Other worlds beyond Earth: Seattle Opera’s ‘Orpheus’
Angela Allen
January 19, 2022
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck’s 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck’s 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
The artist’s assemblages are products of conscientious sustainability and a longing for a less cluttered and misused world, and express a vague hope for a better outcome.
Boosters envision the town of 2,300 becoming the “arts center of the Central Oregon Coast.”
Like Cézanne’s and Wayne Thiebaud’s, Wolf’s sensory paintings seduce the ordinary by upending our assumptions about reality.
The eminent arts educator and former dean of PSU’s School of Fine and Performing Arts shares his long journey that led back to Portland and imparts his advice for the city’s current arts scene
How to keep yourself and others safe in the theater (we’re in this thing together!). Plus an Agatha Christie, Profile’s “Gloria,” Milagro on Lorca.
In search of an avatar dragon and a very real snow leopard. Plus: Martin Luther King Jr. tributes, Coen Brothers & more.
A fresh exhibit of the late Oregon artist’s multifaceted work suggests the many masks and guises that create identity.
A new all-Latinx comic anthology is the latest from the award-winning Portland independent comics publisher P&M Press.
Loughran, the dance company’s general manager for 20 years, died on Friday from cancer at age 58.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
The multiple Tony-winning musical, in Portland through Sunday, is ‘a small wonder.’ Plus: Poirot at Lakewood, CoHo walks with fire, Fuse postpones.
A two-time Oscar winner for best foreign film looks at the ambiguities of heroism; a “demented Horatio Alger” keeps on trying.
Festivals galore hope to postpone postponement, offering live music and merch
Monthly hip-hop showcase enters its eighth year with Prince Hyph, THE DOE FLOW, and The Gard3n
Virtual readings, author conversations, a workshop for beating writer’s block, and a Merry Prankster book release fill the new year’s calendar.
New year, new art! Lindsay Costello has the scoop on January’s art offerings.
The group exhibition in Stelo’s new space on the Park Blocks features works created during two years of the organization’s papermaking and letterpress residencies.
The Indian immigrant turns a lifelong love of music into a career writing scores for the Tamil film industry.
And in Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum showcases Northwest photography, as well as Arvie Smith’s paintings exploring race and identity.
On the move: Memoirs by Mark Morris and Carol Rich, Victoria Fortuna’s exploration of dance and violence in Buenos Aires, the legacy of a Russian master.
Emily Marsh discusses her madcap adventures in the cult movie spoof show, which will be live in Eugene on Jan. 3 and Portland on Jan. 4.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
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