If Tina Turner were to see the crowds coming around the block both ways at Keller Auditorium to see the musical about her life, whose production she personally approved, she would undoubtedly smile.
Author: Eric Ash
In Southern Oregon, a Slasher Film Stranger than Fiction
In 2015, pig farmer Susan Monica was convicted of killing two men on her farm outside the community of Wimer in Jackson County, Ore.
“Amélie” Takes Vancouver
It’s fitting there would be a musical adaptation of a film whose full title is a near-perfect rhyme: Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain.
Bill Plympton Is Previewing His Upcoming Film, “Slide,” at OMSI
Since 2002, the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology has highlighted independent film worldwide.
Departing Artistic Director Nataki Garrett Directs the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Production of “Romeo & Juliet”
At Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, director Nataki Garrett has brought a fresh spin to Romeo & Juliet, which is playing at Angus Bowmer Theatre through Oct. 15.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Is Struggling, but Hope Springs Eternal
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival started this decade on hiatus for the first time since World War II due to the pandemic, and 2020 also saw wildfires devastate swaths of Ashland and neighboring towns.
For One Electrifying Night, Terence Blanchard Was Center Stage at Portland Opera
Some film directors have musical signatures, working with the same composers on each project.
Northwest Children’s Theater Opens The Judy
Across from the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1000 SW Broadway is now the new home of Northwest Children’s Theater.
A Ghostwriter Enters a Maze of Deceit in Oregon Playwright E.M. Lewis’ “True Story”
Ten years after it debuted in Trenton, N.J., True Story, a postmodern take on the noir genre by Oregon playwright E.M. Lewis (Magellanica), comes to Portland Center Stage’s Ellyn Bye Studio (it’s produced by Artists Repertory Theatre, whose main locat…
“Rusalka” Makes Its Portland Debut
“Good evening, opera lovers and mermaids!