Join us for Season 29 at CoHo!
Now in our 30th Season, join us for our 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 30 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 30 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!
The Tortoise, Hare and the Bear
Work in Progress showing!
Presented By the CoHo Clown Cohort
April 06, 2025 @ 2:00 PM
The CoHo Clown Cohort is launching a new show and we need your help! We are raising funds to develop our next show with a work-in-progress performance that allows audience members to peek into the CoHo Clown Cohort process.
Our newest production is inspired by the children’s story, The Tortoise and the Hare. Unlike the classic story, our comedic version will have characters racing through the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest, with an ending that values collaboration. This feels relevant as our culture leans into retributive justice and winning at all costs. Our performance will add a third character, the bear, a catalyst for the Tortoise and Hare’s friendship.
After the performance, audience members will be invited to share feedback, which will directly inform our next stage of development – extended rehearsals culminating in 5 public performances at the 2025 CoHo Clown Festival.
Join us in developing this exciting new project! All ticket proceeds will go towards paying the artistic team for the full production of The Tortoise, Hare and the Bear in September 2025. If you would like to make an additional donation to the project, please do so here.
The Tortoise, Hare & the Bear is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Office of Arts & Culture.
Beirut Wedding Presents: Push: Black Mamas Changing the Culture of Birth
Presented by Beirut Wedding
April 25, 26 & 27th 2025
Push is a new play written by Roberta Hunte and Bobby Bermea. Informed by the narratives and expertise of Black doulas, public health workers, midwives, birthing people, researchers, and home visitors, it addresses the critical challenges faced by Black women and birthing people in US medical settings and highlights the humanity, joy, and possibilities for change that are happening on a daily basis.
Directed by Jamie Rea and Bobby Bermea and produced by Roberta Hunte and Beirut Wedding, Push is an invitation to come laugh, shed a tear, and open your heart to the beautiful storytelling of mamas changing the culture of birth.
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?
CoHo needs your support
CoHo is a nonprofit theater that heavily relies on the generosity of our community to continue. If you support our mission, please give what you can!