Nowhere
2026-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith (James Duval), his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they’ll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

Director: Gregg Araki
Year: 1997
Country: United States
Runtime: 82 minutes

Paris is Burning
2026-06-19 19:00 - 21:00
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seven years, the film is an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

Special encore screening of Pearson Kunz’s latest short Blossoms (19 minutes) before the feature.

Director: Jennie Livingston
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Runtime: 78 minutes

Stranger by the Lake
2026-06-18 19:00 - 21:00
Franck spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.

Presented by Queer Screams Film Festival, returning to The Clinton Street Theater in August 2026!

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Year: 2013
Country: France
Runtime: 100 minutes

IT IS BETTER TO BE WEALTHY & HEALTHY THAN POOR & ILL (1992) (Church of Film)
2026-06-17 19:00 - 21:00
Nona is a Slovak photojournalist and dissident, Ester is a Czech nurse and the mistress of a politician. When the Velvet Revolution splits the country and brings capitalism, the two women hit hard times and move in together. They try out everything from erotic photography to robbery, trying to stay afloat in their hardluck world—and the men aren’t helping. IT IS BETTER TO BE WEALTHY & HEALTHY THAN POOR & ILL is Juraj Jakubisko’s madcap, Magic Realist statement on the Velvet Revolution; a hilarious, bittersweet, joyous and tragic circus of two girlfriends Bonnie and Clyding their way in a race to the bottom.

Shoot the People
2026-06-16 19:00 - 21:00
Special sneak preview before the film opens nationwide!

A new documentary following Misan Harriman’s journey photographing global protest movements that drive social change. Renowned for his wide-ranging work—including powerful breakthrough images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and capturing the Palestinian liberation movement on film—Harriman also made history as the first Black man to photograph a British Vogue cover.

The film follows Harriman as he highlights the resilience of grassroots activists fighting for equality, civil rights, and social justice, the film showcases the intersectionality of these movements and their collective power. With historical context, interviews with activists, and explorations of digital activism, the documentary reveals how Harriman’s lens brings the world’s activism to light, inspiring viewers to recognize their own power in shaping a more just society.

Director: Andy Mundy-Castle
Year: 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 90 minutes

A Blackbox Story: The Birth of Contemporary Art Horror
2026-06-15 18:30 - 20:30
Doors @ 6:00 PM

A Black Box Story is a psychological thriller short film in the new genre of contemporary art horror that explores the thin, often violent line between artistic dedication and total madness.

The story follows Valen (Joachim Moore), adisplaced and traumatized man who lives secretly within the rafters of a black-box theater. Having fled a dark past involving the death of his parents, Valen considers the stage a sacred sanctuary. His peace is interrupted by Mark (Checko Valenti), an aspiring but mediocre actor who rents the space to rehearse Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

This event will include a 30 minute lecture before the film, and a post-screening Q&A with Joachim Moore.

Desert Hearts
2026-06-14 19:00 - 21:00
Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against the breathtaking desert landscape.

With smoldering chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.

Director: Donna Deitch
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Runtime: 96 minutes

The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Sinophelia
2026-06-13 23:00 - 23:59
Come watch our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie that has played weekly at the Clinton Street Theater since 1978 with everyone’s ancient royal vampire, Thee Countess Sinophelia!

Enjoy the legendary “bad” movie with props and callbacks, but without all the theatrics of a shadow cast on stage. Perfect for first and old timers. If you love the film on its own, these screenings are an opportunity to watch the film with less visual interruption.

*Please note this screening does not include a performance or shadow cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret.*

Director: Jim Sharman

Country: USA

Year: 1975

Runtime: 100 minutes

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2026-06-13 19:00 - 21:00
John Cameron Mitchell’s musical extravaganza featuring a live shadowcast with members of the Clinton Street Cabaret!

A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Runtime: 92 minutes

SORIAH and Scot Jenerik
2026-06-12 20:00 - 22:00
Internationally-acclaimed throat singer, musician, and ritual artist SORIAH returns to the theater for a very special live performance! Generating experimental soundscapes where ancient traditions of Khöömei (Tuvan Throat Singing) are revealed through the lens of modern experience. Live cymatics provided by Eric Buchner.

Opening the evening is composer and conceptual artist Scot Jenerik and a set by XRAY FM’s DDDJJJ666 and DJ Magnolia Bouvier.

Doors open at 7:30 PM; performance at 8:00 PM.

All ages welcome.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
2026-06-11 19:00 - 21:30
Bella (Kristen Stewart) awakes—as a vampire—from her life-threatening labor, and her newborn daughter, Renesmee, proves to be very special indeed. While Bella adjusts to her new state of being, Renesmee experiences accelerated growth. When the Volturi learn of the baby’s existence, they declare her to be an abomination and sentence the Cullens to death. Bella, Edward (Robert Pattinson) and the rest of the clan seek help from allies around the world to protect their family.

Watch Twilight Again, organized by Blue Holgate and Jenna Vesper, brings the Twilight Saga back to theaters in Portland, OR. These two besties and lifelong Twilight enthusiasts wanted to watch the movies, again, on the big screen…with you!

Get your tickets now to these dazzling fandom events at the historic Clinton Street Theater, so you can shout iconic lines, sing along to the unforgettable soundtrack, play some trivia, and come dressed as your favorite characters for a chance to win exciting raffle prizes! Embrace your inner Twihard and connect with other fans who share the obsession with sparkly vampires, teen wolves, and father figure doctors. We promise we don’t care what team you’re on.

Director: Bill Condon
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Runtime: 115 minutes

THE TRAP (1970) (Church of Film)
2026-06-10 19:00 - 21:00
Arsene is a young man obsessed with being robbed, so he sets traps in his crumbling mansion. He lures a pair of kleptomaniac young women (counterculture icons Bulle Ogier and Bernadette Lafont) inside as a test, but unwittingly becomes the agent of his own destruction. Jacques Baratier’s THE TRAP is a strange and chaotic piece of cinema from the Zanzibar Group, a radical film collective that emerged from the revolutionary zeal of May’68. A nightmarish Daisies that prefigures France’s growing, punk-inflected feminist culture, it also features an experimental score by François Tusques and an appearance by surrealist Fernando Arrabal. This will be screened with Diourka Medveczky’s JEANNE AND THE MOTORBIKE, as it was in its original release.

The Strike
2026-06-09 19:00 - 21:00
Join OJRC to witness a story of the power of protest led by people in prison. Weaving together testimonies from hunger strikers as well gaining unprecedented access to state prison officials and never-before-seen footage from inside Pelican Bay prison in Northern California, this documentary goes beyond simply making a case against solitary confinement and illuminates how prisoner-led resistance grew from a whisper inside the halls of Pelican Bay to a colossal feat across California prisons that involved 30,000 incarcerated people.

Director: Lucas Guilkey, JoeBill Muñoz
Year: 2024
Country: United States
Runtime: 86 minutes

The Serpent's Skin
2026-06-08 19:00 - 21:00
Portland premiere! After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen’s tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.

Director: Alice Maio Mackay
Year: 2025
Country: Australia
Runtime: 83 minutes

Portland Horror Film Festival™ - CLOSING DAY HORRORS + SHORTS GONE WILD
2026-06-07 12:00 - 21:30
The Final day of horrors is a shortstravaganza! THREE short film blocks round out our ginormous 2026 short film offerings, and TWO feature films. End the night with our notorious SHORTS GONE WILD block to cap off the weekend in the most wacky, bloody, hilarious way possible! To learn more about the festival, see the film list, and schedule visit the festival website.

Sunday, June 7th, 12-9:30 pm

12:00 pm Short Horror Films block 5 w/Q&A

2:00 pm Shorts + WORLD PREMIERE feature: DRACULA THE NIGHT AROUND US, A disillusioned man is hunted by an evil force that thrives on his destruction., dir. by Chris Schwab

BREAK

5:00 pm Short Horror Films block 6 w/Q&A

6:45 pm PNW Premiere Feature: THE INVISIBLE HALF (JP), Half-Japanese high schooler Elena realizes she’s being watched by something unseen—a monster visible only through her phone. dir. by Masaki Nishiyama

8:30 pm Shorts Gone Wild! Our infamous festival-ending block of the most wacky, bloody, hilarious short films

9:30 pm Awards Presentation/After party at Dots Cafe

Go HERE to get the Full Festival pass which includes all shows at the Clinton Street Theater and the Hollywood Theatre!

*This is a horror film festival. While the films are unrated, some are the equivalent of an R rating and may include violence, sexuality, nudity, and gore. Minors should be accompanied by an adult.t.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret
2026-06-06 22:30 - 23:59
Doors open at 10:00 PM; pre-show starts at 10:30 PM

Join our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978! Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) continues to titillate and delight audiences all over the world.

Tonight’s screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! $2 from every ticket goes to support the group. Come see the famous, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.

Director: Jim Sharman

Country: USA

Year: 1975

Runtime: 100 minutes

Starting March 16th of 2024 the CSC will have a selection of tickets for each show which are available to our BIPOC community members FREE of charge!

To reserve one send an email to the Clinton Street Cabaret clintonstreetec@gmail.com with the heading BIPOC Affinity Ticket and include your name and the date of the show you would like to reserve a ticket for in the body of the email. Only 1 ticket can be reserved per person per show and reserved tickets also include a prop bag. These tickets can only be reserved by confirmed email with the Clinton Street Cabaret and are not available to reserve at the Clinton Street Theater box office.

Tickets can be reserved starting 2 weeks before a show and no later than 2 hours before the show. Please note we won’t be able to accommodate late requests for shows that are already sold out. These are tickets specifically for the Clinton Street Cabaret’s performances of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Clinton Street Theater, on the 1st, 3rd, and occasionally 5th Saturdays of the month.

Showings on 2nd and 4th Saturdays or “For Virgins” nights are not Cabaret shows and do not qualify for this program.

Portland Horror Film Festival™ - ALL DAY HORROR MARATHON
2026-06-06 12:00 - 21:00
Join us for our big Saturday Horror Extravaganza with THREE feature films and TWO blocks of short films from around the world! To learn more about the festival, see the film list, and schedule visit the festival website.

Saturday, June 6th, 12-9:00 pm

12 pm Feature Presentation TBA

1:40 pm Women in Horror, Short Films block 3 w/Q&A

3:30 pm WORLD PREMIERE Feature: SITRA ACHRA – A retro game collector loses his grip on reality after discovering an occult-obsessed developer’s cursed final creation. Dir by Levi Buchanan

BREAK

5:40 pm Short Horror Films block 4 w/Q&A

7:00 pm PNW Feature: BIG BABY – A horror screenwriter’s violent new creation—a hulking killer called “Big Baby”—begins bleeding from the page into real life, dir. by Spider One

9:00 pm After Party at Dots Cafe! (drink specials, great food!) Get a team together and compete in the Horror Movie Greenlight Pitch with The Scariest Things Podcast!

Go HERE to get the Full Festival pass which includes all shows at the Clinton Street Theater and the Hollywood Theatre!

*This is a horror film festival. While the films are unrated, some are the equivalent of an R rating and may include violence, sexuality, nudity, and gore. Minors should be accompanied by an adult.

Twin Peaks Season 2: Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2026-06-05 17:00 - 23:30
Featuring special guest Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan) in person!Joins us for the complete Twin Peaks series on the big screen for the first time in history! We continue our year-long celebration of the greatest TV show of all time with the start of Season Two, including episodes “May the Giant Be with You,” “Coma,” “The Man Behind the Glass,” “Laura’s Secret Diary,” and “The Orchid’s Curse.”

Prizes, surprises, and breaks in between episodes so you can refuel.

Best of SECS Fest
2026-06-04 19:00 - 21:00
Making a special trip down to Portland, The Best of SECS Fest is a sex-positive international film festival celebrating the artistry of erotic cinema while inspiring diverse communities to engage in adult conversations about sex.

Featuring a variety of kinky queer shorts from around the world, this event is explicitly 21+ only.

Who's on Top?
2026-06-02 19:00 - 21:00
Montucky Cold Snacks presents a $5 movie night! Special drink and popcorn combo discount available at the show.A documentary about summitting Mt. Hood features emotional stories of members of the LGBTQ community, who challenge stereotypes about gender and sexuality and demonstrate their diverse journeys in overcoming physical and figurative mountains. Narrated by George Takei.

Director: Devin Fei-Fan Tau
Year: 2020
Country: United States
Runtime: 77 minutes

Poison
2026-06-01 19:00 - 21:00
Todd Hayne’s (Carol, Velvet Goldmine) debut feature.

A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.

Special encore screening of Thom Hilton’s latest short Waking Up From A Nap On A Long Day Of Doing Nothing (29 minutes) before the feature.

Director: Todd Haynes
Year: 1991
Country: United States
Runtime: 85 minutes

Melange: A Queer and P.O.C. Variety Show
2026-05-31 18:00 - 21:00
21+

MAY we kick off pre summer with some HEAT!?!??

Hosted By:

Chakra Stone Smokez

Starring:

Bevin Victoria

Flor Slivestre

Luz De La Concha

Minsmonsta

Celebrate with us at our home venue, THE CLINTON STREET THEATER!!!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Riff Raff's Street Rats
2026-05-30 23:00 - 23:59
Doors open at 10:00 PM on Saturday for the 11:00 PM show.

Join our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978! Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) continues to titillate and delight audiences all over the world.

Tonight’s screening features a special visiting cast Riff Raff’s Street Rats from Bremerton, WA! $2 from every ticket goes to support the group. Come see the famous, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.

Director: Jim Sharman

Country: USA

Year: 1975

Runtime: 100 minutes

40 Years of Fuckin' Up
2026-05-30 19:00 - 21:00
A documentary detailing the storied history of drug-addled teen punks-turned-icons.

Featuring interviews with Fat Mike, Eric Melvin, Aaron ‘El Hefe’ Abeyta, and Erik Sandin.

Doors open at 6:30 PM. Film at 7:00 PM.

Director: James Buddy Day
Year: 2026
Country: United States
Runtime: 120 minutes

Psychic Standup with Karen Rontowski
2026-05-29 19:30 - 21:00
Psychic Standup is a show unlike any other. Karen Rontowski combines her 35 years as a standup comic with her 25 years of tarot reading and the results are predictably hilarious!

Karen has two DryBar Comedy Specials that currently have over 30 million views and has been seen on the Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central, Comics Unleashed, ComedyDotCom as well as Sirius XM Radio.

The show consists of 30-40 minutes of standup and then Karen pulls out the Tarot Cards and takes questions from the crowd. Her incredible improv skills keep the crowd entertained whether they are believers or not. There is something for the serious psychic patron as well as the serious skeptic. Every show is unique and the future never looked so funny. You don’t have to believe or even be open minded, you just have to be ready to laugh.

Real tarot, real funny.

This event is for mature audiences only.

Doors open at 7:00 PM.

16mm Nyback Showdown
2026-05-28 19:00 - 21:00
IT’S SURREALIST MAY AND THE NYBACK SHOWDOWN IS THROWING DOWN SOME OF THE WEIRDEST 16MM SHORTS IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE TO CELEBRATE!

Whether it be Eastern Bloc animations about non-conformity or live-action fever dreams involving furniture, the NYBACK ARCHIVE team will be slinging all things surreal and bizarre in a knock-down, dragout festival of the obscure, obtuse and oblong!

Watch as two 16mm programming teams (DARKROOM ASSOCIATES and ASTRAL PROJECTIONS) fire up their projectors and trade cinematic jabs back and forth by screening selections from the world-famous DENNIS NYBACK 16mm film archive! No one knows what will be screened next – cartoons, music, educational films, documentary shorts and weird advertisements run amok! There are no rules, no prisoners, and no show is the same! A one-of-a-kind film free-for-all that will amuse, confuse and contuse your cinematic soul!

DENNIS NYBACK (1953-2022) was the former owner of the Clinton St. Theater (among many theaters) and an internationally renowned film curator and programmer. Over his 40 year career he amassed one of the most unique and rare film collections in the United States, an archive he regularly would draw from to create one-of-a-kind film programs that screened in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. We celebrate Dennis’ legacy by doing what he did best; putting on a show and sharing some of the coolest unseen cinema projected on 16mm film!

FEATURED PROJECTIONISTS: DARKROOM ASSOCIATES – aka GREG HAMILTON – a 20-year Portland film programming veteran known for the 16mm PSYCHOTRONIC AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL and TRAILERMANIA series at the Hollywood and Clinton St. Theater.

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS – aka GARRETT and IOANA– known for their multifaceted 16mm programs, including CELLULOID JUKEBOX at the Hollywood and Clinton St, Theater.

FEMMES FEMMES (1974) (Church of Film)
2026-05-27 19:00 - 21:00
Two aging actresses share an apartment in Paris, and a life. Retreating into champagne and fantasies, using the trade of theatre to dress a slowly unraveling existence, they try on feminine roles, and revisit the ones that have failed them. Paul Vecchiali’s FEMMES FEMMES is a masterpiece of 70s gay whimsy and despair, a madcap and at times delirious spinout to the bottom and back, and to the bottom again. It’s also a musical, when it wants to be!

The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents: New Indigenous Films
2026-05-26 19:00 - 21:00
A showcase of films from this year’s Indigenous Voices series, which centers the wisdom, accomplishments, stories, and struggles of Indigenous people around the living world. Films include: LANAWARU (2024), OCEANBONE (2025), RED-SHADED GREEN (2025), and THE RIVER REMEMBERS (2025.)Learn more about each of the short films and the Portland EcoFilm Festival at: portlandecofilmfest.org

The Holidays Ten Minute Play Festival
2026-05-24 19:00 - 21:00
Doors at 6:30 PM; show at 7:00 PM.Since 2011, the Portland 10MPF is an event Monkey With a Hat On produces 2-3 times a year. The Festival features new plays written, directed and performed by Portland artists – with a live musical act in between each play. Every play is ten minutes or less and every festival features a new theme.

The theme for our 35th 10MPF is… Holidays!

Every night will feature all six of the Holidays-themed plays produced in this festival – so enjoy all of the acts and music on any of the four performance nights. The 10MPF is a very fun, well-attended event, and there is nothing else like it in the city! In the Holidays Ten Minute Play Festival you will experience:

The Easter Bunny and a Leprechaun fighting for their lives

A New Years Eve party in a bunker at the end of the world

Internet lovers meeting for the first time on Valentine’s Day

A bright-eyed employee’s first day at the “Holiday Factory”

Freddy Krueger and Pinhead’s first Christmas with their son

Father’s Day with “Rent-A-Dad”

This play festival will feature music from the awesome local musical act, Junglecorp, with their new Holidays-themed musical story performed in between each of the plays! Junglecorp leaves the audience thoroughly entertained and they are excited to be a part of the 34th 10MPF. Check out Junglecorp’s music from previous play festivals and fun videos, and connect with them at junglecorp.org

Runtime: ~2 hours (with a 15 minute intermission)

All Ages; however there will be some F-bombs and adult themes.

The Ten Minute Play Festival is theater for everybody. MWAHO will never turn away audience members for lack of funds, and they have an open door policy where anyone can attend their writers workshops, submit a play or try out to be involved. These are your stories, Portland!

***We will not turn away anyone for lack of funds. For more information on how to pick up free or subsidized tickets, please contact ollie@monkeywithahaton.com***

Join us this Spring for the epic compilation of Portland’s Holidays plays!

For more information about MWAHO and the 10MPF, go to www.monkeywithahaton.com

The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Thom Hilton
2026-05-23 23:00 - 23:59
Come watch our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie that has played weekly at the Clinton Street Theater since 1978.

If you’ve ever wanted to attend, but didn’t know if you’d enjoy your first time, our special host for this evening, Thom Hilton, will be your guide. You’ll learn the funniest callbacks, proper prop timing, and how to dance the Time Warp.

Enjoy the legendary “bad” movie with props and callbacks, but without all the theatrics of a shadow cast on stage. Perfect for first and old timers. If you love the film on its own, these screenings are an opportunity to watch the film with less visual interruption.

*Please note this screening does not include a performance or shadow cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret.*

Director: Jim Sharman

Country: USA

Year: 1975

Runtime: 100 minutes
