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Art on the Road: Some thoughts on heritage

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2025/09/06

Discovering the pioneer pleasures of Thompson's Mills, Oregon's newest State Heritage Site, and the loss of a deeper Indigenous history in the closure of Five Oaks Museum.

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The Cultural Landscape: Part 23

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2025/09/05

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of playwright and performer Brianna Barrett, composer and musician Luke Wyland, journalist and essayist Katherine Cusumano, actor and director Ted Rooney, and scenic designer and visual artist Alex Meyer.

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MusicWatch Monthly: One great blooming, buzzing...

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2025/09/04

From Renegade Opera’s witch hunt through musical activism, late summer festivals, and a trio of symphonies – all just in time for the eternal return of Bandcamp’s Fee Free First Fridays.

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FilmWatch Weekly: A trio of triangles with the...

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2025/09/04

Also this week: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman duke it out in "The Roses," plus the Seattle-set "Know Your Place" and more.

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LitWatch September: Mother Foucault’s Poetry...

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2025/09/04

Other author appearances this month include Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, author of a new biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Heather Quinn, winner of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize.

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The texture of herstory: New Wave Opera’s evening of...

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2025/09/04

NWO presented music on themes of suffragist history, motherhood, and the roles of women in society, and previewed their upcoming “Atoms and Artifacts” presenting operas about Alice Tierney and Marie Curie.

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‘Apple Season’: In an orchard, escaping the trauma of...

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2025/09/04

Review: In E.M. Lewis's moving and masterfully written new play at 21ten Theatre, a brother and sister return to the scene of their fraught childhood and face down the demons.

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An electric current: OrpheusPDX’s production of...

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2025/09/03

Luna Pearl Woolf and Royce Vavrek’s setting of the life of cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

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Richard Cutshall’s ‘Return to the Fool’s Garden’ at...

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2025/09/03

Each piece in the Portland artist’s show, which runs through Sept. 26 at the McMinnville university, is a snapshot of a fever dream. Sometimes, he says, making them “almost feels like a fight.”

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A real hoot: Niel DePonte’s Concerts in the Barn

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2025/09/02

Three weeks of “combo concerts” at Butler Barn in Tualatin Valley combined different musical styles to celebrate summer.

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DramaWatch: Let the season begin! Fall shows are...

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2025/09/02

This weekend, Bag&Baggage’s reimagined "The Glass Menagerie" and Speculative Drama’s immersive "Pericles" are opening. Plus other new and continuing shows and theater news.

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Tryon Creek’s new Education Pavilion: A home for...

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2025/09/02

The $2.6 million pavilion, set to open Sept. 20, is designed after Chinook Plankhouses and will offer two large classrooms for environmental and cultural programs.

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VizArts Monthly: September learning

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2025/09/01

Art exhibits opening this month offer viewers the opportunity to challenge their preconceived ideas about space, memory, history, and even water.

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Linda Austin’s Performance Works Northwest celebrates...

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2025/09/01

Playing with the words of theater experimentalist Richard Foreman, Austin and a host of fellow performers celebrate a quarter-century of cutting-edge dance in Portland.

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For Labor Day, the art of work

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2025/09/01

As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.

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There’ll be a ‘Hot’ time in the old town this week

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2025/09/01

The Broadway tour of the hit musical "Some Like It Hot" swings into Portland starting Tuesday, and understudy Bryan Thomas Hunt is coming to his home town with it.

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September DanceWatch: PICA’s TBA Festival and a...

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2025/08/31

From the Time-Based Art Festival to Griot, flamenco, classic dance of India, the legendary Deborah Hay, the Portland Dance Film Fest, Grand Kyiv Ballet's "Swan Lake" and much more, the fall dance season gets off with a bang.

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‘Inebria Me’: A telenovela of a folk opera

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2025/08/31

Liberating from repression: Composer San Cha's opera, premiering at Portland's TBA Festival, finds its inspiration in over-the-top Mexican soap operas.

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Oregon Cabaret Theatre: Raising the curtain with a...

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2025/08/30

Ashland’s high-flying popular company, thriving after 10 years under Rick Robinson and Val Rachelle's leadership, honors its origins as it prepares to launch its 41st season.

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City seeks applicants for Keller & PSU performance...

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2025/08/30

An 11-member panel is sought to help decide how and whether to proceed with plans for two Broadway musical-sized halls, together budgeted for at least $594 million.

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