Halloween creeps into September with three new horror flicks of varying quality. Also this week: the documentary “Join or Die,” plus pre-Code women screenwriters on the Criterion Channel.
The composer and artistic director discusses the roots and reasons of the new music organization’s organically audacious upcoming season.
Staged as part of the return of PICA’s Time-Based Art festival, Whitehead’s impressive opera explores embodied and emotional experiences around incarceration.
Other authors scheduled to appear at the Nov. 2 event include Robert Samuels, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Kushner, Willy Vlautin, Carson Ellis, and many, many more.
Every singer in Oregon gets back to work, with music ranging from local to ancient.
Four Portland women in their 20s talk about how they’ve built their own creative businesses, from a popular card game to size-inclusive clothing to beadwork to online comedy.
Margie Boulé takes the stage at triangle productions!, reprising her role as the legendary Texas Democrat in a play that offers abundant laughs, a sliver of hope, and a reminder to vote.
Jazzy clarinet concerto and a tribute to Celilo Falls closed out this year’s festival on the Oregon Coast.
At Milagro’s world-premiere political farce and Clackamas Rep’s solo show about loss and lovely things, the audience becomes an eager part of the action. Plus: a month of clowning at CoHo.
The mural tells the story of the community that has grown up around the Northeast Portland center run by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
As the city’s vaunted theater scene navigates some major shifts, a lively fall lineup ranges from a ribald political farce to a trip to the Taj Mahal, the NW premiere of 2024’s Pulitzer-winning play, a “Jubilee,” a “Funny Girl” and more.
The artist-run, Portland-based record label gives Oregon musicians the vehicle to share their diverse sounds worldwide.
The gallery, in an industrial park, is a sprawling nexus of beautiful, high-end art, savvy entrepreneurship, state-of-the-art technology, and light industry.
A thriller from French-Canadian director Pascal Plante hits theaters this week alongside a supernatural comedy from New Zealand and some choice streaming picks.
Drama, comedy, and music take center stage at Gallery Theater, Linfield University, Struts & Frets Theatre Company, Gather Repertory, and Pentacle Theatre.
Photographer K.B. Dixon poses a wooden English cat, “rescued” from The Shambles in York, in a multiple lifetimes’ worth of catlike poses. Cat fanciers might find all of them familiar.
A rant; a proposal; a consideration of the latest from Deena T. Grossman and E. Ellison.
Talking about growing up with gospel and hip-hop, composing string quartets and opera, playing tuba, and the spontaneity of composition with this year’s WVCMF composer-in-residence.
Summer is going out with a confusing bang: The last two weeks of August were cool and rainy but September is starting with a heat wave! Fortunately the gallery scene is heating up, too.
The veteran actor and director talks with Dmae Lo Roberts on her newest Stage & Studio podcast about race in the theater, his fondness for Neil Simon, and the Simon comedy he’s directing for PassinArt.
Young stagescraft specialists get intensive on-the-job training through the mentorship program, which helps fill a need for a skilled workforce and guarantee a future for performing arts.
45th Parallel Universe’s Garden Parties, Renegade Opera’s “Batman,” Deena T. Grossman’s new album, Fear No Music’s Oregonic season, and orchestras all over the state.
An adjacent restaurant fire Aug. 5 poured smoke and soot into the blue-chip gallery, coating everything. Now restorers are beginning to clean 1,500 artworks, and the gallery hopes to reopen in December or January.
Curated by Jessica Rehfield-Griffith in consultation with RiRi Calienté of the House of Calienté, the show aimed to “demystify drag.” It offered the community much more.
The experimental opera “Te Moana Meridian,” premiering at PICA’s TBA Fest, is also a push to decolonialize the Prime Meridian and shift it to international waters in the Pacific Ocean.
PICA’s TBA:24 festival, spreading across the city Sept. 5-22, boasts a busy lineup including Linda K. Johnson’s “PASTfuture,” presented in part by her ongoing “Mycelium Dreams” project.
As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.
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