Shannon Gormley

Tickets For The Portland Staging of “Hamilton” Are Going For Over $3,000 On Resale Sites

Ever since its impending Portland arrival was announced over a year ago, Hamilton has become the city’s most anticipated theater show in recent years, and arguably of all time.

New Owner of Harvey’s Comedy Club Has A Criminal Record of Domestic Violence

Three weeks ago, the club was then bought by former Harvey’s manager Jeff Kafoury and Doug Peach, a former parole officer and president of a security company. In 2007, Peach was convicted of fourth degree assault of his then-girlfriend.

These 11 Portland Shops Can Outfit You for Your Mount Hood Adventures

This time of year, gear becomes crucial to enjoying the outdoors in Oregon.

“An Octoroon” Questions Everything, Including Our Cultural Lexicon For Discussing Race

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2014 script is a satirization of a 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon. (Jacobs-Jenkins is black; the original playwright, Dion Boucicault, was white.) Wearing whiteface, actor Joseph Gibson plays George, a slave owner who’s just inherited a bankrupt plantation and who’s in love with a woman named Zoe (Alex Ramirez de Cruz). Zoe is in love with him too, but the antebellum South has outlawed their potential marriage because Zoe is one-eighth black.

Artists Speak For Themselves In (self), A Group Art Show In This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival

When you go to an art show, the person who has the most control over how you interpret the works isn’t you or the artist, it’s the curator.

Everyone’s Really Excited About A New Tonya Harding Movie That Takes A Sympathetic View of the Infamous Figure Skater

Starring Margot Robbie as the infamous Olympic figure skater and Portlander, I, Tonya tells the story of the Nancy Kerrigan attack with the help of pseudo-documentary style interviews. It showed up to the TFF without the backing of a distributer, but emerged with a flurry of Coen Brother comparisons and proclamations that it’s destined for Oscar nominations.

A Play About a Mass Shooting Survivor, Brand-New Works by Latino and Latino Playwrights and 3 Other Must-See Theater Events This Fall

The 5 coolest theater events happening this season.

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Shannon Gormley

Tickets For The Portland Staging of “Hamilton” Are Going For Over $3,000 On Resale Sites

New Owner of Harvey’s Comedy Club Has A Criminal Record of Domestic Violence

These 11 Portland Shops Can Outfit You for Your Mount Hood Adventures

“An Octoroon” Questions Everything, Including Our Cultural Lexicon For Discussing Race

Artists Speak For Themselves In (self), A Group Art Show In This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival

Everyone’s Really Excited About A New Tonya Harding Movie That Takes A Sympathetic View of the Infamous Figure Skater

Portland Art Institutions Have Been on Shaky Ground This Year. Here’s a List of all the Closings, Openings and Moves

Diasporic African Dance, A Feminist Show Inspired by Scandinavian Myth and 3 Other Must-See Dance Events This Fall

Portland Galleries Are Turning Towards Artists Who Are Challenging The Conventions Of Fine Art

A Play About a Mass Shooting Survivor, Brand-New Works by Latino and Latino Playwrights and 3 Other Must-See Theater Events This Fall

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