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A Conversation with David Danzmayr about the 2023/24 Season
By Elizabeth Schwartz Music Director David Danzmayr is smiling a lot these days. After almost two full seasons conducting concerts with the Oregon Symphony, David is forging strong, empathetic...
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SF Ballet: Meet Basil Twist – The MacArthur Genius Who Brings A Magical Tree...
San Francisco Ballet in Wheeldon’s Cinderella© // © Erik Tomasson Basil Twist, a puppeteer, defines that term broadly—as bringing inanimate objects to life. His genius (and he has the receipts,...
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Literary Arts is Thrilled to Announce This Year’s Oregon Book Awards Winners
Literary Arts is thrilled to announce this year’s Oregon Book Awards winners. Thirty-four Oregonians across seven genre categories were chosen as finalists by panels of out-of-state judges, from a...
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Oregon Ballet Theatre: Luaren Lovette On Creating Space, Setting A Tone, And...
By Gavin Larsen “I love problems. Love them!” says Lauren Lovette. “The more the better. I’m kind of always in a state of curiosity. I love pushing my brain into new ideas. That’s just my personality...
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Oregon Ballet Theatre 2023/2024 Season Announcement
Welcome to OBT’s 2023/24 Season! From the return of Christopher Stowell’s Swan Lake to the OBT premiere of Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan and Artistic Director Danielle Rowe’s 1920’s era romantic drama,...
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In Ballet Idaho’s Swan Lake, Anne Mueller Empowers the Swans, and Garrett...
by Cassie Mrozinski Delicate. Ethereal. Fearful. These words most likely come to mind when you think of the iconic ballet Swan Lake. Known for its powerful score by Tchaikovsky and its intricate...
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San Francisco Ballet Announces First Season Under The Direction of Tamara Rojo
© San Francisco Ballet // Sarah Van Patten and Daniel Deivison-Oliveira in McGregor’s Chroma // © Erik Tomasson San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) today announced its 2024 season filled with premieres,...
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5th Avenue Theatre: Letter From The Director
The challenge of humanity is to be good. But it is far easier (and sometimes alluring) to give way to our animalistic impulses. In this production, we have set out to explore what happens when humans...
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Peak Tours and Transit Launches a Touring Club for Locals
Find out what makes Portland the remarkable and beautiful, progressive and controversial city it is! Peak Tours and Transit if offering six unique tours, highlighting some of the history that makes...
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Oregon Symphony’s Aaron Diehl
“It’s such a luxury to do something that you love. If you’re fortunate to pick a vocation, something that you’re called to do, and make a living doing it on any level, I think that is a supreme...
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A Love Letter to Women Everywhere
New works uplifting women’s voices through song will be performed in Portland in May. First, we have award-winning composer Jessica Meyer’s new work, Because I Will Not Despair, set to poems by...
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Portland Center Stage | A MOST LAMENTABLE COMEDY: The Play-Within-a-Play
Samuel Cousins, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Kamilah Bush, PCS Literary Manager Though not invented by William Shakespeare, the “play-within-a-play” is famously employed by the Bard in several of his...
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Siren Songs | SUMMER at The Old Church Concert Hall
Portland, OR-based performers Jenn Grinels and Merideth Kaye Clark of the folk/Americana duo Siren Songs present the second season in their Siren Songs | SEASONS concert series. Siren Songs will...
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Red Velvet at Bag&Baggage Productions
Bag&Baggage Productions, Hillsboro’s resident professional theater company, reckons with the history of black representation in the theater with their regional premiere of Red Velvet by Olivier...
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents a colorful retelling of the story of Joseph, his coat of many colors, and his fantastical ability to interpret dreams in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
What happens when The Ugly Duckling grows up to be a REALLY Ugly Duck? Will the wolf EVER catch up to Little Red Running Shorts? And does ANYONE catch the Stinky Cheese Man (and do they want to!?)...
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Broadway Rose Theatre Presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Timeless Classic
Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beautifully lush Cinderella, a family-friendly musical featuring the enchanting new Broadway adaptation of one of the most beloved love...
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Isaac Thompson Announced as the Oregon Symphony’s Next President and Chief...
The Oregon Symphony Board of Directors today announces the appointment of Isaac Thompson as the Oregon Symphony’s next President and Chief Executive Officer. The leadership succession is the result of...
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Broadway Rose Announces 2024 Season
Musicals celebrate dreams and dreamers. Through song and dance, costumes and characters, we can glean inspiration from the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears of stories shared. Broadway Rose Theatre...
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Artists Repertory Theatre Announces Strategic Suspension of Production for...
This news comes as we were set to begin rehearsals for Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Christopher Chitto, which was to be mounted at both the University of Portland and the Center for Native Arts and...
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