Performance When Chris Coleman announced at the beginning of summer that he would set his season-opening production of Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows’ musical masterpiece in the Depression-era New York of th ...   More

Performance A quest for diversity is not what drives San Francisco dancemaker Alonzo King, although he has paired his ballet dancers with such artistically divergent collaborators as tabla master Zakir Hussain, f ...   More

Performance It’s stifling in the theater, maybe 85 degrees, and onstage a man in a Ronald McDonald wig holds a damp flag bandana to his mouth and huffs himself into a stupor. This comes as no surprise. In t ...   More

Performance If the victim in Akira Kurosawa’s film crime classic Rashōmon had been a child and the witnesses limited to two, it might have resembled David Harrower’s unbearably horrid Blackbird. ...   More

Performance It looks more like FEMA than fine art: A dozen performers in orange T-shirts and khaki slacks mill around a gray corrugated-steel shipping container plopped in the parking lot of Northeast 82nd Avenue ...   More

Performance We’ve lost a good one: Kristan Seemel, one Portland’s most promising young directors, is leaving this month to spend three years as one of just two students in Brown University and Trinity ...   More

Performance Byzantium in Rome (cappellaromana.org), the ninth release from Portland vocal ensemble Cappella Romana, explores the little-heard yet immensely powerful 13th-century music chanted by expatriate Greek ...   More

Performance If you think regular job hunting is stressful, try showing up at a 300-person interview each week wearing a leotard. A Chorus Line, a musical about the employment woes of Broadway dancers, began in th ...   More

Performance Classical music is no longer the last bastion of white, upper-class Eurocentricity, and this week’s Chamber Music Northwest concerts prove it: The featured ensemble, Imani Winds, is composed of ...   More

Performance So much for culture in the ’Couv. After three seasons at the Main Street Theatre, Llewellyn J. Rhoe has uprooted his Arts Equity production company—“Vancouver’s first professio ...   More