Performance By his early teens, Adam Guettel was enjoying a career on the operatic stage that would be the envy of any young singer—not to mention adults three times his age. In gigs as a boy soprano at the ... More
The Light in the Piazza
This Met-meets-Broadway show is all about lush music.
Performance By his early teens, Adam Guettel was enjoying a career on the operatic stage that would be the envy of any young singer—not to mention adults three times his age. In gigs as a boy soprano at the ... More
Suck your Sidekick; Sing a Showtune
News
As one gay bathhouse in Portland (that's Club Portland on Stark Street, kids) is on its way out of business, another gay bathhouse is in the process of being born.
As a musical comedy.
Word is out today tha... More
LIVE REVIEW: Janssen's "Rebound" Springs to Life
News Conny Janssen's “Rebound” may have a trampoline center stage, but the most buoyant and affecting moments in this new dance piece have nothing to do with that nonsensical springboard.
In its American debut courtesy of White Bird, More
Voices of the (Queer?) Spirit
In the closet of the Schnitz, queer voices emerge.
Performance Conductor Carlos Kalmar can easily tick off a list of Oregon Symphony achievements that have happened on his watch: a dramatic increase in the precision and shine of the symphony, a spate of new princ ... More
The Flying dutchman
Christopher Alden strips down Wagner to chilling effect.
Performance Christopher Alden doesn't like the views from his South Waterfront hotel room. "It is," he says, referencing no water in sight from his window, "more of a non-view." Views, perspectives, images&mdash ... More
Bouncing Off The Walls
Conny Janssen Danst makes its leap to the U.S. with help from White Bird and local set builders.
Featured Stories Schumacher's protesters and other animal-rights activist types need not worry: The leather panels covering this new dance set are 100-percent fake. "Yes, it's faux leather," reiterates Walter Jaffe, ... More
OBT Premieres Hit Their Mark (Mostly)
News
Christopher Stowell has, in effect, thrown down the ballet gauntlet with Oregon Ballet Theatre's ambitious and intermittently successful program of premieres last weekend. His company means business.
Business in the sense of bringing new works from some of the today's top modern ... More
Sydney Dance Company/stephen Petronio
Ballet's bad boy loves himself a little Nick Cave. Awesome.
Performance When casting about for dancemaking music, most contemporary ballet choreographers veer toward the classical end of the spectrum. Mark Morris works with Handel and Schubert. William Forsythe has set a ... More
The Christopher Stowell Show
Sneaking a peek at OBT's winter program and 2007-08 season.
Performance Make no mistake: Oregon Ballet Theatre is very much Christopher Stowell's company.This is, as the last four seasons have shown, an overwhelmingly good thing for Portland's cultural life. Since taking ... More
Key Turn Project
Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company.
Performance Before the lights went down at the debut performance of Key Turn Project —Portland's newest contemporary dance and music collective—the company had a lot going for it: a group of fresh-fac ... More
Top Articles from Stephen Marc Beaudoin
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The artist/inventor/entrepreneur returns to Portland, golden tits and bling in tow. Portland Sacred Harp Singing
Attention, shoppers: Loud Protestant hymn singing in Aisle 3. Altar Boyz
All genuflect to the catholic tastes of a cult musical hit. Opera Theater Oregon: Opera Cinema—Carmen
Buxom Madsen-Bradford Bares All as Carmen. Amy Schwartz Moretti
What does it say about Portland arts that the 30-year-old concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony is leaving for Georgia? Portland Gay Men's Chorus
A bunch of gay guys singing the words of Jesus, Gandhi...and Mother Teresa? Brian Ferriso
New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs. Jun Iwasaki & the Oregon Symphony
A new town, a new sound and a big raise for this young violinist. Key Turn Project
Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company. Wade Mccollum
What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater.
The artist/inventor/entrepreneur returns to Portland, golden tits and bling in tow. Portland Sacred Harp Singing
Attention, shoppers: Loud Protestant hymn singing in Aisle 3. Altar Boyz
All genuflect to the catholic tastes of a cult musical hit. Opera Theater Oregon: Opera Cinema—Carmen
Buxom Madsen-Bradford Bares All as Carmen. Amy Schwartz Moretti
What does it say about Portland arts that the 30-year-old concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony is leaving for Georgia? Portland Gay Men's Chorus
A bunch of gay guys singing the words of Jesus, Gandhi...and Mother Teresa? Brian Ferriso
New Portland Art Museum executive director says what he really thinks about football fans and art snobs. Jun Iwasaki & the Oregon Symphony
A new town, a new sound and a big raise for this young violinist. Key Turn Project
Free eats and cheap drinks can't save a free-falling new dance company. Wade Mccollum
What a standout Portland actor really thinks about local theater.
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