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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,’ ‘Magazine Dreams,’ and more

March 20, 2025Marc Mohan

Also this week: a strange dystopia in "The Assessment," plus the sci-fi flick "Ash" and the baseball film "Eephus."

Portland Art Museum sets the date: After 9 years, transformed campus to open Nov. 20

March 20, 2025Bob Hicks

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.

It’s a family affair: The Norman Sylvester Band at Alberta Rose Theatre

March 20, 2025Lynn Darroch

A local hero celebrates 40 years as a leader with a concert featuring guest artists from throughout his career.

Sale of federal buildings across nation imperils U.S. public’s vast art collection

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.

Consistency and nuance, solidity and lightness, strength and suppleness: Choirs welcome the spring

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.

For three decades, Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival has been doing things by the book

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.

DramaWatch: A bevy of absorbing and socially significant shows

March 18, 2025Linda Ferguson

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.

Dancing in the gaps: Vijay Gupta with 45th Parallel Universe

March 18, 2025Charles Rose

The violinist joined Pyxis Quartet for a concert centered on Osvaldo Golijov’s somber “Tenebrae”

‘Seeking Warmth’: A Romani artist who survived the Holocaust paints memories gentle and harsh

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."

PuzzleWatch: Electrifying Conductors

March 16, 2025Daryl Browne

Test your knowledge of some of the world's greatest conductors in this musical March crossword puzzle.

Keeping it reel: The Nyback film archive finds a new home and a community of caretakers

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.

Music news & notes: March 2025

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.

Susan Seubert’s ‘Fragile Beauty’: Icebergs and the passage of time

March 15, 2025Brian Libby

The Portland photographer has led a dual career, traveling the world as a photojournalist and showing fine art in museums and galleries. At PDX Contemporary Art, her new iceberg show brings the two together.

August Wilson & Kevin Kenerly help kick off Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 90th season

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.

You belong somewhere you feel free: Music in Our Schools month promotes music education and personal development

March 13, 2025Daryl Browne

The 40th anniversary of the National Association for Music Education’s annual celebration finds Oregon choirs, orchestras, arts organizations and schools embracing this year’s MIOS theme, “United Through Music.”

Oregon author Willy Vlautin is a finalist for the $50,000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize from the New Literary Project

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.

FilmWatch Weekly: Lame comedies ‘Opus’ and ‘The Parenting’ lead a lackluster week

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.

Center Stage’s searing ‘Virginia Woolf’: Why now?

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?

April Waters’ ‘Sheroes,’ big and bold

March 13, 2025Dee Moore

The Salem artist's giant portraits of activist women including Dr. Helen Caldicott and water rights advocate Maud Barlow stare forthrightly out of their frames.

Tolovana Arts Colony: Nurturing the Cannon Beach arts scene for 20 years

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.

The darkness is part of the beauty: Discussing Shostakovich with Dr. Terry Klefstad ahead of the Jerusalem Quartet’s upcoming performances

March 12, 2025Alice Hardesty

Dr. Klefstad will discuss Shostakovich’s life and music at a series of lectures and discussions throughout this month's Friends of Chamber Music festival of the Soviet composer’s fifteen string quartets.

Sharing stories and images of war-ravaged Ukraine

March 12, 2025Jim Flint

Ashland photographer Christopher Briscoe will talk of his experiences and his new book, "The Women of Ukraine," at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting March 18 in Medford.

In Seattle, a ‘Magic Flute’ with bells and whistles

March 11, 2025Angela Allen

Mozart's marvelous, 233-year-old fantasy gets a colorful and brightly animated contemporary update at Seattle Opera.

Cappella Romana’s mix of Orthodox and Gospel music creates a resounding cantata

March 11, 2025James Bash

The choir's "Canon for Racial Recognition" entered fascinating musical and cultural territory with its deft blend of sounds from different yet complementary traditions.

‘Hamilton’ roars back into Portland

March 11, 2025James Bash

The latest Broadway tour of Lin-Manuel's historical hit musical, back in town through March 23, thrillingly tells its early American tale in contemporary style.

Trump’s Executive Orders and the NEA: A Detailed Timeline

March 11, 2025Claire Willett

Claire Willett explores the new guidelines around gender ideology the National Endowment for the Arts has set for grant applicants and how they might affect Oregon arts organizations.

Inaugural Newgrass Festival brings bluegrass bands, including Broken Compass and Never Come Down, to Newberg

March 10, 2025David Bates

The festival, on Saturday in the Chehalem Cultural Center, grew out of popular jam sessions at Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery.

As Ashland’s theater season kicks in, an actor does double duty without a doubt

March 10, 2025Jim Flint

Daniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early start in Rogue Theater Company's "Doubt" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Lecture: The trials and triumphs of John Adams

March 9, 2025William C. Stack

Speaking in the Hatfield Lecture Series, historian Lindsay Chervinsky talks about her book "Making the Presidency" and the path Adams paved as our second president.

Celebrating the small has become a big deal at the McMinnville Short Film Festival

March 8, 2025David Bates

About 1,600 tickets were sold for the recent independent film festival, which instead of superheroes and explosions, offers an expansive view of what it’s like to be a human in this world.