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Salem’s Theatre 33 finds a bigger stage

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2025/07/09

The Willamette University-based theater development program expands its offerings, and brings them to Portland this weekend.

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Telling the tale: Fleur Barron and Gloria Chien at...

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2025/07/09

The mezzo-soprano (star of several OBF and Chamber Music Northwest concerts this year) and pianist (co-artistic director of CMNW) delivered a stirring “Liederabend” concert at Beall Hall.

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Listening backward and moving forward: Chen Yi and...

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2025/07/09

The Chinese composers partnered with the Portland classical group for a season-ending concert of music blending Chinese folk music with modern classical music.

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Katherine Murphy Lewis’s ‘From the Ground UP’ plans...

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2025/07/09

Lewis's nonprofit is a home for developing adventurous new performance ranging from dance to physical theater, femme storytelling, clowning, and more.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art showcases Oregon’s foremost...

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2025/07/09

Scholar Roger Saydack has organized the exhibition of more than 40 works by the artist who helped shape America’s view of the West.

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‘C.S. Price: A Portrait’: Roger Saydack’s book is a...

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2025/07/09

The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.

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‘Animation: Script to Screen’ highlights animators...

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2025/07/08

The three-day event at Lakewood Center for the Arts featured characters and objects from Portland-made films "Pinnochio" and "Wendell & Wild" and presentations by Oregon City native Bill Plympton and others.

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What do I like about this? Caroline Shaw discusses...

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2025/07/08

The composer reflects on the playfulness of Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi–and their impact on her recent concerto, performed at Oregon Bach Festival and Chamber Music Northwest this summer.

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More brilliantly shines the beauty: The “Brandenburg...

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2025/07/08

Shunske Sato, violinist and master of Historically Informed Practice, led a wonderfully fresh rendition of Bach’s “six concertos for several instruments” in a collaboration between Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Bach Festival.

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Opinion: ‘You’re an artist? What kind of artist are...

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2025/07/08

A short definition of “too woke” at the Kennedy Center seems to be the presentation of productions that the new chairman (Donald Trump) doesn’t like. Are the arts now a political straw man?

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50 years of quilting: Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show...

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2025/07/08

Jean Wells started the show in 1975 with a handful of quilts hung outside her Stitchin' Post quilt shop. This year's show, July 12, is expected to draw more than 10,000 visitors.

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Waterfront Blues Festival: For a 38th July Fourth...

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2025/07/07

A compact two days of music and celebration bring big crowds to the city's waterfront and a sense of togetherness, get-down-ness and joy as summer kicks in.

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Author Q&A: Rebecca Clarren, winner of a 2025 Oregon...

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2025/07/07

The Portland author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry says writing about her family's history was fantastic, painful — and hard.

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At Florence children’s theater group C.R.O.W., family...

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2025/07/06

Children’s Repertory of Oregon Workshops — C.R.O.W. — offers low-cost classes in dance, musical theater, and performance — not to mention The Tutu Dads.

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Mark Bedard pulls a theatrical hat trick in Rogue...

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2025/07/06

The veteran actor, a longtime favorite at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, returns to Ashland to star in three roles in David Lindsay-Adaire's stage comedy.

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‘I’m Into This Place’: Adriana Baer celebrates the...

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2025/07/06

Bobby Bermea talks with the longtime Portland theater leader about her new podcast focusing on the rich arts and cultural scene in her new home across the Columbia River.

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Washes of color: The “Brandenburg All-Stars” at...

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2025/07/06

CMNW co-directors Soovin Kim and Gloria Chien, mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, violinist Shunske Sato, harpsichordist Kit Armstrong, and other stellar musicians joined forces to perform Bach, Mendelssohn, and Mahler.

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MusicWatch Monthly: Strong as life

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2025/07/05

Enjoying music in the Late Anthropocene, from CMNW and OBF to Cascadia Composers and Puppeteers for Fears.

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From newsroom to canvas: Art Van Kraft shifts his...

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2025/07/04

The broadcast journalist and NPR news director shifted to visual stories after moving to Ashland nine years ago. This month his art is at Langford Art Gallery in Phoenix.

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13 arts and culture groups in line for $8.275 million...

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2025/07/04

The bill, awaiting the governor's signature, allocates money around the state. A measure that would have merged the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust did not pass.

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