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!
CoHo Clown Festival 2024
September 6 – October 6, 2024
This September, CoHo is thrilled to announce our third annual Clown Festival, celebrating physical comedy, movement arts, humor, and fringe performance! Join us for four weeks of performances and interactive clown experiences. Celebrate the joys of life with Philip Cuomo’s dance ritual, brush up on your red-nose skills in a clown workshop, connect with your clown community at a social happy hour, or simply kick back and take in a funny show. With programming for all ages, there’s something for everyone, so click the button below to find out more about our full line-up for 2024!
Infinite Life
Written by Annie Baker
Presented by Third Rail
10/25 – 11/10, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm,
Sundays at 2:00 pm
In a fasting clinic in Northern California, five women swap stories, philosophize, and humorously provoke each other while undergoing a course of treatment that promises to cure a variety of aliments from cancer to thyroid issues; infections to chronic pain. As their individual experiences thread together and pull apart, the cumulative effect is a kind of mediation on the complexities of pain and longing, the experience of living a corporeal existence, and how true connection may help to transcend it.
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?
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