This year, Oregon Ballet Theatre's much-loved Christmas production of The Nutcracker features the full Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra performing live. You're invited to follow our heroine Marie on a wild festive adventure that is filled with toys that spring to life, where snowflakes pirouette and enter a world of sweets, where you'll be treated to no less than 17 dance vignettes!

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is hitting the road once again in 2025, bringing their electrifying holiday rock opera to audiences across North America. Join them for a festive celebration that spans over two decades of Christmas magic! Along with The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, fans can expect some of the band's greatest hits, making it clear why audiences keep coming back year after year.

The holidays are on the way and what's more Christmassy than the carols? If you're in the mood for a festive sing-a-long, our friends at fever have you covered with this wonderful yuletide concert, featuring all your favorite carols played by a talented string quartet in an evocative candlelit venue. So Come All Ye Faithful and enjoy a not-so-Silent Night of Joy To The World!

Good times never seemed so good, especially with the Neil Diamond musical heading on tour! A Beautiful Noise is a brand new production about the Grammy Award-winning legend Neil Diamond's life. Tony Award-winning 'Once on This Island' producer Kev Davenport will join forces with Four Season's Bob Gaudio in producing this musical. You'll experience the journey through Diamond's life with some of his memorable hits including 'Love on the Rocks', 'Songs Sung Blue', and of course 'Sweet Caroline' to keep your feet tapping along the way. It'll be an experience like no other!

Langston Hughes' heartwarming gospel play is here for the holiday season, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ through the uplifting genre of gospel music. Follow the star to Bethlehem in this modern staging of Hughes' original musical, and rejoice in the good news that this show brings for a community often on the outskirts, rather like a certain baby 2,000 years ago...

The Oregon International Ballet Academy presents this Christmas classic once more, with the talented dancers of the school, alongside special guest artists!

Directed by Artistic Director Paul Destrooper, join Ballet Victoria as they usher in the season with the most magical Christmas experience of them all in The Nutcracker! With wonderful choreography, glittering sets and costumes and of course, Tchaikovsky's unforgettable score, there's no better way to get in the holiday mood!

Everyone loves a holiday special and there is nothing more special than this awesome festive experience from our friends at fever. Featuring a raft of the season's most beloved and timeless music, including extracts from The Nutcracker, join a live string quartet in a wonderful candlelit venue for a Christmas celebration so merry, you'll be smiling 'til New Year's Eve!

Charlie and the gang are here to show you the true meaning of Christmas in this stage adaptation of the classic TV Special. Debuting in 2013, this theatrical production faithfully recreates the atmosphere of the comic strips, and features the jazzy score from the TV show as well as a group of Christmas sing-a-longs at the end.

Join the Oregon Symphony and conductor Sean O'Loughlin for the season's merriest event, ready to get you in the Holiday mood for three jolly events across December 13 - 14!

Portland is about to be painted with all that jazz! Witness this screening of Chicago: The Movie with conductor Evan Roider helping to truly bring the razzle dazzle to the concert hall, conducting the Oregon Symphony Orchestra performing John Kander and Fred Ebb's timeless soundtrack of hit after hit, live!

With the release of Mannheim Steamroller's first holiday album 1984 came the kind of fame that made the act a veritable Christmas-time tradition. With founder and composer Chip Davis at the helm, the all-American music troupe continues to tour extensively, bringing Yuletide cheer to audiences throughout the US with a unique Neo-Classical take on popular carols and songs. It's no wonder that the Mannheim Steamroller is the top-selling Holiday Act of all time!

Celebrating 30 years of home-made beats! Inspiring the music-makers in all of us, international megahit Stomp conjures up intricate rhythms from everyday household items. Marvel as the cast of eight incredibly talented players fill your theater with an orchestra of percussion, with only garbage bin lids, hammers and broomsticks as their instruments.

An Oregon tradition that just keeps getting bigger and better, join the Northwest Community Gospel chorus as they accompany the Oregon Symphony to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas for another fantastic year! With jubilant renditions of some of your festive favorites, this Gospel Christmas is sure to get your hands clapping, feet stomping, and voices raising for the spirit of the season.

No season is complete without a rousing performance of Carl Orff's lustful and triumphant Carmina Burana and its showstopping O Fortuna chorus. Originally derived from a series of Medieval poems, it has become one of the most exhilarating live experiences to be found in concert halls across the world, and Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall is no exception!

The lives of four young bohemians are the focus of Puccini's heartbreaking opera, the work that launched a thousand adaptations and became the origin of the groundbreaking hit musical RENT. Living life in poverty, the characters fall in and out of love in the city of love, navigating a life less ordinary and trying to find light in the darkness. Although the struggle and strife (and excitement) of 1840's Paris may seem worlds away to us now, the themes have remained timeless and universal.