Isaac Thompson discusses a concert switch from Mondays to Thursdays and revitalizing downtown in a 2025-26 season that starts with violin superstar Joshua Bell and ends with a percussive bang.
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The museum will unveil its $111 million renovation and its new Rothko Pavilion with a four-day free celebration and a rethinking of how it displays its art.
March 19, 2025Bob Hicks
News & Notes: Also, Cultural Trust tax credit nets $5.2 million; Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center grants; Broadway in Portland announces new season.
March 15, 2025Brett Campbell
Happenings in Oregon classical music, including news about a nationally acclaimed Oregon radio station, a rising young Oregon musician, a new orchestra leader in Eugene, the impending end of a couple of beloved musical traditions, and more.
March 20, 2025Lynn Darroch
A local hero celebrates 40 years as a leader with a concert featuring guest artists from throughout his career.
March 19, 2025Daryl Browne
From Bach Cantata Choirs “kinda-sorta Lenten concert” and Couperin’s “Ténèbrae” with In Mulieribus to Portland Gay Men’s Chorus in collaboration with Portland Lesbian Choir and Bridging Voices.
The retiree, whose resume also includes work as a geneticist and engineer, is one of three artists in a new venture: Little Art Museums of Yachats.
March 20, 2025Bob Hicks
March 18, 2025Lori Tobias
The three-day festival in April offers 10 workshops on a range of paper arts — and the opportunity for bookmaking friends to reconnect.
Portland Center Stage presents a stirring production of "The Light." Fuse prepares "Great White Goes Down" for Fertile Ground. Twilight chronicles the beginnings of gay activism with "The Temperamentals." Plus more openings and continuing shows.
March 14, 2025Jim Flint
Kenerly, a 26-year veteran of the Ashland festival who has starred in other works by the great American playwright, digs into Wilson's world of "Jitney" as the season begins.
March 13, 2025Darleen Ortega
Edward Albee's 1960s masterwork of two toxic marriages gets a bold and skillful new performance. Sixty years later, does its evening of drink and destruction still sting?
Also this week: a strange dystopia in "The Assessment," plus the sci-fi flick "Ash" and the baseball film "Eephus."
March 15, 2025Marc Mohan
The analog film collection of the late Dennis Nyback moves to the basement of a Southeast Portland community center, where a crew of dedicated cinephiles takes on the monumental task of cataloguing its over 5,000 titles.
March 13, 2025Marc Mohan
An uneventful week for new releases is led by two star-studded but pointless comedies, but a Blu-ray collection of unheralded films noir from Kino Lorber offers a silver lining.
At Performance Works Northwest, three dancers, a rush of words, a flight of balloons, and a beautiful straddling of metaphoric balance between fantasy and reality.
March 1, 2025Martha Ullman West
A new film delves into the life and continuing inspiration of the international modern dance pioneer and co-founder of the Columbia Gorge's Maryhill Museum of Art.
February 27, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
March is rich with dance you can sink your teeth into, from a dance film festival to South Korean and Palestinian performances, a dance take on "Hedda Gabler" and more.
March 13, 2025Karen Pate
The award, to be given in mid-April, recognizes a mid-career fiction writer of “national consequence.” Vlautin calls the nomination a lucky break.
March 12, 2025Lori Tobias
The nonprofit sponsors this week’s comedy festival and Get Lit at the Beach in April, as well as an autumn celebration of Indigenous heritage, art classes, concerts in the park, and a mini-golf fundraiser.
March 17, 2025Friderike Heuer
At Art at the Cave gallery in Vancouver, Wash., the work of Ceija Stoika is haunted by harsh realities: "I fear that Europe is forgetting its past and that Auschwitz is only asleep."
March 16, 2025Daryl Browne
Test your knowledge of some of the world's greatest conductors in this musical March crossword puzzle.
