Dani Baldwin forges her own path
Bobby Bermea
October 23, 2019
As her mentor Stan Foote retires, Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Baldwin commits to her Young Professionals.
As her mentor Stan Foote retires, Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Baldwin commits to her Young Professionals.
An interview with Justin Zimmerman of the McMinnville Short Film Festival.
The drawings and paintings of Roger Kukes brim with intertwining images and stories.
A collaboration of artists and inmates gives lively, often funny voice to the view from inside the walls.
“Women of Will,” a season-highlight at Portland Playhouse, charts Shakespeare’s growth through his female characters.
Third Angle welcomes Oregonian composers home. Creative Music Guild improvises.
In the Northwest, images of horror and hope – plus a West Side story and a divine voice.
Stumptown Stages’ energetic production of “West Side Story” makes some missteps but still has the moves.
Lincoln City seeks public art; Sitka Center holds a fundraiser; Floyd Skloot reads from his new book.
It’s a busy month in Yamhill County: art openings, author readings, theater, and music.
Anne Sofie von Otter and Kristian Bezuidenhout show Portland how it’s done.
White Bird Dance’s first foray into contemporary German choreography runs into a vast wall. Sasha Waltz’s ‘KÖRPER’ examines the bodies that crash into it.
A fresh look at “A View From the Bridge” highlights a busy theater week, along with musicals, Greek epics and scary Halloween treats.
Composer Andy Akiho and percussionist Colin Currie chat about ceramic bowls and meaty marimba.
From Scheharazade spinning stories to a 6-year-old spinning a galaxy, a whirl of Oregon creative life.
We stumble upon a Hall of Fame inductee, learn about joiking and konnakol, and hear from the audients.
Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. and a 6-year-old boy collaborate on a Newberg installation.
Oregon Ballet Theatre lights the fireworks with Forsythe, Balanchine, and the dazzling return of “Scheherazade.”
Lincoln City’s Bijou Theatre hosts the six-day Oregon-Made Film Festival.
Wondrous music tempers an overstuffed story in Broadway Rose’s “Once.”
A new work by circus duo Kate Law and Amaya Alvarado reveals great skill—and a story of a sexual assault.
Sebastian Zinn discusses Jo Hamilton’s new mural at SE 56th and Foster.
Shaking the Tree’s ravishing new version of Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy ripples nervously down the centuries.
A Delgani String Quartet concert featuring living local composers raises questions of tradition and timeliness.
Tragedy strikes Center Stage (that’s a good thing), Broadway Rose sells out, Shaking the Tree goes Greek.
Same old story? Brash new wave? In Oregon this week, old and new and always mix it up.
The weekly paper and its vendor-poets celebrate 20 years as beacons of advocacy for the city’s homeless.
It’s fundraising season at the beach, with performances ranging from fingerstyle guitar to sea shanties.
Ním Wunnan’s October art picks, from the Chinese Garden to the High Desert Museum.
Warm up your fall with saxophones, film and classical music, international virtuosi, and metallized Metroids.
Dance to haunt the senses and call on spirits, from OBT to White Bird and beyond—way beyond.
Samuel Hobbs’ Union PDX dance festival: showcasing dance, confront the problems it faces in Portland.
Linda Wysong dives deep into Eiko Otake’s TBA offerings and a show of her work at PNCA through Oct. 24.
Besides Art Harvest, shows explore fiber art, and prints about the political/cultural moment.
The company kicks off its 16th season with works by a trio of European choreographers.
This is what we fear…Nothing to think withNothing to love or link with From “Aubade” by Philip Larkin, excerpted in Shadow & Light. When Eugene Concert Choir and Vocal Arts director Diane Retallack approached Joan Szymko in 2014 to write a new
“The Wolves” highlights a theater week that also includes the Mueller Report on stage and a Vertigo dark comedy.
Composer Oscar Bettison talks about making cool music and helping the Oregon Symphony kick off its season.
The mirror crack’d: Art ripped from the anxieties and tensions of an unruly world at large.
“The David Lynch of Portland theater” strikes up its 22nd season with a broodingly funny world premiere.
A few friends drop by to tell tales at the Waterstone Gallery artist’s show “Things That Don’t Float.”
Monica Setziol-Phillips’ art is installed at Salishan, within steps of work by her famous woodcarver father.
In Seattle, Yussef El-Guindi sets off an uncivil war in his new play “People of the Book.”
The Portland2019 Biennial at Disjecta offers a survey of socially and politically engaged local art.
Union PDX – Festival:19 is a new dance festival, started by Samuel Hobbs, that attempts to address some of the problems in the city’s dance community.
K.B. Dixon begins a new series of artist portraits, starting with the writers.
Author JB Fisher discusses the 61-year-old mystery of what happened to the Martin family of Portland.
Corrib looks at a “medieval” Irish scandal; Triangle makes a Darcelle musical; a pirate for the kids.
Julia Bradshaw’s “Survey” at the Truckenbrod Pop-Up Gallery in Corvallis investigates imaginary planets through a pinhole camera.
Autumn settles in swiftly across Oregon, and with it the rhythms of a new cultural season.
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