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DramaWatch: The Fertile Ground Connection

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2025/11/04

Former festival producers are spreading their roots and wings this month with new and revised productions. Plus: Season openers from Third Rail Rep and Corrib Theatre.

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Beams of light: Resonance Ensemble and Fear No Music...

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2025/11/04

Two of Portland’s most respected contemporary musical arts organizations joined forces at Benson Auditorium for their portion of Oregon Symphony’s ongoing “Sounds Like Portland Festival.”

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An ethereal architecture: In Mulieribus presents “All...

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2025/11/04

The women’s vocal ensemble sang music by Holst, Pärt, Reich, Carol J. Jones, Joanne Metcalfe, Olivia Sparkhall, and Shruthi Rajasekhar, on texts from Julian of Norwich and the Rig Veda to Pirkei Avot and the Psalms.

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Portland Book Festival: In ‘So Far Gone,’ Jess Walter...

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2025/11/04

The Spokane writer talks about journalism, paranoia, and being a hopeful satirist.

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ArtsWatch Insider: Cover-to-cover coverage of the...

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2025/11/04

The city's legendary literary reputation goes full stop for the annual book festival, and ArtsWatch will have the stories to match.

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Portland Book Festival: In ‘Written in the Waters,’...

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2025/11/03

The National Geographic podcaster and author’s diving journey led to an exploration of her identity as a Black American descended from Africans seized by slave traders.

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Portland Book Festival: Jill Lepore’s ‘We the People’...

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2025/11/02

The Harvard professor and prolific author argues that the daunting odds against amendment have prompted reformers to work through the courts or legislation.

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Future emerging: Four young classical musicians win...

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2025/11/01

The teen winners each get a $1,000 scholarship and will perform with professional musicians in the chatterPDX Sunday musical series.

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Welcome to our first edition of ArtsWatch Insider

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2025/11/01

We have some new features in store for the next two months to celebrate the season of giving and thanks.

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As federal funding slashes cut deep, Oregon arts...

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2025/10/31

The Trump Administration's assault on arts, culture, and the humanities has hit arts groups hard in the pocketbook. The fight for free expression could end up in the Supreme Court.

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‘Clint: The Man and The Movies’: Shawn Levy’s latest...

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2025/10/31

The Portland author's 560-page biography of the Hollywood icon has received rave reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker.

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Keeping Portland Odd: Sounds Like Portland festival,...

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2025/10/30

The three-week festival of Portland music, sponsored and curated by Oregon Symphony and Gabriel Kahane, comes to a conclusion with The Decemberists, Dandy Warhols, and the complete string quartets of Caroline Shaw.

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FilmWatch Weekly: Yorgos & Emma keep going with...

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2025/10/30

Also this week: the Australian animated film "Lesbian Space Princess," Colin Farrell in "Ballad of a Small Player" on Netflix, and "Mr. Scorsese" on Apple TV.

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Schneider Museum at Southern Oregon University loses...

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2025/10/30

Plans for a major expansion of the art museum are shelved, and its future is unsure: "You kind of feel like the rug was pulled from underneath you," the museum's director says.

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‘Understand history, create empathy’: Telling the...

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2025/10/30

In the OPB documentary "Uncovering Boarding Schools" premiering Nov. 3, members of the Klamath Tribes of Southern Oregon uncover hidden stories and a legacy of resistance and resilience.

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A different kind of satisfaction: Catching up with...

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2025/10/30

The clarinetist-composer discusses the Sunday morning chamber music series he co-founded with cellist Trevor Fitzpatrick.

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‘What We Hold & Leave Behind’: Personal artifacts...

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2025/10/30

Poet Willa Schneberg and photographer Jim Lommasson enlisted 20 senior poets for the project, a Cover to Cover event combining a reading and slide show.

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November DanceWatch: From Dracula to Dia de los...

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2025/10/29

The month's dance calendar also includes Balinese dance, a "Sleeping Beauty" with lights, Barcelona's RUNA, push/FOLD's "Catalysts," "Enchanted Toyshop" and more.

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Preview: Eugene Ballet’s ‘Dracula’

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2025/10/29

Suzanne Haag’s full-length world-premiere reimagines Dracula with a film noir theme, multi-media scenery, and gravity-defying choreography.

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Lauren Modica-Soloway: Beyond ‘Witch’

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2025/10/29

As the Portland actress approaches the final week in the title role of Profile Theatre's hit show, she looks back on the highs and lows of her creative career and her return to the stage from a five-year hiatus.

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