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.
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.
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