With “Colors,” a rare chance to revisit three highlights of 20th century cinema (and wonder where the magic’s gone).
The live-theater company, which adapted to film when the pandemic hit, liked what happened and returns with a fresh quartet of topical films.
Choose your own adventure with a walking tour of Southeast Portland’s two-night music festival.
Mancini, whose legacy includes work with Literary Arts, Writers in the Schools, Mercy Corps, and the Children’s Institute, was known for her creativity and being “pretty much unstoppable.”
The festival’s seventh season paired new and recent local wines with music by contemporary and classical composers for a truly unique experience.
The Corvallis author of “Count On Us!” says she works through plot problems on long walks and has been inspired to activism by her daughter.
Plus: PSU museum serves an artistic feast, trouble by the San Francisco Bay, special delivery in Corvallis.
The Portland photographer says she is interested in the “lived history of Black place,” the legacy of Black artists in Oregon who came before.
The co-founder of Rising Tide Productions, which will open “Seascape” on Friday, calls theater a “blood event.” Unlike the movies, “you have a direct, visceral response.”
This month’s lit calendar is chock-full of free author readings from the likes of Lidia Yuknavitch, Wendy Red Star, Leanne Grabel, and others.
Photographer Joe Cantrell roams the plazas and parks and barns of town and country, discovering a feast of music and dance.
Celebrating the Oregon Children’s Theatre leader’s life; “tick, tick … BOOM!” blows the lid off the season at Portland Center Stage; Ashland openings; more.
Steve Saubert, whose family has been involved since the 1930s, remembers a fire, construction of an elevator with a 208-foot shaft, and discovery of a 400-year-old skeleton.
OrpheusPDX’s second production completes the company’s inaugural season of looking forward and looking back.
CMNW’s New@Night series closed with location-inspired music by Eleanor Alberga, Vijay Iyer, David Schiff, and Dana Wilson.
The summer festival ended with an evocative evening of Strauss and Schoenberg.
A consideration of Chamber Music Northwest’s five-week summer festival.
The Portland-born coloratura soprano returns to Oregon for two very different roles in OrpheusPDX’s inaugural season.
Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton play the genie-in-a-bottle game in George Miller’s newest; a documentary reveals a battle between cultures in the Amazon rainforest.
Sure, Hamlet’s the hero, and gets all the praise. But why? asks the actor playing the prince’s put-upon counsel. Isn’t Polonius a reasonable and honest guy, just doing his job?
In her new show, “There is so much I want to tell you,” the artist builds upon her previous explorations with letterpress and hidden text with gossamer layers. The effect is anything but insubstantial.
A co-founder of Ori Gallery, Vivas has stepped away from arts administration and organizing in order to focus on their studio practice. Vivas discusses their art and “finding the playground at the end of the world” with Hannah Krafcik.
Coming months also see the return of the Walnut City Music Festival and Art Harvest Studio Tours, as well as Gallery Theater’s season and a Scottish festival.
How a small design firm has helped transform how we view our state’s ethnic and cultural legacies.
The old school bus, which brings art to kids along the central coast, gets a vibrant re-do and becomes a work of art itself.
In this two-part exhibition, curator Merridawn Duckler seeks to tackle the complicated legacy of the historical Land Art movement and consider how artists engage with land in the Pacific Northwest in the 21st century.
A revival of a sharp and probing solo drama shows another side from “The Princess Bride.” Also: comedy improv, Hammerstein vs. Hart, more.
The Eugene muralist says seeing her work on the Oregon Coast Art Bus is both meaningful and flattering.
Community-based jazz fest expands into a ninth summer of big names, passion projects, youth ensemble concerts, and more.
Dance review: Allie Hankins’ “By My Own Hand, Part 1: Ghosting” begins before it begins – and that’s a good thing.
New opera company OrpheusPDX debuts at Lincoln Hall with a magnificent new production of the Monteverdi classic.
Rounding up the news from celebrations of life to a theater’s stolen computers to free Beethoven in Washington Park.
The annual mini-festival of contemporary music celebrated its eighth year with five hours of music at PICA, featuring compositions from across Latin America.
Theater review: Salt and Sage’s ambitious dual productions of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet” reckon with deep questions about love and mortality.
“The first thing I am looking for in a portrait is beauty”: K.B. Dixon talks about the intricate dance of subject and photographer.
Put your knowledge to the test with a crossword puzzle that covers six centuries of choral masterworks.
The author of “The Satanic Verses,” living under a death threat since 1989, is stabbed onstage in western New York. Grievously injured, he remains a profile in courage.
Holly Griffith takes the artistic reins at Portland’s Irish theater company; an outdoor “Tempest,” an indoor “Holy Days,” party with the Bar[d], singing “Newsies,” and a Quixote for today.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
The Oregon Community Foundation’s grants to arts and cultural projects range from $17,000 to $100,000 in Portland, Warm Springs, Phoenix, and Eugene.
The Portland company’s modern adaptation of Mozart’s opera merges formidable singing with contemporary political commentary.
Hopes for revival after a beloved neighborhood movie house burns; a crime movie pays off; small gems to stream from student filmmakers.
CMNW “Eastern Inspirations” concert featured music for solo violin by Esmail and Saariaho; music for strings and percussion by Cowell; and an emotional reading of Ravel’s piano trio.
The group of sculptures at PICA resists easy categorization but Hannah Krafcik finds multiple points of entry to consider.
The Portland Claymation studio founder and Oscar winner had big dreams – and lost them in a legal battle with the Knights.
August is festival season in the Pacific Northwest. Two to watch for: Portland Homowo & Twins Festival, Washougal Art Festival.
The Roseburg show of nearly 100 pieces in various media explores the gap between urban and rural Oregon — and strives to bridge it.
The sax quartet and virtuoso pianist joined forces for a surprising CMNW concert.
The dual exhibition “Curly Hair/Hot Metal” juxtaposes Takasaki’s bold, gestural abstractions with Rogers’ figure-inclusive collages.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
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