Credit: Owen Carey

An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare

Northwest / Nob Hill

When

Nov. 4–22, 2026

Every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.–10 p.m.

Where

CoHo Theatre

2257 Northwest Raleigh Street
Portland, OR, 97210

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

An empty space. Enter the Poet. He has a story to tell—one he’s been telling for thousands of years, drifting through countless taverns and across countless stages. He invokes the Muses and fills the empty space with a tale at once grandly mythical and strikingly familiar.

Is this a story of antiquity or a story of today?

Told entirely by two performers, a poet and a musician, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s An Iliad remixes Homer’s tale, bridging the ancient with the contemporary. In turns humorous and tender, violent and harrowing, An Iliad is a vital examination of the human compulsion towards war, a passionate interrogation of the toll war has on our humanity, and a testament to the power and potential of storytelling.

“An Iliad is pure theater: shocking, glorious, primal and deeply satisfying.”—Time Out New York