Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show that artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Join host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello for a live recording of this popular radio show, heard nationwide by thousands of listeners every weekend. Featured Guests: Scaachi Koul is a Senior Writer for Slate and the co-host of the Ambie Award-winning podcast, Scamfluencers. She co-hosted the Emmy-nominated Netflix series, Follow This, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, This American Life, New York Magazine, and The Cut. Her bestselling book, One Day We’ll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award. Lidia’s newest novel is Thrust. Emma Ruth Rundle is an internationally recognized musician and a multi-disciplinary artist: a painter, director, and poet. She has released 6 full-length solo albums and collaborated with other artists such as Dylan Carlson of Earth, Chelsea Wolfe, Thou, and others. Her music has been described as a hybrid of folk, ambient noise, and metal. Tickets $25 Student & Under 35$35 General Admission$50 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) $5 Arts For All – Oregon Trail or SNAP Benefit Card required for admission with Arts for All Tickets. Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show that artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Join host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello for a live recording of this popular radio show, heard nationwide by thousands of listeners every weekend. Featured Guests: Described by NPR Music as joyous folk pop, Kuinka “laces modern folk and Americana with an electronic jolt, waltzing along the grooved edges of dream-pop, synth-pop, and Brooklyn’s mid-aughts guitar-rock revival” (Vanyaland). Their genre-defying music features several different lead singers, four-part harmony, and eclectic instrumentation. For all of their sonic experimentation, the Seattle group’s songs and live shows are linked by an infectious energy that remains present in everything they do. Zak Toscani is started as a stand-up comedy here in Portland but it has since taken him all around the world. He has performed at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and the The High Plains Comedy Festival and been highlighted by TIME, The AV Club, and The Portland Mercury. He is also the most reoccurring guest on the hit comedy podcast “All Fantasy Everything.” Tickets $25 Student & Under 35$35 General Admission$50 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) $5 Arts For All – Oregon Trail or SNAP Benefit Card required for admission with Arts for All Tickets. For more details about the Arts for All program, visit: https://racc.org/artsforall/ Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show that artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Join host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello for a live recording of this popular radio show, heard nationwide by thousands of listeners every weekend. Featured Guests: Paul F. Tompkins is a comedian, actor, and writer who the Los Angeles Times describes as “a mix of Mark Twain, old-timey radio entertainer and vaudeville actor for the internet age.” He’s appeared on over two hundred episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! and hosts popular podcasts including Threedom, The Neighborhood Listen, and Spontaneanation. An Emmy-nominated writer on Mr. Show, Tompkins also hosted TV shows like Best Week Ever and voiced Mr. Peanutbutter on the Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman. In his long-running live show “Varietopia,” he blends stand-up, character work, and improvisation, always in his signature suit and tie. Melissa Febos is the nationally bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Library, the Black Mountain Institute, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, The Sewanee Review, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Febos is a full professor at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly. Tickets $25 Student & Under 35$35 General Admission$50 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) $5 Arts For All – Oregon Trail or SNAP Benefit Card required for admission with Arts for All Tickets. For more details about the Arts for All program, visit: https://racc.org/artsforall/ Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show that artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Join host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello for a live recording of this popular radio show, heard nationwide by thousands of listeners every weekend. Featured Guests: Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received two National Magazine Awards for Fiction and was selected for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” prize and The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list (She is now decisively over 40). She serves on the board of Street Books, a mobile-library for people living outdoors. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. Kelsey McKinney is a reporter and writer who lives in Philadelphia. She is the co-creator of Normal Gossip, as well as a co owner and features writer at Defector.com. She has worked as a staff writer at Deadspin, Fusion, and Vox, and her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair and many others. Felipe Torres Medina is a Peabody and Writers Guild of America Award–winning writer from Bogotá, Colombia and the author of America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Own Immigration Story. His writing for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has earned him five Emmy nominations. Khatumu is a 23-year-old alternative folk singer-songwriter whose breakout hit “Hunting Days” went viral on TikTok, sparking a cult-like fanbase. The success of the track led to her signing with Bright Antenna Records, with whom she will release an EP in May 2025, as well as headlining shows at venues such as Mercury Lounge in New York City. Drawing inspiration from artists like Phoebe Bridgers and Dijon, Khatumu’s sound blends sweet harmonic vocals with indie folk instrumentation and kickass songwriting. Tickets $25 Student & Under 35$35 General Admission$50 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) $5 Arts For All – Oregon Trail or SNAP Benefit Card required for admission with Arts for All Tickets. For more details about the Arts for All program, visit: https://racc.org/artsforall/ Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Join Emmy award-winning host Luke Burbank for the taping of Live Wire, the fastest growing entertainment show on public radio. We’ve got a late-night stride, an Oscar Wilde wit, and the charisma of Ferris Bueller grand marshaling a parade. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with surprises.Featured Guests: TBA Tickets$30 General Admission$45 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Burlesque Over Broadway
If you can’t be famous, it’s time to be INFAMOUS!Bring out your kinky boots, top hats, dancing shoes, and playbills as Lacy Productions and the Alberta Rose Theatre Present… THE BURLESQUE OVER BROADWAY SPECTACULARGrab your tickets in advance- our tickets sell fast! The house lights are blinking. It’s time for the show.Tickets:$30 GA Advance$40 GA At the Door$45 VIP with Preferred Seating (first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only) —— Door tickets sold only if available on a first come, first served basis! Once we reach capacity there will not be tickets available at the door. 21 & Over Only Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
ASCEND: Into the Stars, A Youth Aerial Dance Experience
ASCEND: Into the Stars, A Youth Aerial Dance Experience!Young aerialists embark on a voyage through space. Tickets: $12 Youth$20 General AdmissionMinors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
Aerial Dance PDX presents: Electric Flowers – A Youth Aerial Dance Performance
Electric Flowers, A Youth Aerial Dance Experience!Young aerialists electrify the Alberta Rose Theatre. Tickets: $12 Youth$20 General AdmissionMinors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our venue FAQ here
Hello From Heaven with Psychic Medium Daniel Monroe
Join us for a magical evening at Alberta Rose Theatre as we welcome the incredibly gifted psychic medium, Daniel Monroe. Daniel has a special gift of connecting with the other side and bringing forward messages filled with love, healing, and laughter. This highly anticipated Gallery reading event will be an unforgettable experience as Daniel bridges the gap between this world and the spirit realm. Daniel, a highly sought-after psychic medium from the Portland area, has honed his abilities through training with some of the best celebrity mediums around the world. Now, he is bringing his live show, “Hello From Heaven,” to Portland, for an evening of connecting with departed loved ones. What sets Daniel apart is not just his ability to communicate with spirits, but his compassionate and caring heart. He delivers messages with grace, class, and humor, even when the messages may be heavy or emotional. Daniel’s goal is to bring comfort, closure, and healing to those who attend his events, and he does so with a warmth and kindness that is truly special. As we celebrate this special Mother’s Day event, there is no better way to honor the moms in our lives than by connecting with the love and guidance of our departed loved ones. Prepare to be moved, uplifted, and filled with the joy of knowing that our loved ones are always with us, even beyond the veil. After the show, there will be a VIP Q&A Tickets: $50 VIP **VIP IS SOLD OUT** (Preferred seating in the front three rows closest to the stage plus after show Q&A and selfie time with Daniel Monroe)$35 Middle Section$20 Rear SectionMinors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian.Recommended for ages 10+ only. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE Disclaimer: By requesting a reading and/or scheduling an appointment with Daniel Monroe, you understand and are agreeing that Daniel Monroe is not a medical professional, attorney, accountant or other licensed professional, and can not give medical, legal, or tax advice. Any information or advice given by Daniel Monroe is not to be used by you in place of any medical, legal, tax or financial advice or diagnosis from qualified and licensed professionals in those fields. Readings by Daniel Monroe are intended to offer insight into your personal life and do not in any way constitute medical, legal, tax or financial advice. Daniel Monroe will not be held liable for any damages resulting from the use of this website or as a result of any reading or appointment with Daniel Monroe, or any persons or events related thereto, and/or any actions or decisions that you may make as a result, including without limitation, actual, incidental and/or consequential damages resulting from any claims resulting from any act or omission, negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation or otherwise, including without limitation, personal injury, death, loss of income, stress (emotional or otherwise), errors or omissions, or otherwise. By attending the group reading you are agreeing to allow any photos and or videos taken to be used for any promotional purposes and social media.
RESURRECTION: A Benefit for The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven
This Easter Sunday, help us repair and rehome legendary inner southeast industrial performance and rehearsal venue, The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven! Join some of Portland’s best alternative performing artists as we throw one heck of a party to help raise the funds it will take to fully “resurrect” this beloved Portland institution. Featuring mini sets from The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven’s signature monthly events Oddville: A New Vaudevillian Tradition and their haunted music series SEANCE, as well as performances from alumni performers such as Jacki Ward (Cirque Du Soleil), Lacy Knightly (Booklover’s Burlesque), The PDX Broadsides, immersive theater company Speculative Drama, and more! Celebrating the broad spectrum of performance disciplines and artistic excellence that has graced the Steep and Thorny stage for the last 12 years, this is a night not to be missed! Spring means new life, new growth, and a rebirth, so don’t miss this opportunity to help The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven off the cross and back into the light! Want to support a little extra and get the best seats in the room? High Flyer VIP tickets include reservations for the best seats for aerial performances, a gift bag of goodies from Steep and Thorny and our sponsors, and your very own (literal) piece of The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven to take home! In addition to an all-star lineup of performances, RESURRECTION features custom drink specials from Steep and Thorny mixologists Myrrh Larsen and Megan Skye Hale and a raffle with prizes from performance groups, artisans, and local Portland businesses including Stumptown Coffee, Queer 101, Lacy Productions, Speculative Drama and more! And in Steep and Thorny tradition, come down in costume celebrating resurrection of any kind and we’ll even give you a special treat at the door. Performers: PDX Broadsides, Jacki Ward, Myrrh Larsen, Speculative Drama, Lacy Knightly, and more to be announced!MC: Megan Skye HaleProducers: The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, Misfit Academy (501(c)(3)) Tickets$32 General Admission$49 Preferred Seating (first three rows of center section) $100 High Flyer (preferred seating for aerial performances plus VIP door gift and a piece of The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven)21 & over only Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
