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Stage & Studio: Chris and Scarlett, together (again?)

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2025/05/27

Comedian/actor Chris Grace talks on Dmae Lo Roberts' Stage & Studio podcast about race, who gets to play what roles, and his solo turn at Portland Center Stage in "Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson."

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Footloose about the town: Classical Up Close hits its...

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2025/05/26

For the 12th year, a merry band of roving Oregon Symphony musicians spills out of the concert hall and into churches, libraries, community centers and book stores, taking their music to the places where the people are.

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BodyVox’s bubbly Bardic double feature

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2025/05/24

The dance company's trademark humor (and Champagne for the audience) bring some welcome fizz to reimaginings of "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

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Ambiguities and complexities and contradictions: Fear...

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2025/05/23

Diversifying and demystifying the Oregon School of Composition with FNM’s “Locally Sourced Sounds” season.

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Two solo shows with heart, humor & sting

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2025/05/23

In review: Damaris Webb goes camping in "Precipice: re-membering, forgetting, and claiming home"; comic actor Chris Grace cuts to racial realities in "Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johannson."

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La risata final: Portland Opera laughs into the 19th...

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2025/05/22

PO’s setting of Verdi’s Shakespearean palimpsest transferred the beloved opera to a 1980s country club, swimming pool and all.

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Learning to adapt: Lou Harrison’s American Gamelan...

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2025/05/22

One of the three existing replica sets of Harrison’s just-intoned metallophones is on loan to PSU, and will be showcased June 1 in a performance of “Suite for Violin and American Gamelan.”

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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Pavements’ rocks, while ‘Mission:...

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2025/05/22

Also this week: the Korean drama "A Normal Family," "Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted," and "The Cinema Within," a documentary about the psychology of film editing.

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Miller Foundation kicks off Round Two of its $1.5...

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2025/05/22

Twenty mid-career literary and media artists will receive $25,000 each. Plus: A trio of visual artists win $35,000 Hallie Ford fellowships; 29 artists share $97,000+ from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation.

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Cascadia Composers: Looking for sounds in all the...

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2025/05/21

In the concert "Found Sounds," composers and players discover percussive possibilities by whacking and smacking all sorts of everyday non-instruments.

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DramaWatch: Gather ye rosebuds while it’s May (and June)

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2025/05/20

Despite funding cuts, vibrant stories are busting out all over, from "The Book of Mormon" to Ten Fifteen’s "Again! The Art of Perfection" to "Assassins" and other continuing shows.

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Nearly a century ago, Oregon writer Sheba Hargreaves...

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2025/05/20

The author of ‘The Cabin at the Trail’s End’ strove to convey a more authentic West than that depicted by popular novelists Owen Wister, Zane Grey, and Max Brand.

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McMinnville’s out-of-this-world parade

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2025/05/20

In 1950 a photo of a possible UFO hovering in the Yamhill County sky swept the nation. In the 21st century, space-visitor wannabes strut their stuff once a year in celebration.

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Michelle Grabner: Elevating the familiar

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2025/05/19

In 'Underdone Potato', an expansive exhibition at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Grabner continues her meditations on craft and daily life. Ham tins, jam jars, and cereal boxes all make an appearance.

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Ripples on the surface of the water: Deena T....

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2025/05/17

Flutists Zach Galatis and Alicia DiDontano Paulsen took center stage in a concert of impressionist music by the two composers, one Oregonian and one Japanese-French.

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RACC names its next executive director

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2025/05/17

Patricia Rojas, chosen after a national search by the Regional Arts & Culture Council as it transitions from a string of setbacks, will begin her new job August 1.

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In Yamhill County, poetry and prose bloom in annual...

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2025/05/17

More than 200 people gathered at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg to hear writers read their work appearing in the 32nd annual anthology.

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International guitar sounds heat up Siskiyou Music...

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2025/05/17

The Jazz in the Vineyard series brings guitarists Mimi Fox and Derek Gripper, plus the Marcos Silva Quintet, to Ashland's Grizzly Peak Winery stage beginning May 25.

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A complete ecosystem of music: Discussing the Oregon...

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2025/05/16

The composer lays out the history, mission, and philosophy of the OBFCS, now in its 30th year bringing together composer-performers.

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The making of: Two groundbreaking Portland artists,...

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2025/05/16

A look inside the making of Triffle's "Happyness (The Wrecking Ball)" and Webb's "Precipice: re-remembering, forgetting, and claiming home."

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