DramaWatch: “James X” marks the spot
Marty Hughley
February 29, 2020
Darius Pierce nails it in a riveting play for Corrib Theatre. Plus: new awards, hires, seasons, and shows.
Darius Pierce nails it in a riveting play for Corrib Theatre. Plus: new awards, hires, seasons, and shows.
Notes for an extra day: A weekend of concerts and a Portland Weird undectet.
Oregon’s dance month marches in like a lion, a tango, ballet, butoh, funk, fish, bootleggers and more.
Ten portraits in black and white by K.B. Dixon of Oregon artists making their mark on the world.
A song-and-dance jaunt into Mowgli’s jungle and a musical Paradise, plus a week’s worth of good reading.
In E.M. Lewis’s newest play and several others at the new-works fest, the key question is “talking it thru.”
Talking with “triple threat” Caroline Shaw, in town to perform her own music with Third Angle New Music.
Wine country calendar: A little of everything at Linfield, new shows in Newberg, and Salem goes steampunk.
Fast break: PSU brings a choral music “rock star” and 500 singers to its campus basketball arena.
Young filmmakers, stories inspired by Cinderella and Dr. Suess, and a documentary about Anne Frank.
“An American Quartet” of short comic operas? Yes, indeed, thank you very much.
Looking back on Portland’s new-works festival: Tom McCall, the Roosevelts, & MLK Jr., too.
Two women, in love — kissing even! “Indecent,” “Pipeline,” measuring “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Fear, intimacy, and absurdity collide in CoHo’s “The Found Dog Ribbon Dance.”
Pioneering contemporary classical composer Terry Riley brings his jazz chops to town.
Leanne Grabel and Breads & Roses, FisherPoets and the song of the sea. Plus dance, drama, sight, sound.
An Oregon lineup that mines the meanings of “Americana” and “world music.”
Sebastian Zinn considers the work and goals of designers at the fun and fanciful fashion collective on East Burnside.
From horse-racing to Newberg’s 99W drive-in, there’s a lot to like in this weekend’s McMinnville Short Film Festival.
Short takes: Clowns Without Borders, Film Fest gala, Sleeping Beauty, Volcano & Colescott, Tanya Barfield.
Commercial fishermen will share poems, stories, and songs during the 23rd annual FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria.
Within the joy of Darvejon Jones’ dances at BodyVox is also the shadow of his social commentary.
Will Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” do justice to Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance”?
“She’s crazy. Always has been. Always will be.” Imago’s “Special K” drinks deep of theatrical madness.
Lighting up the galleries, scratching out arts funding, experimenting with learning, sussing “world music.”
Not “outside”: Portland Art and Learning Studio artists create an exhilarating exhibit at Gallery 114.
Laura Onizuka will teach the Spanish dance and art form at an upcoming Lincoln City retreat.
The Yamhill County calendar also includes new gallery shows and jazz by the Christopher Brown Quartet.
Matthew Neil Andrews thinks about the phantom zone of “world music” and what it really means.
Portland’s Wayfinding Adademy and Alder Commons move arts education to the center of their approach.
A gathering of Native American activists and a documentary film join the battle against climate threats.
Laurel Reed Pavic hits the First Thursday gallery shows and breaks out of the the post-twinkle winter slump.
Clown CoHort cavorts through Romanticism’s fertile ground; openings & closings dot the theater calendar.
A working-class ‘Tightrope,’ combative plays, Southern rites: America goes to battle with itself.
Matthew Neil Andrews spots composers everywhere, and a jazz festival, too.
Photographer Gillian Laub’s probing of the persistence of racial attitudes is visual activism at its best.
Pacific Story Slam continues, chanteuse Lady Rizo visits, and theatrical comedies offer Elvis and old folks.
Baritone Christòpheren Nomura’s “deeply moving” performance in Ashland’s Heart of Humanity series.
Martha Daghlian shines some light on gallery shows to get out and see in February.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn will talk about their book, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.”
Finding the warp and weft of things in Amanda Triplett’s studio and a trip to the Portland Art Museum.
The internationally prominent violinist, who’s led Portland Baroque Orchestra for 26 years, will retire in 2021.
Triple Candie’s odd but effective retrospective of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts at the Portland Art Museum.
Eugene Ballet creates the new dance “The Large Rock and The Little Yew” and revives “Alice in Wonderland.”
All you need is love: Oregon’s February dance calendar reflects on the many ways humans love.
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