PODCAST

Oregon ArtsWatch

Arts & Culture News

All Episodes

Falling in love with music: A conversation with...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/03

Mitchell, now in his fourth season with the Central Oregon summer festival, discusses how his background as a composer informs his approach to conducting, why performing in Sunriver feels like coming home, and the immersive future of classical concerts.

en-US

Happy little clusters: Chamber Music Northwest’s...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/03

This year’s string of concerts featuring young string players and pianists culminates in two free events this weekend.

en-US

FilmWatch Weekly: ScarJo vs. dinos in ‘Jurassic...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/03

The half-hearted seventh installment in the "Jurassic Park" franchise heads a trio of new movies featuring all manner of bloodthirsty enemies, from dinosaurs and cannibals to a corrupt for-profit health care company.

en-US

A long, strange trip: Birder and ArtsWatcher Lorin...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/03

From Oregon through Colorado and Utah to Fort Worth and back, with a report on the famous piano competition and its medalists.

en-US

A farewell to All Classical Radio’s Suzanne Nance and...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/02

Nance, the visionary chief executive of one of Oregon’s most adventurous arts organizations, will leave Portland to direct a major European opera festival in Ireland.

en-US

DramaWatch: A Bard-a-licious summer of Shakespeare

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/02

The Bard’s work is on outdoor and indoor stages all over, with the return of Portland Actors Ensemble, shows by Original Practice Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and more. Plus: Other openings, continuing shows, upcoming season news.

en-US

In Estacada, come for the murals, stay for The Book Nook

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/02

The nonprofit used bookstore is as much about community as it is about bargain books.

en-US

Opinion: Why storytelling and the National Endowment...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/01

Stories shape us, and the endowment – facing elimination by the Trump administration – helps us tell our culturally important tales. You can help keep the federal and Oregon endowments and other crucial agencies alive.

en-US

VizArts Monthly: This land is . . .

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/01

July may start with a holiday week but plenty of Oregon galleries and venues have new shows to consider and enjoy.

en-US

LitWatch July: Summer Fishtrap and the Bigfoot Poetry...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/07/01

Authors appearing around the state will talk about the female body and evolution, hikes around Mount Hood and the Columbia River Gorge, and Jack Kerouac's Buddhist years.

en-US

Heaven on earth: A history of University of Oregon’s...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/30

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the concert hall, the well-tuned home of many Oregon Bach Festival concerts.

en-US

‘Waitress’: A fresh recipe for a musical

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/30

Broadway Rose’s "Waitress" successfully blends music and magical realism with a strong message about female empowerment.

en-US

In the heart of Oregon wine country, a hotel gathers...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/30

McMinnville's Atticus Hotel, in partnership with Linfield University's Creative Writing Department, gives Northwest authors time and space to meet, mix, and work on their book projects.

en-US

July DanceWatch: An overflow of dances as tempting as...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/29

From Ten Tiny Dances to dancing in the trees, July's lineup bubbles with well-seasoned complexity and frisky flavors.

en-US

Let the sun shine through: Metropolitan Youth...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/27

MYS hit all the right notes, with several alumni – including spalding – joining in for its season finale and half-century celebration.

en-US

‘Aw, Hell’: PETE puts a free-flowing comic...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/27

A visit to the horrors of tech week in the Underworld, which despite the hellishness of the play's plot seems to be settling in quite comfortably, thank you very much.

en-US

Waldport retiree finds new passion in creating...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/27

Craig Williams creates an award-winning short film about finding and adopting his dog, Buffy.

en-US

Stage & Studio: Olga Kravtsova’s ‘Harvest of Woman’

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/26

Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her podcast with the Russian-born performer about her immigrant experience and her show about "women’s unseen labor, endurance, and survival.”

en-US

Portland’s Office of Arts and Culture adds funding...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/26

Despite the city’s budget woes, the office found an additional $170,000 to help arts organizations with basic operating costs.

en-US

FilmWatch Weekly: Iranian sports drama ‘Tatami,’...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/06/26

Also this week: the bizarre road comedy "Sunlight" at Salem Cinema, plus Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney in "Everything's Going to be Great."

en-US

1,527 results