The company, Oregon's only Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island-focused theater, is expanding its vision and opening up to ideas from its audiences.
December 9, 2025Ellen Clarke
Portland's Franklin Foto is a gathering space for devotees of classic film photography — and its newest exhibit, featuring shots of local musicians, brings in the music crowd, too.
December 9, 2025Linda Ferguson
Theater review: Salt and Sage offers a merry comedy of Shakespearean romantic mix-ups.
December 8, 2025Patrick Collier
A profusion of images greets visitors to Ralph Pugay's exhibition 'ShangriLIEF.' Patrick Collier tries to make sense of the charmingly bizarre chaos.
December 8, 2025Angela Allen
The Norwegian-Swedish vocal trio invited the Oregonian duo to join them on their recent Friends of Chamber Music concert in Portland.
December 7, 2025James Bash
Oregon Symphony’s Director of Classical Programming discusses everything from spreadsheets and contingency planning to catching the conducting bug at Yale and his early days schlepping timpani at New York’s 92nd Street Y.
December 4, 2025Linda Ferguson
Stumptown Stages' colorful revival of Lionel Bart's classic 1960 musical version of Charles Dickens' novel of scoundrels and pickpockets is an exuberant delight.
December 3, 2025Angela Allen
Composer/librettist Jodi Goble and co-librettist Michael Ching’s WWII-era opera celebrates the Greatest Generation.
December 3, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews
A photo essay featuring Pyxis Quartet and mousai REMIX, who recently performed Shaw’s complete string quartet music as part of the “Sounds Like Portland” festival.
December 3, 2025Darleen Ortega
Review: PassinArt continues its long tradition with a gorgeous and moving production of Langston Hughes's gospel songplay, this year at Alberta Abbey.
December 3, 2025Beth Sorensen
The future of Guardino Gallery and even the building it inhabits was up in the air for months after the passing of Donna Guardino, a Northeast Portland legend.
December 2, 2025Hannah Krafcik
With a fish cannon and other sculptural works, Sasha Fishman explores how humans relate to aquatic life and what aquatic life can tell us about fantasy.
December 1, 2025Barbara Quinn
The murals, painted under a federal program for public art in 1936 at what was then a post office and is now a Bahá'i center, depict a dominant white culture and could be moved to another site that can put them in context.
November 28, 2025Darleen Ortega
Review: In Lauren Gunderson's stage adaptation, Louisa May Alcott plays a central role among her creations, bringing an old-favorite novel into the modern age.
November 28, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts
Dmae Lo Roberts' new podcast gets the lowdown from director Charles Grant and star La'Tevin Alexander on this year's Dickens classic onstage at Portland Playhouse.
November 24, 2025Sue Taylor
The artists' works in "Passing Time," on view through November 29th at Gallery 114, use grids to reflect on duration and the ephemeral. Sue Taylor reviews.
November 22, 2025Hannah Krafcik
Barcelona's Lali Ayguadé Company performs "Runa," a duet delving into the rubble of the past and a relationship that has undergone melancholic shifts.
November 21, 2025Charles Rose
A (re)consideration of the Portland indie rock band on the occasion of their recent orchestral collaboration, part of the symphony’s “Sounds Like Portland” festival.
November 21, 2025Jim Redden
After months of discussion, the Metro Council votes to transfer management of the three downtown performance buildings to the City of Portland by July 1, 2027.
November 21, 2025David Bates
In a digital world, master printer Paul Mullowney provides an analog training ground for both professional artists and underserved populations.
November 20, 2025John Weber
After a decade-plus in the making, the Portland Art Museum's new spaces are now open to the public. John Weber reviews.
November 20, 2025Angela Allen
PO’s seasonal warhorse production at The Keller, running through November 23, hits all the marks.
November 20, 2025Amy Leona Havin
El Akkad's book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," is a blistering reflection on the Israel-Hamas war.
November 18, 2025James Bash
Two – maybe three – world premieres marked the MYS season opener: Giancarlo Castro D’Addona’s new flute concerto, commissioned by Eccleston; a tone poem by Young Composers Project student Max Evans McGlothin; and the likely West Coast premiere of Ethyl Smith’s “Symphony for Small Orchestra.”
PYP launched their 102nd season on a crescendo with Beethoven, Grainger, and Ortiz.
November 18, 2025Angela Allen
As part of the “Sounds Like Portland” festival, OSO and Grant premiered Schiff’s new piano concerto, Large performed Kurt Weill’s “Seven Deadly Sins,” and the orchestra performed the young composer’s “Ostinato.”
November 18, 2025Marty Hughley
The beloved singer/songwriter, a stalwart of the Portland music scene for more than 50 years, leaves a legacy of music and memories for his many friends and fans.
November 17, 2025Prudence Roberts
In a series of large-scale paintings, the artist wrestles with devastation in Gaza through abstraction. New monotypes explore memory and the landscape of the Columbia River Gorge.
November 17, 2025Linda Ferguson
Review: Corrib Theatre’s world premiere production draws from the tale of Rumpelstiltskin to challenge the online narratives of today’s far right.
November 15, 2025K.B. Dixon
In the creative hodgepodge of a Sellwood store of practical things, finding grace and beauty in the pared-down shapes of the everyday tools of life.
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