Oregon Ballet Theatre kicks off its 34th season with Christopher Stowell’s remounting of his sterling 2006 OBT version of the classic tale of love and loss.
A new exhibit by the Portland Japanese Garden’s artist-in-residence looks with fresh eyes on the cultural meanings of Kyoto’s Rashomon Gate.
The arts and culture funding group, in the midst of a fierce battle over funding with the City of Portland, puts Executive Director Carol Tatch on paid leave pending investigation of unspecified issues.
The singer-songwriter-guitarist-bandleader discusses her band’s new album “Ofrenda.”
Madeline Sayet’s play, at the festival in Ashland through Oct. 15, strives to reconcile whether an Indigenous person can love the most famous writer produced by a colonial power.
FNM followed its mandate, with two days of demonstrations and performances of electro-acoustic and chance-based music by Annie Gosfield, Eve Beglarian, Kaija Saariaho, Hannah Ishizaki, Adina Izarra, and Kamala Sankaram.
The delightful vagueness of the term abstract means that it is a perfect binder for many of October’s art offerings. Also this month, Portland Open Studios celebrates its 25th anniversary and the Sitka Art International celebrates its 29th year.
The author and violinist discussed and demonstrated literature and music at the latest of 3A’s Listening Labs.
Warm up with M.R. O’Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.
What began as a way for student athletes to de-stress has grown to serve people dealing with trying situations, from caregivers to the seriously ill.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with visual artist Marie Watt, classical percussionist Niel DePonte, dancer & choreographer Oluyinka Akinjiola, poet & storyteller Brian S. Ellis, and actor & Portland Revels leader Lauren Bloom Hanover.
About 60 films of the weird and macabre will spool out at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre in the 28th annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Oh, the horror!
The Portland company gets down to the nitty-gritty as it prepares to open its 20th season with a trio of world premieres.
The Portland artist and co-founder of the Antler & Talon galleries was a rising star in the arts community. She will be remembered for her unflagging support for artists, her local community, and the environment.
In the newest edition of the –Ism Youth Files podcasts, host Jenell Theobald talks with young artists about the challenges of disability during and after the pandemic.
A ramble through public art spaces and a new exhibit at Salem’s Bush Barn Art Center that Pitt calls her last public show reveals the heart and spirit of a remarkable and beloved artist.
Green shows in Ashland, Indian music in Portland, Gustav vs. Gabe, queer and femme.
The center, with The Refindery shop and Repair Cafe, has a mission of helping people “step away from the garbage.”
Decades of battle over a pristine old-growth forest climaxed with the devastating 2020 Beachie Creek fire. But new growth is happening – and photographers are documenting a rebirth.
Also opening: Chloe Dumont’s debut feature “Fair Play,” “Flora and Son,” and Gareth Edwards’ “Creator.”
As the fall dance season kicks in, shows ranging from Pilobolus to circus acts, fright nights, Camille A. Brown, and a dance film festival hit the stage.
Art education teacher Cibyl E. Kavan draws on her imagination, current events, and her wide-ranging knowledge of fellow artists to light the creative sparks in her young students.
The pianist, professor and Portland Piano International founder’s warmth and wisdom made him a gentle leader in Oregon classical music.
The former Oregon political figure’s new memoir takes her back to the 1950s and life-shaping experiences from teaching in England to seeing apartheid first-hand.
Wolf takes on animals, art history, and textures of all types in eleven new paintings. Shannon M. Lieberman unpacks the many art historical references and visual intrigue.
Broadway Rose Theatre pulls out all the stops on the sizzling revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a celebration of Waller’s music and milieu.
The multi-screen installation documentary focuses on the life of Frederick Douglass. Julien’s project embodies the notion that there is always more than one version to any story.
“He led with his heart, and what a huge, open heart it was!”: The leader of Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Siletz Bay Music Festival leaves a giant gap among musicians and friends.
The festival’s just-announced 2024 season suggests a return to the kind of lineup that’s excited audiences in the past. Plus: Fats Waller and the joint are jumpin’ at Broadway Rose.
The series of five podcasts by young artists and writers continues as Cara Chen hosts “World On Fire.”
Authentic music making and memories highlighted the recent PSCO concert “Authentic Self,” which featured music by Mozart alongside works by Florence Beatrice Price, Gerald Finzi, Joaquín Turina, and more.
Also this week: “Radical Wolfe” pays tribute to an iconic New Journalist, and a hungry Hindu demon haunts a group of teens in “It Lives Inside.”
The “Ambassador’s Portal” by Ken McCall replaces a beloved sculpture as the city expands its public art offerings with plans for five more new pieces and an arts garden.
Tackling apocalypse and perseverance with the local consort of professional and amateur musicians.
The show, in the McMinnville gallery through Oct. 6, features work by artists from Outside the Frame, a nonprofit that mentors unhoused youth.
The Portland production of the doomsaying contemporary opera balanced farce and gloom.
As a new biography hits the book stands, Seattle theater critic Misha Berson recalls her own interactions with the late, great American playwright.
The innovative Portland dance company enters a new season in a spirit of collaboration, civic renewal, and fresh ideas.
Another year, another symphony season. Join our Puzzlemaster-in-Residence Daryl Browne as she conducts you through the musical highlights with this month’s crossword puzzle.
Tickets for opening night Oct. 20 go on sale Monday and are expected to sell out fast, say organizers of the event held at the High Desert Museum.
Bag & Baggage’s “Our Utopia” riffs on themes from Thornton Wilder’s classic. Plus openings, closings, and Bill Rauch’s debut with the new Perelman Center in New York.
A special, five-episode series from Stage & Studio of interviews by and with 20 young artists and writers begins with the podcast “And That Happened.”
Ten Fifteen Theater will present a world-premiere staged reading of “Bartow” next month in Astoria.
The erstwhile Portland author’s new book shows how today’s professional basketball stars influence fashion, style and more.
“Mutt,” the first feature film by director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, follows a trans man in New York over the course of two days.
The exhibition includes collage-based works from 44 artists from over the last 60 years. The works confirm the generative capacity and flexibility of collage as an artistic practice.
The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.
A new artistic director and a revived, walk-through “immersive installation piece” at Zidell Yards keeps the veteran devised-theater company moving forward.
Choirs all over Oregon and Southwest Washington celebrate the close of summer programs and the beginning of fall concerts.
The Nov. 4 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is slated to feature events with more than 100 Oregon and national authors.
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