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Jen Silverman and the season of the ‘Witch’

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2025/10/11

The playwright and novelist's tale, riffing off a Jacobean tragicomedy about community and outcasts, takes "risks with humor, and what can be funny” at Profile Theatre.

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Portland Poetry Confluence brings poets working on...

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2025/10/10

The inaugural event drew scores of writers to panels, readings, and workshops for “a sort of rhizomatic network among communities,” says one organizer.

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Music News: Leaders, companies, and arts in transition

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2025/10/10

Big changes are underway at Portland Opera, Oregon Bach Festival, the Britt Festival and more.

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Schools receiving Portland Arts Tax funding begin...

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2025/10/10

The framework will access staffing, quality of facilities, and other factors that impact the quality of elementary school arts education.

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Oregon public media respond to Trump budget cuts

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2025/10/09

The dismantling of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting puts public radio and TV stations across the nation in a financial bind. In Oregon, stations are seeking fresh funding sources, and rural stations are hit the hardest.

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FilmWatch Weekly: ‘Orwell: 2+2=5,’ ‘Tron: Ares,’ ‘A...

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2025/10/09

Filmmaker Raoul Peck's portrait of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" draws comparisons between Orwell's prescient social criticism and today's political climate.

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‘Primary Trust’: Comedy and undercurrents

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2025/10/09

Review: Portland Center Stage kicks off its season with Eboni Booth's 2024 Pulitzer winner, featuring Larry Owens of "Abbott Elementary" as a surprising and complex hero.

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To probe too deeply can ruin the pleasure of...

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2025/10/09

LOoP celebrates its 10th season with a production of the least “topsy-turvy” G&S musical.

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Review: Complexions’ dances of life

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2025/10/09

In a three-night run at Portland's Keller Auditorium, the contemporary ballet troupe reflected growth, change, humor, and a welcome energy of joy.

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Work of 10 mural artists brightens once-drab concrete...

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2025/10/08

The work, with the theme "All Things Newport," includes lighthouses, bridges, tsunami warning signs, and hummingbirds.

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Oregon writers Karen Russell and Omar El Akkad among...

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2025/10/08

Two Seattle writers, Claudia Rowe and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega, round out the Northwest representation among award finalists.

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Fear No Music runs the marathon!

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2025/10/08

The experts of new music in Oregon presented what ended up being five hours of music composed in the Pacific Northwest.

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Frothy fun: Artists Repertory’s sex farce ‘The Bed...

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2025/10/08

Keiko Green’s contemporary Shakespearean riff of a play, set in a college dorm, keeps the mood mostly light in Artists Rep's entertaining season-opener.

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Eugene-based Quiltfolk celebrates the color and...

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2025/10/08

Each issue of the 8-year-old quarterly magazine focuses on a different state or region, with handsome photography, clean layout -- and no ads.

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From Astoria with song: Minntah Haefker on the Oregon...

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2025/10/08

A young singer travels between home and the wider world.

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DramaWatch: A spicy brew of new plays, season...

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2025/10/07

Mikki Gillette’s first musical premieres at Fuse Theatre Ensemble, while Shaking the Tree Theatre stages a dancing rebellion. Plus the Stage Fright Festival, other opening shows, continuing shows and theater news.

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The last days of summer: 45th Parallel’s backyard...

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2025/10/06

The 45|| string quartet, led by Ron Blessinger, performed Glass’s “Third String Quartet” (drawn from his score to the film “Mishima”) as well as his mature “Fifth String Quartet.”

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Portland arts organizations challenge Trump’s attack...

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2025/10/05

As the president deploys a host of California National Guard troops to the heart of Oregon's biggest city, downtown arts groups large and small report steady rises in attendance, though not yet to pre-pandemic levels.

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Different branches of the same tree: A conversation...

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2025/10/04

The longtime arts administrator, opera singer, and flamenco dancer discusses the role of administrative work in keeping the arts alive.

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In a Detroit music club in 1949, a Black Paradise...

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2025/10/04

Portland Playhouse's not-to-be-missed production of Dominique Morisseau’s brilliant "Paradise Blue" sets a private drama against the larger cultural crisis of a thriving Black community on the brink of being demolished.

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