audience interactive presentation of Dickens’ famous reading of his beloved story. A CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the most beloved holiday stories in the English language. Here is the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his Christmas Eve conversion from “covetous old sinner” to “as good a friend as the City of London would ever know”!
In the mid 1860s, Charles Dickens took to the stage to give dramatic readings of this story to sold out crowds. Working from the text of the author’s original reading copy, veteran actor Thom Bray faithfully recreates the theatrical experience that Dickens’ Victorian audiences had!
Stage Fright Presents:
STITCHES & They Were A Dracula
Presented by Stage Fright
1/3 & 1/4, 2025 @ 7:30 PM, 1/5 @ 4 PM
Did you miss the Stage Fright Festival last October? Fear not. The twisted minds behind the world’s first and only queer horror theatre festival are resurrecting two productions from this past year’s lineup for a double creature feature honoring the iconic divas Dracula and Frankenstein. An ensemble led by Summer Olsson performs They Were A Dracula, a retelling of Bram Stoker’s tale with a few eyebrow-raising twists and a steady stream of blood. STITCHES features Nathalie FitzSimmons in a queer body horror clown show about the right to repair.
A Case for the Existence of God
Written by Samuel D. Hunter
Presented by Third Rail
2/28 – 3/16, 2025, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm,
Sundays at 2:00 pm
Keith and Ryan, two working dads who seemingly have little in common, meet in Keith’s cubicle to discuss business. Despite different upbringings, identities, and lifestyles — and the primarily transactional nature of their relationship — the men connect over their experiences of fatherhood; growing up in a small, rural town; and the loneliness of lost opportunities and fragile circumstances. Tender and surprising, Samuel Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God shines a light on the ways in which disparate lives can commingle and create a deep and indelible imprint of empathy and connection.
Precipice: Remembering, Forgetting, and Claiming Home
Written by Chris Gonzalez
Presented by Third Rail
5/16 – 7/1, 2025, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm,
Sundays at 2:00 pm
Precipice is a magical-realist, fluid poem that tenderly holds place, house/home and mementos as doorways to connection, while deeply questioning materialistic notions of ownership. This one-woman show presses against the boundaries of media reports, geological truths, legacy, DNA reports, and the value of listening to the land as a third-generation Black Portlander and Oregonian. Who owns your idea of belonging? What is the legacy of the place you call home? As far as you can tell, is everyone free?
Scenario! Introduction to
Playwriting and Stage
Presented by PDX Playwrights
Workshop: Feb. 3-7, 2025 from 6-9 PM
Festival of Live Shows: Feb 8 & 9, 2025
In this seven-day workshop and showcase at CoHo Theatre from February 3 – 9, with evening classes Monday- Friday 6-9 PM, and a festival of staged readings on the weekend, we’ll examine the art of playwriting, and ask the question: How does one create a uniquely compelling storytelling experience for the stage? Together we’ll investigate how to build a world, give voice to distinct characters, incite a cause-and-effect story arch, and visually manifest a story with props, body movement and gesture, and minimal lighting and sound effects.
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