**SOLD OUT** The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [Revised]
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesALL REMAINING PERFORMANCES OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) ARE SOLD OUT! To request being put on the waitlist for the remaining performances, please contact our box office at 503-345-9590 or by emailing boxoffice@bagnbaggage.org Fresh out of COVID lockdown, three enthusiastic, overachieving actors attempt to stage all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays… Read More
**SOLD OUT** The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [Revised]
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesALL REMAINING PERFORMANCES OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) ARE SOLD OUT! To request being put on the waitlist for the remaining performances, please contact our box office at 503-345-9590 or by emailing boxoffice@bagnbaggage.org Fresh out of COVID lockdown, three enthusiastic, overachieving actors attempt to stage all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays… Read More
ASL Interpreted Performance: Complete Works
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesThe Sunday, July 18th performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) will be accompanied by American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Reserve your free tickets and join us at the Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza for the performance! The interpreters are: Dot Hearn Kassie Hughes Dana Walls
ASL Interpreted Performance: Complete Works
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesThe Sunday, July 18th performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) will be accompanied by American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Reserve your free tickets and join us at the Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza for the performance! The interpreters are: Dot Hearn Kassie Hughes Dana Walls
HomePlate (12-10-17)
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesSunday, December 10th, 2017 (11:00am – 12:30pm) The Vault Theater, 350 E Main St, Hillsboro, OR There are 2,202 homeless students in Washington county - of those, 406 are unaccompanied youth. In 2004, community partners came together to discuss the increasing number of young people without homes in Washington County. Police officers were picking up… Read More
HomePlate (12-10-17)
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesSunday, December 10th, 2017 (11:00am – 12:30pm) The Vault Theater, 350 E Main St, Hillsboro, OR There are 2,202 homeless students in Washington county - of those, 406 are unaccompanied youth. In 2004, community partners came together to discuss the increasing number of young people without homes in Washington County. Police officers were picking up… Read More
No Filter Improv at The Vault
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesNo Filter is Andrew Beck, Jacquelle Davis, Kaia Maarja Hiller, Cassie Greer, Peter Schuyler, and Gary Strong. You’ve seen what some of these actors can do with a script; now come see what they do without one! Join No Filter for an evening of improvised hilarity, inspired by YOUR suggestions. Comedy. Havoc. Questionable Morals. What… Read More
No Filter Improv at The Vault
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesNo Filter is Andrew Beck, Jacquelle Davis, Kaia Maarja Hiller, Cassie Greer, Peter Schuyler, and Gary Strong. You’ve seen what some of these actors can do with a script; now come see what they do without one! Join No Filter for an evening of improvised hilarity, inspired by YOUR suggestions. Comedy. Havoc. Questionable Morals. What… Read More
As You Like It or, Love In A Forest
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesAdventure. Mistaken Identity. Romance. Rivalry. Comedy. Love. Shakespeare’s classic As You Like It gets the full Bag&Baggage treatment in a new summer location (The Vault Courtyard and Theater), and in a new, world premiere adaptation! B&B is digging deep into the literary history of the Bard’s brilliant romantic comedy, combining Shakespeare’s story of Rosalind and… Read More
Blithe Spirit
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesFrom the delightfully wicked mind of Noël Coward, the 20th century’s master of British wit and sophistication, Blithe Spirit sparkles with out-of-this-world charm and spectral hijinks! And, with all of the theatrical technology in our new building, this production will be filled with delightful techno-trickery and stage magic! In a plan to gather background information… Read More
Death and the Maiden
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesAriel Dorfman’s explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy and still struggles with a fascist, violent history. In many ways, Death and the Maiden has more to say to America today than it ever has, and is a chilling, gripping tale of revenge and paranoia. Gerardo… Read More
Charles Dickens Writes A Christmas Carol
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesThe most popular production in Bag&Baggage history returns to christen our new home with laughter and cheer this holiday season! It’s the night before Christmas and Charles Dickens is struck by a powerful inspiration: to write a story that will remind everyone of the true meaning of Christmas. But how? How, how, how? Join Dickens… Read More
Brontë
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesPLEASE NOTE: The venue for this production has been moved to the Hillsboro Public Library, Brookwood Branch, with limited performance dates. More information on this move can be found here. This dramatic reconstruction of the turbulent inner and outer lives of the Bronte sisters has been staged in London and Dublin and all over the… Read More
Brontë
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesPLEASE NOTE: The venue for this production has been moved to the Hillsboro Public Library, Brookwood Branch, with limited performance dates. More information on this move can be found here. This dramatic reconstruction of the turbulent inner and outer lives of the Bronte sisters has been staged in London and Dublin and all over the… Read More
Spinning Into Butter
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesPolitical Correctness: 1. Of, relating to, or supporting broad social, political, and educational change, especially to redress historical injustices in matters such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation;, and, 2. Being or perceived as being overly concerned with such change, often to the exclusion of other matters. Which is it? Spinning Into Butter explores… Read More
Romeo & Juliet/Layla & Majnun
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesShakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers has been described as “timeless”…perhaps more so than most people think! There is ample evidence to suggest that one of the main literary sources for the Bard’s story of feuding families comes from a 12th Century Persian tale called Layla & Majnun. In Nizami’s epic poem, two “star-crossed lovers” rebel… Read More
PARFUMERIE
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United Statesby Miklos Laszlo, adapted by EP Dowdall DUE TO ROAD CONDITIONS, THE THURSDAY DECEMBER 15TH PERFORMANCE OF PARFUMERIE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE CONTACT THE BOX OFFICE AT BOXOFFICE@BAGNBAGGAGE.ORG OR 503 345 9590 TO RESCHEDULE YOUR TICKETS This new adaptation of the 1936 Hungarian play that inspired a trio of iconic films (Shop Around the Corner,… Read More
THE DROWNING GIRLS
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesBY BETH GRAHAM, DANIELA VLASKALIC AND CHARLIE TOMLINSON Bessie, Alice and Margaret have two things in common: they were all married to George Joseph Smith and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband by reliving the shocking events leading… Read More
THE GRADUATE
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United Statesby Buck Henry, Terry Johnson, Charles Webb & Calder Willingham Coo Coo Ca Choo, Mrs. Robinson! Bag&Baggage is thrilled to present the Oregon premiere of the critically acclaimed adaptation of the 1960s film and novel, The Graduate. Benjamin has excellent grades, very proud parents and…since he helped Mrs. Robinson with her zipper…a fine future behind… Read More
CORIOLANUS
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United Statesby Thomas Sheridan, adapted from William Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and familial betrayal is a shockingly contemporary tale of intrigue, spin-doctors, and divided politics. Coriolanus, a powerful and arrogant Roman general, holds nothing but contempt for the people of Rome. After the Tribunes banish him, Coriolanus raises an army to take… Read More
JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesJANE AUSTEN'S EMMA by Jane Austen, Adapted by Michael Fry An Oregon Premiere In celebration of the bicentenary of the novel's publication NOTE: Thursday, May 5th's "Preview Performance" is PAY WHAT YOU WILL! Show up to the Venetian Theatre on Thursday, May 5th (before 7:15pm) and make a donation, in any amount, to see the show… Read More
MOBY DICK, REHEARSED
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesMOBY DICK, REHEARSED By Herman Melville, adapted by Orson Welles Directed by Scott Palmer TICKETS "An adventure in theatre going...There is nothing else anywhere near like Moby Dick, Rehearsed in the theatre." - The New York Daily News A Shakespearean company meets to begin rehearsals for a production of King Lear. The director enters and… Read More
A KBNB KRISTMAS KAROL
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesA KBNB KRISTMAS KAROL By Scott Palmer, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A World Premiere 1940s Radio-show Holiday Farce The final show in our KBNB Radio Classics Trilogy The Venetian Theatre, Hillsboro TICKETS "In seven seasons, Hillsboro's provocative professional troupe, Bag&Baggage, has become an expert Christmas spoofer." -The Oregonian The golden age… Read More
ROPE
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesROPE by Patrick Hamilton the play that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Venetian Theatre, Hillsboro TICKETS https://youtu.be/fN5OoDLqByQ See the latest updates about this production! "In terms of tight, tense writing, Patrick Hamilton's Rope is a winsomely effective piece of work...a taut, edgy play." -OffBroadway Reviews For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the… Read More
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesTHE BEST OF EVERYTHING From the novel by Rona Jaffe, Adapted by Julie Kramer A West Coast Premiere The Venetian Theatre, Hillsboro TICKETS See the latest updates about this production! https://youtu.be/IN1La0JyYB4 “This clever adaptation of Rona Jaffe's novel about secretaries in the 1950s is an absolute treat… THE BEST OF EVERYTHING nimbly lives up to… Read More
RICHARD III
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesRICHARD III, by William Shakespeare Adapted and Directed by Scott Palmer A NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Outdoors at the Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza TICKETS https://youtu.be/-qiqhrw-PIU “Shakespeare's Richard III receives, from Scott Palmer, a pointing up of the comic possibilities without losing the horror of amoral destruction as Richard steadily makes his path to the… Read More
Our Country’s Good
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesRuns: May 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 Preview Night: Thursday, May 7, 2015 Opening Night: Friday, May 8, 2015 Event Time: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sunday matinees at 2:00pm Event Location: The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main Street, Hillsboro 97123 Special Events:… Read More
The Six Gentlepersons of Verona
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesRuns: March 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 - 2015 Preview Night: Thursday, March 5, 2015 Opening Night: Friday, March 6, 2015 Event Time: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sunday matinees at 2:00pm Event Location: The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main Street, Hillsboro 97123 Special Events: Meet-the-cast Talk… Read More
Miracle on 43rd Street
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesA 1940s Holiday Radio Massacre A 1940s Holiday Radio MassacreRuns: November 28, 29, 30, December 4, 5 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 - 2014 Preview Night: Friday, November 28, 2014 Opening Night: Saturday, November 29, 2014 Event Time: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sunday matinees at… Read More
Dial “M” For Murder
350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United StatesRuns: October 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, November 1, 2 - 2014 Preview Night: October 16, 2014 Opening Night: October 17, 2014 Event Times: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sunday matinees at 2:00pm Event Location: The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main Street, Hillsboro 97123 Special Events: Meet-the-cast Talk Backs… Read More