As Portland Art Museum decommissions Whitsell Auditorium, PAM CUT looks across the river for a new home.
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In “Pacific Waters” at the Corvallis Arts Center, students composed works for strings to go with Mary Frisbee Johnson’s water sketches.
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The Salem Art Association opens the Waldo Bogle Gallery in the Bush House and unveils the two latest paintings in Jeremy Okai Davis's portrait series. The house's original owner and namesake would not be pleased.
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Plus: Award recipients Jacqueline Stewart and Jon Raymond talk with Marc Mohan about film history, creativity, and their current and upcoming projects.
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Review: Portland Center Stage's fresh take on Shakespeare's comedy is a nimble, playful, genderfluid, and not at all didactic delight.
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Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.
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The weekend event also includes free, self-guided tours of the work of 70 artists in 28 locations along the Central Oregon Coast.
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The longtime Portland theater figure and Broadway producer wins again, this time for the musical revival of 'Parade.'
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As 'Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio' opens at the Portland Art Museum, co-director Mark Gustafson and animation chief Brian Hansen talk about the making of the Oscar-winning movie.
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Profile's 'How To Make an American Son' tells a generational family tale. Plus: Duffy Epstein & friends head for 'California,' openings, closings.
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After a four-month construction shutdown, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education reopens with new shows, a new gallery, and a celebratory street fair.
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The Oregon composer organization blended works by its members with works by the mercurial Hungarian.
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Plus: The Understory Northwest Film Fest presents short films from three PNW directors, Edgar Wright's 'Cornetto' trilogy at Cinemagic, and other flicks from 'Ghostbusters' to 'The Palm Beach Story'
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Tom Stoppard's Tony-nominated family tale 'Leopoldstadt' steps deftly through trauma and time and the toll of the Holocaust.
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Lee Blessing life-and-death drama, Shakespeare's Puck & the gang, 'Full Monty,' and last chance for the fine 'Mary Jane' and 'True Story.'
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As Portland strives to revive from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon wraps up his five-part photographic series of scenes from the city that was and might be again.
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Other readings this month feature Portland poet Carlos Reyes, Ken Jennings of 'Jeopardy!' fame, and photographer Jamie Beck's exploration of Provence.
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Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.
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Oregon choirs end their first full season in three years with Bach, Ešenvalds, Nancy Ives, Stacey Philipps, Judy Rose, and so much more.
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This year’s symposium, in collaboration with the Oregon Bach Festival, features guest artists from Seoul as well as Japanese shakuhachi, Balinese gamelan, and western classical ensemble.
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