Joyce and Ray Tsang’s film & video company grows roots in Oregon as it works around the world – and makes Emmy-winning videos for the Super Bowl.
A sprawling and epic yet nevertheless inherently incomplete attempt to encapsulate Oregon music via physical media available on the music industry’s greatest foe.
The season casts its spell on Oregon’s dance scene, with companies from OBT to Ballet Fantastique to Grand Kyiv Ballet to BodyVox and many more joining in on the enchantment.
Angelina Jolie brings majesty and gravitas to the role of Maria Callas in director Pablo Larraín’s biopic about the legendary soprano.
The former Chamber Music Northwest protégé ensemble delivered a wide-ranging program of music by Tate, Mendelssohn, and Dvořák.
After a successful run on the festival circuit, writer-director H. Nelson Tracey’ debut feature screens Monday, December 2, at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre.
The chamber opera ensemble haunted Raven’s Manor with operas by Lisa Neher and Kimberly Osberg.
The Portland photographer’s vibrant portraits of Oregon Black “superheroes” fill two galleries at Salem’s Bush Barn Art Center and Bush Barn Museum and a third at Portland Center Stage.
From multiple “Messiahs” and “Magnificats” to music from around the world, Oregon’s humongous choral family gets into the holiday spirit.
The premise of the new exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, began formulating in curator Melissa F. Feldman’s mind after the New Yorker moved to the Seattle area
Teachers at Portland’s five ballet academies bring their distinctive styles and approaches to both technical training and artistic expression, resulting in an array of offerings for budding dancers.
The 2024 releases include a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir.
Cascadia Composers teams up with a quartet of Oregon Poets Laureate in a concert of Northwest-spawned sounds and words
Ridley Scott’s sequel to his 2000 sword-and-sandal epic doesn’t tread any new ground, but it still delivers a lavishly gory spectacle worthy of the big screen.
The dancers of Oregon International Ballet Academy, fresh from a tour of China and Japan, return to The Reser with their version of “The Nutcracker” Nov. 23 and 24.
Progressive art studios offer space and support for artists to create and thrive. Navigating the art world’s power dynamics requires attention and care.
On two nights in November, RO presented a workshop reading of Danielle Olana Jagelski and Rhiana Yazzie’s opera-in-progress about students at Utah’s Intermountain Indian School and a staged performance of Jesse Preis’ “fach-free” opera.
The Oregonian composer discusses her musical journey, her relationship with Columbia Riverkeeper, and the background and creation of her latest album, “Thrice Burned Forest.”
The exhibition “Before my Very Eyes” features both large- and small-scale abstract compositions. Danial’s deft handling of paint highlights her commitment to form and an artistic process that unfolds at its own speed.
Review: New Zealand’s Õkāreka Dance Company, presented by White Bird, delves deeply and movingly into Māori culture and tradition within a contemporary dance context.
DramaWatch: In addition to a sleigh full of holiday shows, Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” an updated Cinderella story, a comic horror musical, and an unexpected Austen heroine are making their appearances on Oregon stages.
Heading north during the holiday season? Seattle’s theaters are hoisting multiple cups of onstage seasonal cheer (and a couple of spirited shows without the holiday theme).
45|| with conductor Raúl Gómez-Rojas and soloists Abbe Drake and Katherine Goforth performed Schoenberg’s chamber arrangement of the song cycle in October.
Parsons, known and admired for her collage work and her long teaching career at The Museum Art School, was active as an artist well into the 21st century.
The poetic satire pitted Democrats against Whigs in a story of a judge willing to break laws to fulfill his outsized political ambitions.
Sixty years after they skyrocketed to international stardom, test your knowledge of the Beatles with this retrospective crossword puzzle.
Since April 2023, the Liberty Theatre’s low-cost program has brought theater, dance – and self-confidence – to North Coast kids.
The Japanese American percussion ensemble celebrates its 30th anniversary by looking back to its origins while confronting today’s challenges and changes
Artistic director Tim Bond and board member Amy Cuddy talk about what’s in the wings for OSF as the festival seeks to build back from the Covid years and prepares for its 90th season.
The young composer Elishiya Crain-Keddie’s “Innamorata” sparkles in a program including Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and contemporary American composer Missy Mazzoli.
Plus: a tour through the films of the Master of Suspense in “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock,” and the Daisy Ridley thriller “Magpie.”
An outstanding performance by PYP alumna Hamani Froom of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto highlights a 101st season-opening program that also includes works by Silvestre Revueltas and William Grant Still.
Review: Chronicling the friendship between a teen and a librarian, the 21ten Theatre production of the Oregon playwright’s award-winning play glows with humor and emotion.
A continuing revitalization-grants program of the Oregon Community Foundation has awarded $578,000 so far to arts and cultural groups from Coos Bay to Bend to Baker City and beyond.
On her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with actor and social justice activist Susi about touring a version of Homer’s epic tale to prisons, church groups, community centers and more.
Murals by professor Tim Timmerman and stained glass by Bryant Stanton add color to the graceful space, where an open house on Thursday will welcome visitors.
Work by 14 artists sparks conversation on the human connection to water flowing through every aspect of our lives.
The Oregon composer discusses his piece “Voynich Transcriptions” (performed at this week’s Fear No Music concert), his early attachment to piano and electronics, and why he doesn’t think music is an art.
Full-day passes sold out by summer’s end, but individual tickets remain for some concerts, and free events are scattered throughout the weekend.
Also this week: Jérémy Clapin’s sci-fi fable “Meanwhile on Earth,” Tyler Taormina’s “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” and much more.
The show, running through Nov. 22, is a tribute to the power of ink on paper and how that power has functioned as a political tool — and still can.
Fall concerts and revels; choral music for films; the first stirrings of Christmas.
The Eugene theater’s production of “The Last Yiddish Speaker” gathers actors and audiences closely together for a Rolling World Premiere.
The English singer performed “Schwanengesang” and other selections with pianist Myra Huang for Chamber Music Northwest.
While November’s dark and cold may discourage leaving the house, there are plenty of art exhibits to entice you out and about.
“The Raven,” Witch Mountain, Shaw vs. Shaw, 45th Parallel’s Angel, Hannah Penn’s “Shakespeare Songs,” Ginette DePreist at Oregon Historical Society, and plenty more.
DramaWatch: Early November shows a range from comics and camp to E.M. Lewis’s heartfelt first two-hander, plus a sprinkling of holiday fare.
At a Reed College gathering, tribal artists Beth’Ann Gipson, Jacy Sohappy, Acosia Red Elk, and Patricia Whereat Phillips bring traditional Indigenous artistry into the contemporary world.
NW Dance Project kicks off its season with Sarah Slipper’s dazzling evocation of Harold Pinter’s time-reversing tale of love and betrayal and Ihsan Rustem’s equally compelling journey into the meanings of meditation.
Hope and wonder for the world were shared themes in conversations with a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, an “Atlas Obscura” editor, and an expert on mushrooms.
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