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.
SBMF director Yaacov “Yaki” Bergman mentored and collaborated with Sun for decades, making the pianist an ideal successor in the festival’s twelfth season.
Brassworks Gallery’s “Carnival Fabulon” celebrates the late Portland writer’s great gothic novel with works by more than 50 artists, and her son Eli Dapolonia picks a few of his favorites.
Clackamas Repertory Theatre mines the lasting appeal of the classic musical, which stays rooted in the Edwardian era yet dances with ease and high humor into the 21st century.
Chef Naomi Pomeroy’s recent death brings to mind a quirky group art show in 2000 that elevated her career as well as the artists’ – and set a tone for a culturally emerging city.
Stage & Studio: In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with director & choreographer Wallenfels about The Hatchery, a project to develop storytelling based in movement and music.
Katherine Whyte, Hannah Penn, and Douglas Williams shone in the English Baroque composer’s colorful, Italian-drenched opera.
The frequent ArtsWatch contributor, who has died at 83, was also a quiet, generous advocate for Oregon arts and a role model for continuing creativity to the very end.
How best to replace Portland’s busy east-west span? Bridge designer Keith Brownlie of Britain’s BEAM Architects parses the best choice from a sextet of arches and cable-stays. Now the bridge committee has selected an inverted “Y” cable stay design.
ArtsWatch is proud to lay out the numbers for 2023-24, but it’s people who are at the heart of everything we do.
Also this week: “A Matter of Life and Death” at Cinemagic, films from the Dennis Nyback archive, and the 1973 spaghetti Western “The Man Called Noon.”
The two-week residential summer camps offer a unique opportunity for young creatives to advance their artistic interests while connecting with other talented youth.
The designers of the Portland airport’s new terminal, opening Aug. 14, create an environmentally friendly, technologically innovative space that feels like a “first walk in an Oregon forest.”
Profile Theatre’s world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’ play wrestles fascinatingly with questions of family, professional striving, identity, and the meanings of love.
Hail fellows, well met: Until Anonymous Theatre’s one and only performance of “Romeo and Juliet” on Aug. 12, even the actors won’t know who’s in the show until they meet onstage.
Tuomi’s impact as a singer, conductor, educator, and advocate has been felt by generations of students from all over the world.
Pianist-composer Goodyear, flutist Lukas, pianist Mun, and hornist Vlatkovič joined forces with CMNW co-artistic directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim for a pair of July chamber music concerts at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium.
“There is joy in these pictures”: An exhibition at The Reser in Beaverton highlights the brilliant, humanistic war zone photos of a journalist killed by tank fire in Lebanon in 2023.
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, hip-hop’s b-boys and b-girls join the crowd of competitors. A few Portland breakers have some things to say about that.
Writers of all ages, genres, and experience levels find a home in the group’s classes, retreats, and writing studio. “We’re all storytellers to some degree,” says one instructor, “even if we don’t know it.”
With many new faces taking the helm, arts leaders make a case for why culture plays a significant role in the city’s economy.
Also: Fear No Music throws down the gauntlet, announcing an all-local composer season to come.
This year’s festival features a variety of choral concerts and lectures, most of them free, at churches around Portland.
The Protégé Project string quartet performed Mozart and Grieg at Lincoln Recital Hall for CMNW 2024.
Greater Portland’s August dance schedule is busy — and a lot of it’s happening in the great outdoors in parks and squares and other public spaces.
Despite July’s theme of slowing down, I still feel like it came and went so fast! Even so, my efforts did yield some results: I started noticing small details of my everyday life. One of those previously overlooked details was the vibrant
The Portland opera company’s annual pair of productions–David Hertzberg’s “The Rose Elf” and Handel’s “Acis, Galatea, & Polyphemus”—pit natural love against human villainy.
August shows also include a family of ceramicists at Linfield University and stories from the forest at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s cultural center.
Bobby Bermea talks with the Tony-nominated author of “Hell’s Kitchen” about theater, writing, family, deadlines, underdogs, and Diaz’s basketball story opening at Portland’s Profile Theatre.
Other literary events include appearances by authors of books on whitewater canoeing in Alaska, Eugene’s first organic vegetarian restaurant, and American explorers.
Vlautin discusses the real-life inspiration behind the book, the beauty of disappearing into songs, and why unsuccessful musicians keep chasing their dreams.
Also this week: “Seven Samurai,” newly restored in 4K, plus Hong Kong horror comedy “The Seventh Curse” and Soviet sci-fi in “To the Stars the Hard Way.”
As the city puts its parks and arts programs under the same umbrella, it considers replacing the arts tax with a new levy for both. And one of Keller Auditorium’s major tenants comes out staunchly in favor of PSU’s proposed replacement halls.
Nature is as much a character in the novel as the two women who bond over birds and their mutual concern for a 5-year-old boy who has stopped speaking.
Portland Center Stage’s JAW festival is off and running. Plus: “Reggie Hoops,” the return of Eliza Doolittle, site-specific plays in a century-old country store, farewell to Sam Mowry.
Broadway Rose Theatre Company’s smart and sharply choreographed “Beautiful” tells the inspiring story of singer and songwriter Carole King’s musical journey.
A rural Oregon grocery store-cum-creative hub provides a source of freshly devised plays — and a showcase for a new way of creating them
Sitka’s success has inspired a new dance program in the Knappa School District to be taught by Astoria Arts and Movement Center instructors.
CMNW co-commissioned the venerated American composer’s “conversation” for violin and percussion quartet.
The percussion quartet, whom Adams considers “the foremost interpreters of my music,” dazzled a surround-sound audience at Kaul Auditorium before repeating the feat at Oregon Bach Festival.
The beloved Portland actor, known over his 40-plus year career for his distinctive voice and his devotion to family, friends, the stage, and radio theater, leaves a giant legacy.
Test your knowledge of famous American composers in this July crossword puzzle.
The one-day modernist music festival continues to justify the words of George Crumb, performing music that “depends for its very existence on a type of pioneer performer” by Juri Seo, Steve Reich, Terry Longshore, and Crumb’s “Makrokosmos” in its four-part entirety.
How to make an image that rises above the ordinary? It’s simple – and complicated, K.B. Dixon declares.
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