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Confess!: Renegade Opera’s “hot as hell” production...

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2025/09/16

RO’s setting of the Ashi Day chamber opera drew parallels between 16th-century witch-hunts and their present day equivalents.

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Portland artist Licity Collins wins $74,000 Oregon...

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2025/09/16

Collins says she drew on her experiences during residencies at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology — including living with a noisy refrigerator — in writing "One Death in Seven Doorways."

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Portland muralist Gary Hirsch, creator of whimsical...

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2025/09/15

The artist and consultant’s playful robots offer inspiration from Portland walls; now he turns his hand to monsters in the workplace in a volume on organizational transformation, scheduled to come out in December.

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In ‘The Lion King,’ 3 cheers for the villain

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2025/09/14

Preview: Peter Hargrave revels in the role he's played in the musical's Broadway tour more than 1,000 times: "I like to think Scar is the fan favorite. It is an iconic Disney villain.”

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Dance Review: Carlyn Hudson’s ‘A Presentation’ is a...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/13

The dancer and choreographer, whose work blends the precision of ballet with contemporary impulses and a dash of comedy, continues through Sept. 14 at Boyvox.

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Ashland Film Festival names a new director of...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/13

Aura Johnson, a festival staffer since 2012 with previous roles at Skywalker Sound, Zoetrope, and other major movie companies, takes over as the festival's programming chief.

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‘Seasons: Lan Su Garden’: In new book, photographer...

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2025/09/13

Isaak, who calls herself an “opportunistic photographer,” will talk about and sign copies of her book Sunday at Portland’s Blue Sky Gallery.

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Not as victims but as victors: Karen Slack’s “African...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/12

Soprano and Portland Opera Artistic Ambassador Slack discusses the set of songs, all by Black composers, which she will perform this weekend at The Reser.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin’s ‘Unfinished Love Story’ amid...

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2025/09/12

The historian and presidential biographer kicks off the Oregon Historical Society's Hatfield Lectures season with the story of her marriage to Dick Goodwin and their roles in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Spinal Tap’ taps out and ‘The Long...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/11

Also: "Democracy Noir" chronicles the rise of Hungary's far-right Fidesz Party, plus Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning performance in "Save the Tiger" in a new Blu-ray release.

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A wonderful season of singing: The beginning of the...

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2025/09/11

Oregon choirs get into medieval scholarship, win barbershop competitions, and sing Robert Kyr for the Green Patriarch.

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Portland filmmaker Rose Bond’s COVID-delayed ‘1968’...

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2025/09/11

Originally scheduled to accompany a performance by the Oregon Symphony in 2020, the 10-minute VR animation finally debuted this summer under a geodesic sound dome.

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Songs about roses: A story about Morten Lauridsen

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2025/09/10

Composer and pianist Naomi LaViolette reflects on her friendship with the esteemed choral composer.

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Tillamook County Pioneer Museum: Bringing Tillamook...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/10

The 90-year-old museum has an archive of more than 55,000 objects and 20,000 photos, as well as stewardship of the 200-acre Kilchis Point Reserve.

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Exuberant & unexpected: Ricky Bearghost’s weavings

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/09

On view at Elbow Room, "Rug Farm" features weavings made with traditional, found and foraged materials. The vibrant compositions underscore the inevitability of interconnection.

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‘GRIOT’: Celebrating the keepers and creators from...

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2025/09/09

Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater's newest work, debuting Sept. 12-21 at Reed College, dives into the soul of the tradition-keeping griot from past to present and future.

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‘The Cake’: Making a meal of the gay-marriage debate

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2025/09/09

Review: At Triangle Productions, a conservative baker must decide whether she’ll make the cake for a lesbian wedding.

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Portland’5 Centers for the Arts faces management...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/09/08

As a proposed management switch from Metro to the city advances, questions abound over maintenance costs and the price of updating Keller Auditorium and adding a possible new performance center at PSU.

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In ‘Richard Neuberger,’ journalist Stephen Forrester...

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2025/09/08

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.

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Digital nomad Nicole Elyse will recount her...

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2025/09/06

From getting robbed at gunpoint in Colombia to relying on the kindness of strangers in Laos, the world traveler says the peripatetic life has been “a thousand times better than I expected.”

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