Holmes renovation: a classic twist
Valarie Smith
July 30, 2021
At the JAW New Play Fest, playwright Kate Hamill takes her updated Watson & Holmes mystery for a trial spin.
At the JAW New Play Fest, playwright Kate Hamill takes her updated Watson & Holmes mystery for a trial spin.
Renegade Opera’s “Orfeo in Underland” chronicles a tragic and transcendent journey to the afterlife.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about “Lorelei,” creative laureates & more.
A new movie of a very old tale creates a world of foreboding, romanticism, and sometimes cheeky fun.
Making a compelling movie about “folks who don’t normally get the Hollywood, or even the ‘Portlandia,’ treatment.”
After COVID and wildfires, Yaacov Bergman felt compelled to recognize the pain, as well as the courage.
August’s offerings draw inspiration from diverse areas of lived experience, a refreshing respite from the slow dog days of summer.
A Portland gathering honors the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Here’s what one of her best friends had to say.
From world premieres to brilliant performances, highlights of July’s Chamber Music Northwest Festival.
Portland’s new creative laureates, Leila Haile and Joaquin Lopez, talk about the state of the arts.
As the world begins to waken, K.B. Dixon and his camera rediscover the pleasures of an arts & crafts fair.
Imago takes Carol Triffle’s newest play offstage and onto radio. A cast member explores how and why they dunnit.
Jenn Grinels and Merideth Kaye Clark discuss the concert version of a musical about a woman who fought in the Civil War.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
push/FOLD gets back to performing with a rethinking of a recent dance, “Early,” for a Mexico City festival.
Third Angle is coming out swinging for the return to live music, kicking off on July 11 at Topaz Farm with the three mini concerts of Fresh Air Fest. It was a much-needed retreat up to Sauvie Island for a midsummer Sunday
Director Amy Dotson is refreshing and reshaping the art museum’s movie program, from Tik-Tok to rooftops.
Stacy Jo Scott’s work in “Lo, A Vase in the Dark” explores the potential for technology to help us understand past, present, and future selves.
Priti Gandhi, who comes from Minnesota Opera, will be one of the few top woman artistic leaders in the opera world.
And in Lincoln City, a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 becomes a gallery for landscape paintings.
The new “Vesper Flight” is inspired by the soar of Vaux swifts, who alight in Portland every year.
The 28th annual anthology features the work of adults and children in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
The chamber music festival’s brilliant version of “Appalachian Spring” will also be available to view from home.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
Nicolas Cage amid the truffles; Anthony Bourdain for real; Isabelle Huppert in a darkly comic tale.
1122 Outside may be the perfect post-pandemic panacea. It is a venue for showing art but equally an artist-centered, anti-capitalist community space.
The story of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams and Portland photographer Stu Levy.
Art Beyond, organized by the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, invites viewers to venture out of the gallery and into the beyond.
Stage & Studio: The NY Times best-selling author talks about her Portland roots and Mixed-Race identity.
Nehalem resident Paul Letersky’s new book describes working for “the greatest bureaucrat of all time.”
A singer grapples with Alzheimer’s in the new chamber opera “A Song by Mahler” at Chamber Music Northwest.
A California pianist and activist brings music and an urgent sense of the present to the Oregon Bach Festival.
With their art gallery space on the market, owners are moving the business to Florence’s bayfront.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state’s art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more
Third Angle moves out of the dark days with Sunday’s Fresh Air Fest on a Sauvie Island farm.
On an overcast morning last March, Dr. Lisa Neher took to the streets of Tigard to film a short opera she had composed called Momentum.
As the movie world opens up, a couple of made-for-big-screen features wind up on home screens instead.
Five birdhouse-like boxes in Manzanita prove that good things do indeed come in small packages.
Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres’s “Color Burn” at Well Well Projects celebrates maximalism and artificiality.
In a time of cultural and climate meltdown, are literary artists predicting the history of what’s to come?
Colorful banners hanging from downtown lamp posts are the Alsea Bay Center for the Arts’ first project.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
In the opening remarks at last week’s Makrokosmos festival, pianist and co-Artistic-Director Saar Ahuvia said, “live music is finally back.” That is true, with an asterisk.
Oregon’s literary scene sails through the heat with open mics, workshops, and virtual author readings.
July’s art offerings provide plenty of opportunities to beat the heat and see art in alternative spaces.
The revival of a landmark 1969 Harlem music festival is a brilliant cultural and artistic feat; theaters reopen doors.
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