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‘Life of Pi:’ A shipwreck and a tiger’s tale

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2025/04/10

‘Life of Pi:’ A shipwreck and a tiger’s tale Linda FergusonThe Broadway in Portland show at Keller Auditorium sates our hunger for spectacle by offering a sumptuous feast of projections and puppetry.

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Singing is service: From Beethoven to Barbershop

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2025/04/09

Singing is service: From Beethoven to Barbershop Daryl BrowneAlso this month: Requiems, lamentations, yelling, Alzheimer’s stories, and more.

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Oregon Ballet Theatre’s ‘Marilyn’, the consideration...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/04/09

Oregon Ballet Theatre’s ‘Marilyn’, the consideration of icons, and the influence of old Hollywood Amy Leona HavinDani Rowe's world-premiere ballet about the life and times of Marilyn Monroe moves through space deftly as it grapples with her legend and the men who surrounded her.

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Spark Plug: Taking risks, building trust

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2025/04/09

Spark Plug: Taking risks, building trust Brett CampbellLoading its sets in and out of a coffee shop via U-Haul with each performance, the intimate theater collective brings new and homegrown theater works to Beaverton.

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The Toni’s: Eugene Ballet presents a Toni Pimble...

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2025/04/09

The Toni’s: Eugene Ballet presents a Toni Pimble retrospective Jean ZondervanOn Saturday, April 12, the company pays special tribute to Eugene Ballet’s founder and longtime artistic director, presenting five works, choreographed and selected by Pimble herself, which reflect her long career in dance.

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Steve Ehret: Here there be humors

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2025/04/07

Steve Ehret: Here there be humors Patrick CollierEhret's monster-filled compositions both represent demons and exorcise them. Patrick Collier reviews "Resting my Bones" at The Art Center in Corvallis.

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Portland Panorama: an ambitious new film festival debuts

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2025/04/07

Portland Panorama: an ambitious new film festival debuts Brian LibbyWith international and local fare, features and shorts, organizers of Panorama, which runs April 10-20, hope to fill the void left by numerous discontinued fests.

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Introducing the ‘Not on View’ project

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2025/04/07

Introducing the ‘Not on View’ project Laurel Reed PavicStorage is often a repository for items that institutions or individuals would rather ignore. What can we learn about what we'd rather hide away?

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Poet Q&A: Jennifer Perrine on formalism in poetry,...

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2025/04/07

Poet Q&A: Jennifer Perrine on formalism in poetry, finding inspiration in grief, and writing as healing David BatesThe Portland poet will read Thursday at the McMinnville Public Library, in advance of their new collection, "Beautiful Outlaw."

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Drew Pisarra: How (and why) I updated Oscar Wilde’s...

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2025/04/06

Drew Pisarra: How (and why) I updated Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’ for Imago Theatre Drew PisarraWilde's wildly witty 1890s play, a scandal in its time, is rooted in 19th century melodrama. Pisarra's adaptation, opening April 11, keeps that in mind.

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Never stop developing: The neo-Romantic music of...

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2025/04/05

Never stop developing: The neo-Romantic music of Andrew Lewinter Matthew Neil AndrewsA conversation with the Eugene lawyer, horn player, and composer.

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The Cultural Landscape: National Poetry Month

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2025/04/05

The Cultural Landscape: National Poetry Month K.B. DixonPhotographer K.B. Dixon captures the visual light of Oregon poets Judith Barrington, Brian S. Ellis, Genevieve DeGuzman, Carlos Reyes, and Valerie Witte.

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Two Spirit and Third Gender: More than entertainment

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2025/04/04

Two Spirit and Third Gender: More than entertainment Dee MooreAn exhibit and performances in Monmouth are both drag show and protests in favor of Indigenous Queer acceptance and against the effects of climate change.

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High times, low comedy: Theatre in the Grove’s...

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2025/04/04

High times, low comedy: Theatre in the Grove’s ‘Reefer Madness: The Musical’ spoofs drug war hysteria Brett CampbellCampy modern musical adaptation of the notorious 1936 film brings illegal giggles to Forest Grove.

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The war on thought: This time it hits the National...

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2025/04/04

The war on thought: This time it hits the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oregon Humanities Bob HicksThe Trump Administration's latest budgetary amputation cuts down the national agency in support of humanities programs, a deep slash that affects affiliates in Oregon and across the nation.

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FilmWatch Weekly: Pedro Pascal in ‘Freaky Tales,’...

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2025/04/03

FilmWatch Weekly: Pedro Pascal in ‘Freaky Tales,’ plus Matt Dillon as Marlon Brando in ‘Being Maria,’ and Naomi Watts loves a dog in ‘The Friend’ Marc MohanThe Tarantinoesque "Freaky Tales" from directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck tells four interconnected stories set on a single day in 1987 Oakland, California.

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Portland writer-director-star Anna Campbell discusses...

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2025/04/03

Portland writer-director-star Anna Campbell discusses her impressive debut film ‘Nora’ Marc MohanAfter its world premiere last month at a San Jose festival, the new musical film now comes to Campbell's hometown for a weeklong run at Portland's Living Room Theaters.

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Portland essayist William Deresiewicz talks good...

Oregon ArtsWatch ·

2025/04/02

Portland essayist William Deresiewicz talks good news, bad news, and the effect of solitude Amy Leona HavinThe author of "The Death of the Artist" and "The End of Solitude" says social media "doesn’t let you be alone. It takes away your solitude" and becomes a compulsive need for feedback.

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Every performance space a type of temple: Fahad...

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2025/04/02

Every performance space a type of temple: Fahad Siadat’s “Samā” with Third Angle New Music Charles RoseSiadat and dancers André Megerdichian and Jennifer Deckert performed the Sufi-inspired multimedia art piece at the A-WOL dance collective.

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LEGO, vampires, cruise ships & Quonset huts: Q&A with...

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2025/04/02

LEGO, vampires, cruise ships & Quonset huts: Q&A with Skylab Architecture’s Jeff Kovel Brian LibbyFrom its distinctive new headquarters, one of Portland’s most dynamic architecture firms looks beyond buildings.

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