Maybelle Community Singers will partner with Aurora Chorus, Bravo Youth Choir, and PSU choirs for a free event at First Christian Church this weekend.
On beyond vengeful Santas: “Nanny” and “The Inspection” tell potent human tales, “Chatterley” is a handsome version of the novel, “Fawn” goes ancient Greek on the thriller format.
The weather outside may be frightful but there is plenty of art (inside!) to explore this month. Lindsay Costello rounds up December’s noteworthy offerings.
Joint shows at the Schneider, a solo show of Prest’s work and a group show curated by Prest, offer viewers a meditative moment contemplating abstraction.
It’s a bout of bouts as PBO’s quest for its next artistic leader goes to the bell.
This month features author readings, book release parties, a festive holiday storytime, the return of The Moth Mainstage, and Patti Smith at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Theater companies in McMinnville, Salem, and Forest Grove stage holiday plays, including a new “Christmas Carol,” and look ahead to their 2023 seasons.
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s new anthology of work by 13 prominent Native writers is a celebration and a provocation – and it’s free.
Dmae Lo Roberts reprises a 2017 podcast interview with the jazz composer, her friend and collaborator, who has died at 64.
The painter’s lush and surrealistic canvases are right at home in the theater space. Patrick Collier considers their colorful allure.
Friends and colleagues share memories of the long-time Portland State professor and Oregon’s finest composer.
The Portland developer was a longtime trustee of the Portland Art Museum and a key figure in transforming the North Park Blocks into a gallery and museum district.
Suddenly it’s time for theatrical good cheer, from Tiny Tim to a Wonderful Life to a PDX musical – plus Corrib’s foray into an intense virtual future.
Creating a bigger table for a more sustaining and convivial feast.
Review: Rawls’ screen-prints at Adams and Ollman Gallery are like a tug-of-war between dance and writing.
“Bones and All” revels in the sins of the flesh; Spielberg looks at anti-Semitism in America; Portlander Mark Gustafson co-directs “Pinocchio.”
Victoria Anne Reis and manuel arturo abreu’s first exhibition of their year-long curatorial residency continues the work of their “homeschool” educational project.
FNM’s upcoming concert celebrates artistic cooperation and compositional traditions through time and space.
Jazz and world music composer Cherry and contemporary classical composer Svoboda left their marks in Portland and around the world.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with theater leader Josh Hecht, art school dean Jen Cole, opera singer Hannah Penn, novelist Tony Ardizzone, and film prop and effects artist Christina Kortum.
Judge Henry Hughes calls the work in the 29th collection of poetry and prose “exceptionally high quality,” despite a pandemic hit to the budget and fewer contributions from adults.
A conversation with the Portland-educated experimental filmmaker and newly minted MacArthur “Genius Grant” honoree.
Fourth annual festival draws dance artists from around the world together for masterclasses, workshops, and to share their work.
From the nouveau-cirque of Teatro ZinZanni to Jane Austen, Mr. Dickens, and some holiday noir, the city’s theater scene is flying high again.
Two big gifts aid the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and five Portland groups; new faces at the Miller Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission; a leadership incubator wants you.
Two of Oregon’s premier theater schools, Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre and The Actors Conservatory, are sharing space in the historic Tiffany Center.
Combining solo and ensemble pieces, “Momentum of Isolation” asks us to consider whether our growing digital existence is actually contributing to a lack of social connection.
Inspired by her father’s Alzheimer’s Disease and by the general theory of relativity, Marissa Rae Niederhauser’s new production at Performance Works Northwest takes us through both the beauty and the tragedy of time.
The quartet was recently featured in November’s Dvořák Festival, presented in Oregon by Friends of Chamber Music.
Kristina Wong’s “Sweatshop Overlord” is a sharp and heartwarming look behind the politics of Covid. Plus: The Shakespeare Festival’s big gift.
The photographs in Blue Sky’s pair of November exhibitions are profoundly different, but Shannon M. Lieberman finds common ground in the artists’ optimism.
Shades of Fellini: “Bardo” is decadent, indulgent, and well worth the ride; “The Menu” gleefully roasts the rich and clueless.
Oregon Ballet Theatre picks veteran arts administrator Shane Jewell. Also: Good reviews for Katherine Dunn’s novel “Toad”; a 92nd birthday bash for Darcelle.
The Beaverton arts center’s new gallery show from Studio Abioto, a family of talented Black women artists, traces a thread back to the land.
Theaters and galleries ramp up for the holidays with a stone-age musical, a new adaptation of Dickens’ classic, art sales, and a Pride Winter Ball.
More than 5,000 people attended Portland’s celebration of all things literary. Here’s what a handful of them were reading.
Portland documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom (“Alien Boy,” “Finding Normal”) and co-director Andy Brown discuss their new film about the life and sorrows of ’70s singer Judee Sill.
“Messiah” season is nearly upon us, but the baroque composer wrote hundreds of other works: operas, cantatas, chamber music, and more. How many do you know?
The pandemic inspired five women to find a new way to “keep each other buoyed in the storm,” both financially and spiritually.
From Oregon to New York to L.A. to a long successful stretch on Portland stages, the actor and director now finds herself in a new city, and working in a new medium.
Profile’s “King of the Yees” takes an imaginative trip through split cultural identities. Plus “Jagged Little Pill,” openings, closings.
Soweto Gospel Choir brings their “Hope” to Portland; a collaborative barbershop concert in close harmony; a salon in Eugene; the Yuletide concert season begins, from Jenkins’s “Miserere” to Geter’s “Requiem” to Britten’s “Saint Nicolas Cantata” to Rutter’s “Gloria.”
The Lane County photographer’s retrospective in Springfield surveys 60 years of work. Blake Andrews reviews the show and considers Neevel’s wide-ranging interests.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Ashland New Plays Festival wrap up seasons of bold plays that grapple with modern issues and life.
Without the late Chadwick Boseman, a quintet of fierce females leads the Marvel franchise into vivid new territory.
The composer of country hit “My List” says he is proud to be performing in the theater named for his friend, David Ogden Stiers.
The festivals at the Hollywood Theatre and Cinema 21 provide a rainbow of stories about LGBTQ+ life.
The OSO performed Nielsen, Strauss, Stravinsky, and Beethoven alongside new and recent works by Donnacha Dennehy, Gabriella Smith, Lera Auerbach, and Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane.
Immigrant stories in “I Am an American Live”; Chinatown Museum; a trip to Paris Photo; a farewell to Gwyneth Gamble Booth, Native American Arts & Salmon Festival.
The 30-year-old event, last held in 2019, takes place on the West Valley Community Campus, an up-and-coming center for art and culture.
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