Shameless reverence: Renegade Opera’s “Orlofsky’s Party”
Lorin Wilkerson
October 9, 2024
RO’s modern retelling of “Die Fledermaus” at The Judy toyed with light opera conventions and contemporary social issues.
RO’s modern retelling of “Die Fledermaus” at The Judy toyed with light opera conventions and contemporary social issues.
The actor, director and writer, whose professional career spanned almost 60 years, is dead at 87, leaving a brilliant legacy ranging from Hollywood to Portland to Pakistan.
With Lo Steele in the title role and an all-star cast also serving as the onstage orchestra, Portland Playhouse’s magical stage version of a French film is awash with lyrical sights and sounds.
After a short run at the Brunish Theatre, Portland Opera To Go will take the internment-themed opera to schools across Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Dmae Lo Roberts and Kenji Oh’s new youth chamber opera is the latest in Portland Opera’s series devoted to historical leaders from diverse Oregon communities.
Maddalena Casulana, Margaret Bonds, Uģis Prauliņš, chants for St. Demetrios, and three “Homegrown” composers–Sydney Guillaume, Stacey Philipps, and Joan Szymko–find their way onto Oregon choral programs this month.
Time, talent, and a fertile soil for nourishing creativity: At Yamhill County’s A to Z Wineworks, artists in residence help produce the wine as they create their art.
Review: The ballet company’s season opener, first produced in New Zealand in 2019, digs deep into the story’s long history, complete with demon rabbits and a delicious little cottage.
Portland-based artist Wendy Red Star wins a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship; In commemoration of October 7th, poet Mimi German will read poems to mourn lives lost; Mona Huneidi’s installation at PCC honors the war’s missing journalists.
In a new psychodrama, Sebastian Stan stars as an aspiring actor who undergoes treatment to cure his facial deformity. Plus, film festivals in Portland, Ashland, Bend, and La Grande.
Choice selections, from Beaverton to Rogue Valley to Newport and everything in between.
Choice selections, from Oregon Symphony to Portland Baroque Orchestra and everything in between.
FNM’s all-Oregonian season started with a bang last weekend at Reed College’s acoustically-friendly Eliot Chapel Hall.
An air of mystery, intrigue, and languid sensuality runs through the 14 linked essays by the celebrated Portland writer.
A new dark comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of students from a Portland theater class premieres October 8th at the McMenamins Kennedy School Theater.
The Broken Planetarium gets ready to unleash “The Greenbrier Ghost.” And like most things ghostly, this fresh work of music, theater, and free expression plays by its own rules.
“Amélie,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “Sweeney Todd” all take the stage this week. October also brings Artists Rep’s “The Event!,” the concert musical “Is You Is,” “Wicked” and more.
There are many ways to mark and reflect upon the passage of time. This month’s picks for VizArts Monthly capture the phenomenon in everything from fashion to clay to obsolete technology.
For two weekends, more than 60 wine country artists will open their work spaces to visitors for the 30th annual Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County.
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