Cappella Romana and Portland Baroque: Ancient Voices, Fresh Energy
Two Portland ensembles have turned the city into an unlikely capital of very old music, performed very much alive. Cappella Romana, founded in 1991, is...
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Oregon Children’s Theatre: Where Portland Kids Catch the Acting Bug
For many Portland kids, the first standing ovation of their lives happens at Oregon Children’s Theatre. The region’s flagship theatre for young audiences, OCT stages...
Portland Playhouse: Theatre With Heart in a King Neighborhood Church
In a former church in Portland’s historically Black King neighborhood, Portland Playhouse has built one of the city’s most joyful stages. Since 2008, the company’s...
White Bird: Bringing the World’s Dance to Portland
Portland dances with the world thanks to White Bird, the Northwest’s leading presenter of contemporary dance since 1997. Season after season, White Bird lands companies...
PICA and the Time-Based Art Festival: Portland’s Edge of Tomorrow
If Portland art has a research lab, it’s PICA — the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Since 1995, PICA has championed the experimental: performance, installation,...
Blue Sky Gallery: Photography’s Northwest Home Since 1975
Before the Pearl District was galleries and lofts, it had Blue Sky. Founded in 1975 by a collective of young photographers, the Oregon Center for...
Artists Repertory Theatre: Bold Plays in an Intimate Room
Portland’s longest-running professional theatre company, Artists Repertory Theatre, has been the city’s risk-taker since 1982. Its intimate downtown stages host the plays everyone talks about...
Portland: America’s Comics Capital Draws On
Ask where American comics are made and the answer increasingly is: Portland. The metro area hosts Dark Horse Comics in Milwaukie (publisher of Hellboy and...
Portland Book Festival: The City That Reads, Celebrates
Portland’s favorite statistic might be its bookstores per capita — and each November, Literary Arts turns that love into the Portland Book Festival, the largest...
Hollywood Theatre: Portland’s Movie Palace With a Mission
Its neon tower has glowed over Sandy Boulevard since 1926, and the Hollywood Theatre remains Portland’s grandest argument that movies deserve a palace. Run by...
