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.
A Labor Day weekend fixture in downtown Portland since 1997, the free festival offers booths for more than 100 artists, plus food, music, demonstrations, and hands-on activities.
As the fall theater season rolls out and the big dogs get ready to bark, the revival of a century-old sci-fi play about humans and human-like robots imagines an unnerving new world.
A slice of the recently-concluded festival, featuring Ross W. Duffin’s union of Byrd’s music with poetry by Sir Philip Sidney and Cantores In Ecclesia singing music of modern British composers alongside Byrd’s.
The movie week shoots for outer space with a rarely seen gem from the maker of “Fantastic Planet” and other interstellar adventures. Also: Japanese film festival, singing the blues, more.
Oregon dance meets fall with a flourish of events, from BodyVox’s open floor night to TBA Fest, dance from India, world premieres, the Portland Dance Film Festival and more.
An array of September readings and book gatherings around Oregon ushers in fall reading season.
A Portland writer turns to the harp to ease her fears and endure “the gloom of a life put on pause.”
The festival at New Expressive Works was a profoundly satisfying sensory feast of symphonic sound, stunning visuals, superb dancing, and thought-provoking intellectual stimuli.
Oregon writer Scott Nadelson talks about “Trust Me,” his new “vignette novel,” which he calls “Frog and Toad for adults.”
CMNW 2024’s new music series spotlighted living composers with fine performances and pre-concert talks with the composers.
FastHorse’s return to Portland with her new version of the classic Broadway musical at Keller Auditorium marks a full-circle moment for the ‘Thanksgiving Play’ author.
Critic at large samples the music festival where concerts are first class and free!
A job layoff inspired the Albany man to get back to photography. He found a subject in his daughter’s childhood.
Saturday’s anniversary party will include fun ranging from horticultural-themed bingo to magnet poetry, from life drawing to historical presentations.
Time out for canines: August 26 is National Dog Day, and Portland pawses to pay homage to its own. K.B. Dixon and his camera scour the city to seek out our best friends in action.
The Portland dance company and its sister troupe LED Boise stir up a kettle of contemporary dance, spicing the broth with a fog machine, a splash of milk, street dance, gender play and more.
“Never an Even Folding” features twelve paintings that confirm the painter’s deep knowledge of her medium and engagement with the Modernist tradition.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Jessica Wallenfels, visual artist Ryan Pierce, poet and book editor Valerie Witte, actor/director Isaac Lamb, and choral leader Katherine Fitzgibbon.
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane strike up an unlikely friendship in writer-director Nathan Silver’s ninth feature film.
The artist’s second solo show at One Grand Gallery, “Unseasonably Warm,” features an identifiable lexicon of shapes. The story that unfolds in the works manages to be both intensely personal and universal.
This year’s festival will feature performances by Julana Torres, Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, Jasnam Daya Singh, Christopher Brown, Randy Porter, Sound Creation Trio, Matt Mayhall, Noah Simpson, Nicole Glover, Adriana Wagner, Dan Balmer, Kerry Politzer, and more.
Pomeroy was writer-in-residence at Marshall High School when it closed in 2011. “It was the last thing that community needed,” he says of the Southeast Portland neighborhood.
The dark, haunting opera starred Lisa Marie Rogali and Madeline Ross in a setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale.
From Estacada to the Oscars, the irreverent independent filmmaker has been a father of animated invention. Now he’s back in Portland to show his newest, a cowboy film called “Slide.”
Portland’s Salt and Sage performs Shakespeare’s historical fiction in repertory with “Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2” through August.
Cirque’s “Kooza” settles under the Big Top for a lengthy run. A fireside chat with the author of the “Narnia” novels. And Larissa FastHorse gives a bold new twist to the musical “Peter Pan.”
Recent reports about opera, classical radio, choral achievements, young artists on the rise, and other Oregon arts news.
Test your knowledge of even more composers in this follow-up to July’s “American Composers” crossword puzzle.
Riswold, known for his groundbreaking work at the ad firm Weiden+Kennedy, also made his mark as a visual artist creating sharply pointed and often deeply comic satiric works deflating notorious autocratic strong men.
The Bend-based author, poet, educator, and nonprofit founder begins her term immediately, succeeding Anis Mojgani.
Martin Scorsese teaches a crash course on the films of Powell and Pressburger, plus a rare, intimate glimpse inside the Taliban in the wake of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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