The timeless Tchaikovsky tale of Odette, Odile, and Siegfried springs to life under the direction of Christopher Stowell, complemented by the magical stage sets of Filipo Sanjust and the costumes of Sandra Woodall with Mark Zappone.
The choral group’s CD release concert featured music by Melissa Dunphy, Renée Favand-See, Stacey Philipps, Mari Esabel Valverde, Vin Shambry, Dominick DiOrio, and Jake Runestad.
Ready for your (virtual) date with Death? ArtsWatch’s resident horror devotee scares up a few suggestions from fiction to podcasts to flicks, and explains the shuddering thrill of it all.
Discussing American and European oboe styles, musical studies, dry halls and the Curtis Sound with the Portland-raised musician.
The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.
As Oregon’s dance scene steps into the start of the holiday season, the possibilities of a busy calendar embrace a wide world of movement, style, and sound.
K.D. Dixon roams the streets of Portland with his camera in search of the odd, the eerie, the hair-raising, the ghoulish, the spectral, and the skeletal. Saints preserve us, he finds them.
After postponing its season and laying off its artistic leader, the company concentrates on getting its building open. Plus: this week’s new shows and last chances.
Friends have started a GoFundMe account to help the Newport business owner hurt while taking banners down for the November fundraising auction.
Marina Harss talks about dance, writing, and her new biography of Ukrainian American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, whose “Wartime Elegy” will be performed Nov. 3-12 in Seattle.
The Portland-based purveyors of “new weird horror” are building a mini-empire of shock and shivers, including the novelette double feature “Split Scream” released on Halloween.
In the latest installment in the ‘Gender Deconstruction’ series, Hannah Krafcik talks with Oregon Coast resident Daphne Sprinkle about transfeminine identity and community embrace.
Also screening: Steven Soderbergh’s “Divinity” and a slew of frightful flicks for the end of October.
Highlights from the festival’s 14th season included the documentaries “Kim’s Video” and “Finding Groovopolis” and the narrative features “Free Time” and “The Secret Art of Human Flight.”
The latest of OSO Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane’s Open Music Series concerts featured music by Kahane, Sam Adams, Andy Akiho, Julius Eastman, Reena Esmail, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and Julia Wolfe.
Kulla, part of a team that documented 70 plants around the world, combines her organic-farming and illustrating skills on an international publishing project.
SO staged the Handel opera with six singers (including one countertenor), modern set design, and haute couture costuming.
Oregon Symphony will perform Akiho’s latest this weekend, alongside Dvořák’s Othello Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique.”
The Oregon College of Art and Craft closed its doors in 2019. Abby McGehee considers the second, post-closure biennial of alumni work on view in October at X Gallery.
The Sempoashochitl Festival, in honor and celebration of Día de los Muertos and the glories of the marigold, brings a whirl of traditional dance, art, music and remembrance.
“Quarterback Princess,” a 1983 TV movie that kicked off two future Academy Award winners’ careers, is also a McMinnville (or rather, “Minnville”) time capsule.
Steeped in the history of good and evil, these nightmare figures of protection and malevolence come out on Halloween. They’re also K.B. Dixon’s office mates.
Historian Jonathan Eig talks to a Portland audience about his intimate portrait of MLK Jr.’s American journey in “King: A Life,” the first biography of the human rights crusader in 40 years.
The company, beset by financial problems in the midst of a major construction project and a suspended season, parts ways with Jeanette Harrison, its artistic director of only a year.
A bold exhibition at the Hammer Museum reveals the City of Angels from street level, basking in the textures of the city’s past and its roiling, often overlooked contemporary realities.
Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, the audience favorite opens the 2023/2024 season, accompanied by Orchestra Next playing a live score.
Free Wednesday salsa classes at Doc Marie’s offer a welcoming night of fun and friendship in a queer-centered environment.
Third Rail Rep bellies up to the Irish writer’s “Two Pints.” Plus: A Lebanese solo show, an annotated “Merchant of Venice,” openings and last chances.
The author of “There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years” will lead a Zoom conversation from Newport on growing old.
the 1905, Damien Geter, Carlos Kalmar.
During their single night performance at White Bird, the celebrated dance company presented new collaborations and revisited classic works stretching back to its founding in 1971.
!mindparade, Saloli, Via Mardot, and all the synths; Yawa with her voice and her technologies; a tribute to Svoboda; Delgani plays Golijov and Reza Vali; an All Hallows’ Evening.
The electric jazz trio will perform at the Portland night club in October.
Also this week: Errol Morris’s “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Signe Baumane’s “My Love Affair with Marriage,” and the Astoria International Film Festival.
The puppeteers of Kettlehead Studios, the instrumentalists of Musica Universalis, an adventurous director and a skilled actress create a myth-driven seasonal show.
Mezzo-composer Lisa Neher, flutist Rose Bishop, and pianist Abbie Brewer performed a concert of “innovative yet beautiful” chamber music in Saint Paul.
Four days at the Bend Film Festival yield a bounty of gripping documentaries, local gems, and highly anticipated indie releases.
Lemire fell hard for the pipe organ as a child. On Tuesday, he will play his own score to accompany the silent film in McMinnville.
The beloved Willamette University professor often reminded students ‘the work of the art historian is never done.’ Mentee and friend Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander reflects on Hull’s life and lasting legacy.
Committed to excellence through music, the Portland Youth Philharmonic has a winning season every year – for 100 years!
Metropolitan Youth Symphony emphasizes fun and enjoyment in music-making
As Halloween hastens toward us, Tenebrous Press throws a party for “Posthaste Manor,” Jolie Toomajan and Carson Winter’s “new weird horror” novel about a very haunted house.
Test your knowledge of G&S with a puzzle that’s sure to challenge even the most modern of Major-Generals.
Choirs throughout Oregon’s midsection, from Corvallis to Ashland.
The noted school for physical theater announces an emergency fund drive to keep its doors open. Plus: new Oregon Arts Commission grants, Dan Ryan’s quartet of city Art Talks.
As the world’s climate wobbles, the Portland artist’s show at Waterstone Gallery looks for windows of possibility through fire-and-water catastrophes in Oregon and Pakistan.
Shaking the Tree takes on the bitter beauty of Lorca’s poetic tale. Plus: “California” returns, Milagro celebrates women warriors, Triangle heads for the Big Apple.
In the fifth and final edition of the –Ism Youth Files podcasts, host Mila Kashiwabara and other young artists conclude a two-year journey by talking about the meanings of mental health.
The local composer assembled a cast of artists and musicians for an environmentally conscious arts and culture festival.
A new documentary about Joan Baez offers an intimate view of the singer and counterculture icon toward the end of an astonishing career.
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