David Danzmayr’s inaugural in-person season opens with Mahler, Bunch, Gabriela Lena Frank, and the massive “Constellation” sound system; Open Music finally commences at The Old Church
Season opening concerts October 23rd and 24th feature music of Aaron Copland, Stacey Philipps, Morten Lauridsen, Naomi LaViolette, Carlos Guastavino, Matthew Lyon Hazzard, Santiago Veros, and Kim Andre Arnesen
Wes Anderson’s “Dispatch” is about as Wes Anderson as a movie can be. And Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the Victorian polymath Wain, an artist who paints psychedelic cats.
Longtime Portland sculptor Michihiro Kosuge, philanthropist and friend to artists Debi Coleman, and youth music leader Ian Mouser have died. In their productive lives they helped make Portland a better place.
Back in the theater for the first time since February 2020, the company shows fine form in a program highlighted by Balanchine’s classic “Four Temperaments.”
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
A fortuitous partnership results in “a brilliant LP that calls to mind the mood of vintage alt-country classics.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
José González and Dañel Malán lead the resurgence of the Northwest’s only Latinx theater company.
Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik’s experimental performance “apogee” explores themes of nature and intuition.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
Vanessa Severo talks about “becoming” the famed Mexican artist; Martha Washington bakes again.
Ridley Scott directs a Rashomon-like 14th century tale; marriage neo-Bergman style; a soccer team’s rescue.
A tale of time: The Oregon composer gave herself 10 years to decide if she was good at this. She is.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
The ballet company, disrupted by Covid and an abrupt change in leadership, opens a new season on Friday.
Niki Price of the Lincoln City Cultural Center is hiking the Coast to raise money for the center and awareness of public art.
Eyelids release a live album; Sour Deez, Wavy Josef, MadgesdiqCEG, and Hinnessy Da Goon at The Thesis.
On Stage & Studio, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with perhaps the most influential benefactor of Oregon arts.
An exhibit at Linfield Gallery raises deep and abiding questions about social values and the meanings of art.
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