Arts & Entertainment

a play by Madeleine George, continues through March 21 at Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (entrance through Common Grounds) presented by Defunkt. Brodie, a Doctor of Linguistics in

is a series of absurd one act parodies by Christopher Durang skewering well-known plays by Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard and others. Durang twists up American classics and culture in this

1050 SE Clinton St., put out a public call to writers and directors to submit ideas for the company’s next great show. Four Pilots were chosen and will premiere over

– Imago Theatre’s adaptation of Beauty and the Beast is in production but has been postponed to open later than planned in December 2015. The play incorporates puppetry (“120 little

by The Ensemble, is Sunday, March 22 at Saint Stephen’s Catholic Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave. at 4 pm. The concert consists of a cycle of 20 Italian spiritual madrigals

with Michael Stirling, Saturday, March 21 from 8 – 10 pm. An offering of Indian classical music with Michael Stirling, vocalist and disciple of Pandit Pran Nath and student of

Recent paintings from Alan Rose’s Wiseguy Narratives are on the walls of the Eastbank Commerce Center, 1001 SE Water Ave. for the month of March. Rose’s images of ordinary people

This is Spreading Feathers, fashioned from acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal, graphite, paper and wax on wood-board from Jenny Siegel’s new show Sowing Seeds at 12×16 Gallery, 8235 SE 13th Ave.

The Young Professionals Company at Oregon’s Children Theatre present columbinus, a play directed by Lava Alapai, opening April 10 at the YP Studio Theater, 1939 NE Sandy Blvd. Sparked by

Eugene musical ensemble Mood Area 52 performs a new soundtrack to Buster Keaton’s astonishing comedy Our Hospitality live at The Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Thursday, March 26. Our

The Northwest Film Center is screening Sean and Christof Whiteman’s experimental, shot-in-SE Portland film Childhood Machine March 5 at 7 pm at the Portland  Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave.

Music Millennium continues to make it happen live for Portland this month scheduling an upclose and personal Meet and Greet with Funkadelic founder George Clinton, March 18 at 4 pm

Over 140 artists and craftspersons come together again to benefit Buckman Arts Focus Elementary School for the Silver 25th Anniversary year of the Art Show and Sell Saturday and Sunday

The Northwest Classical Theatre Company and Cygnet Productions have collaborated for the first time for the Portland premiere of Mary Stuart. The play runs through March 29 at Shoebox Theatre,

Annalisa Tornfelt is a Portland musician whose violin, guitar and beautiful Swedish Nyckelharpa are a part of the sound of the city. Best known as the singer and fiddle player

Tunnel Six, are Canadian-American musical storytellers. Their new compositions share this year’s theme of journeys :: spaces :: stories in concert at Michelle’s Pianos, 600 SE Stark St. Tuesday March

This mask was created by Betsy Soifer and is part of the 12th Annual SE Area ARTWalk, a free art walking tour held Saturday and Sunday, February 28 – March 1

Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few know the incredible journey that her life has been. She’s even been a

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry presents “Mazes” beginning February 7. Get lost and get your hands on brain-bending science in this exhibit with 13 interactive mazes to bring you

Born is Portland songwriter Ara Lee’s just-released 5 song CD. Lee’s roots in the old hymnal spirituals of her youth in Appalachia are obvious and engaging, and her performance energy

Zen Shorts, is a collaboration between Portland’s Tears of Joy Theatre and Los Angeles’ Rogue Artists Ensemble based on the Caldecott Honor book by Jon J. Muth, It is presented

Opción Múltiple is a premeiere of a new 21st century comedy from Milagro Theatre. The story is set in contemporary Mexico City where Diana, the heroine, is a modern single woman

Doogan Holler and a stellar three songwriter song-pull in the round are highlights of this month’s Artichoke music calendar. Doogan Holler is a quintet featuring songs by Richey Bellinger, Kelly

Celebrate Fat Tuesday with a night of film, music and southern food, Tuesday, February 17 at 7 pm as Clinton Street Theatre kicks off an evening of living it up.

Portland artist Carye Bye’s creative endeavors manifest in three mediums. She’s assembled a collection representing her three lives and is revealing them to the world to see all at one

Portland’s NW International Film Festival moves SE with the addition of the Moreland Theater, 6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., and a couple others close by: the Roseway Theater, 7229 NE Sandy

features comics of all kinds. This is from Sandra Gibbons’ series, Tender Buttons: Comics Illustrating Gertrude Stein in MP5’s Lofts Gallery. Gibbons started illustrating Stein’s Tender Buttons in 2011 with

BENEFIT PIANO CONCERT – Pianist Greg Lief performs Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy and ragtime compositions by Scott Joplin, Saturday, February 7 at 7 pm in the Classic Pianos Recital Hall,

By J. Michael Kearsey   So much of the popular NBC weekly television drama, Grimm, is set in SE Portland, it seems you might run into one of those ‘Wesen’

The Creative Music Guild’s Confluence Visiting Artist Series presents French bassist, vocalist and composer Joëlle Léandre Friday, February 13 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5431 NE 20th Ave. The program includes

For nearly half a century, Tom Paxton has been a thoughtful voice addressing issues of injustice and inhumanity, laying bare the absurdities of modern culture and celebrating the tenderest bonds

Portland‘s Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Work returns for a sixth year with actors, dancers, designers, producers, artists, writers, performers and dance, clowns, visual art, film and premieres of

The ARCO-PDX Winter Concert is Saturday, January 17 at Refuge PDX, 116 SE Yamhill St beginning at 8 pm. Warm your winter with fiery sounds from Vivaldi and Portland’s Kenji

Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Young Professionals presents Impulse! Improvisational Comedy Troupe, January 22 – February 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm in their studio at 1939 NE Sandy Blvd. Back

The 27th annual Winterfolk Benefit Concert for Sisters of the Road is Saturday, January 31 at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., and this year’s headliner is autoharp master

Liminal is a theatre group like no other. This year they want to save Christmas. From itself. And what a present they’re bestowing. Jeff Marchant, Leo Daedalus and Carla Grant

Red Yarn (aka Andy Furgeson) is a family performer with a new musical puppet film called The Deep Woods. The 23 minute film has a hometown premiere Saturday December 6,

Brothers of the Baladi, the internationally-minded Oregon group fusing rock music with Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Armenian music, celebrate the 15th anniversary of their best-selling holiday record, A Time of

hosts its annual Holiday Sale Friday Dec. 5, from 6-9 pm and Saturday Dec. 6, 1-4 pm under the bridge at 322 SE Morrison St. (at MLK Blvd.) There’ll be

Miracle Theatre invites the whole family to enjoy the 10th annual of Posada Milagro, Sunday, December 14, 1 – 5 pm at El Centro Milagro, 537 SE Stark St. This

Oregon Hall of Fame Inductee Mark Bosnian presents his 18th annual Home For The Holidays Concert and Sing-Along on Saturday, December 13, 7 pm at TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St.

is a new series of assemblage by Shelly Caldwell (“From My Visit” pictured) and Robyn Williams up through December 28. Caldwell shares her impulse to know while cherishing the unknowable

Portland Cello Project has been presenting annual Winter shows for nearly ten years and the 2014 edition is  December 5 and 6 at the Aladdin Theatre, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.

Songwriter Alexa Wiley has performed for many good causes and effects in the Northwest for years. Now she’s released a new recording named for her new ensemble, Alexa Wiley &

HOLIDAY ART WORKSHOPS – Artist Laura Bender leads workshops making Batik cloth hangings with colorful fabric dyes and star patterns from folded colored papers to hang in the window. Both

This wall platter titled Reflection was made by SE Portland artist Babette Harvey. Her work is featured in several shows this month including the Audubon Wild Arts Festival, November 22

Oregon Koto-Kai (OKK) performs their third anniversary concert, Saturday, November 8 at Epworth United Methodist Church, 1333 SE 28th Ave. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the concert begins at

…a new juried exhibition of book art focusing on religion and spirituality at 23 Sandy Gallery at 623 NE 23rd Ave. Featured works “take a stand or cross the line

Sidestreet Gallery’s annual exhibition of  handcrafted ornaments includes flying robots like this one, slumped glass, paper mache, and painted wood and more. Sidestreet’s Holiday Show runs November 7 to December

Guitarist Jamie Stillway tours the world playing guitar. A Portland artist since the early aughts, she’ll take the stage at Café Artichoke’s intimate listening room debuting a new trio, Saturday,

The Next Waltz is a tribute concert and a benefit for both the Jeremy Wilson Foundation and the Oregon Food Bank. An all-star lineup of Portland musicians and singers recreate

Swansea is an imaginative musical amalgamation born when Portland keyboardist/singer Rebecca Sanborn and drummer Ji Tanzer recruited Kansas City multi-instrumentalist/singer Kyleen King to expand their sound. Their first recording is

is part of New-Found Scapes and Shapes, the November 12×16 Gallery show featuring Basch and Raymond Keller. carolbaschart.blogspot.com First Friday reception is November 7, 6 pm. An artists’ reception is

is presented again this year by Cantores In Ecclesia at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, 1112 SE 41St Ave. Sunday November 30, at 7:30 pm. Directed by Blake Applegate, the concert

The Late Now, the “thinking mammal’s avant-variety-talk show” presents its twenty-fifth spectaculous installment, The Dream Argument, Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 pm live at Vie de Bohème, 1530 SE 7th

Field + Frame: Contemporary Landscapes a show of new work from Katherine Mead at Gallery 6 PDX, 131 NE 6th Ave. opens November 7 and is up through the month’s

This year’s Siren Nation Festival presents nearly two weeks of music, theatre, comedy, visual art from more than 40 artists, an art and craft sale and free workshops. The event

EDITOR’S NOTE: Cheryl Brock recently attended a screening of Resistance at The Academy Theater. Here is her review. Antibiotics, the wonder drugs developed in the late 1920’s, changed the world

Abbie Weisenbloom Presents is an inner SE houseconcert series averaging two concerts a month. If you can’t get to the venue or a show has sold out, you can still

CAPTURING THE WILD STORM is Claudia F. Savage’s beginning poetry class. Share the work of poets you love, make your own poems, collaborate and focus on writing to capture a

Down Among The Dead Men is a presentation of three bone-chilling stories and songs by storyteller Anne Penfound and singers Diana Tracy and Kathleen Wilkins (Duo Artimesia) just in time

Day of the Dead meets Creature Features at Sidestreet Gallery’s October Show as Portland artists explore the holiday season in this fun filled exhibition of handmade creations. Sidestreet Gallery, 140

Action/Adventure Theatre opens a new serial comedy based upon the Mars One Mission that boasts the goal of establishing permanent human settlements on Mars. A new episode premieres weekly and

Nothing says Harvest Time better than the Portland Sacred Harp Convention. This gathering is in its 23rd year and takes place Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19 at The

Café Artichoke behind Artichoke Music is humming with a new season of musical performance. Saturday October 11 is a rare treat double- bill featuring Curtis and Loretta from Minnesota and

Visually-rich animation comes to life at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in a special presentation through January 11. From concept to finished product, the new exhibit is

Portland Open Studios Tour is two weekends, October 11, 12 and 18, 19, 10 am to 5 pm. Art studios are open both weekends and this annual event allows the

Bob:  A Life in 5 Acts by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is the Vertigo Theatre presentation October 17 – November 15 at Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave. Born in the

It’s a new season of Portland FolkSong Society concerts and this month, the dynamic duo of Kate Power and Steve Einhorn share the evening with Sarah McQuaid. The concert is

Come together for John Lennon’s birthday with KBOO twice this month. The 2006 documentary, “The U.S. vs John Lennon”, screens Thursday, October 9 at Clinton St Theatre, and is a

World Music bands Brothers of the Baladi and Padam Padam perform to support the 12th annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days at Vie de Boheme, 1530 SE 7th Ave., Sunday

Shakespeare is alive but not at all well. As his time draws near, friends from the “other side” come to visit! Hamlet, Ophelia, Titania and others circle his deathbed while

Peggy the Rug Lady has created over 1200 hand-braided rugs. She’ll be on hand with her area rugs to show as part of the Handcrafted Art Traditions show at Unfold

by Stephen Spotswood runs Thursdays – Sundays, October 10-November 15 at 7:30 pm at Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd.(enter through Common Grounds Coffee Shop) and presented by Defunkt

By Nancy Tannler   Little did I know of the very interesting, courageous and observant life my neighbor Elizabeth Enslin (aka Liz) led before we met here in Montavilla over

HOW TO SING WITH CONFIDENCE – Oregon Music Hall of Famer Mark Bosnian in a workshop Saturday, October 11, 9 am – 5 pm at TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St.

On Second Saturday, September 13, 11 am to 7 pm, a different kind of art show and a dozen or more artists will circle their mobile galleries at the Eastside

The fantastic visions of Portland artist Amelia Opie are featured in a collection of new work at Sidestreet Gallery throughout September. Opie’s paintings depict a reality “with an increasingly tenuous

Out of many Taborspace events this month, here are a few. All are held at 5441 SE Belmont St. Friday Sept. 12, LIVE IN CONCERT: THOLLEM MCDONAS, ANDRE ST. JAMES

…painted by SE artist Jolyn Fry who teaches painting classes beginning this month at Radius Studio, 322 SE Morrison St. including Mixed Level Painting, Wednesdays, 10 am, for beginning students;

Anaïs Mitchell has a voice and writer perspective like no one else’s. She’s as interested in the world around her as the one inside her and her songwriting is vivid

A new book to celebrate Poet William Stafford’s centennial birth year has been released by Portland’s ACS Publishing. Everyone Out Here Knows: A Big Foot Tale, is a delightful  and

The beginning of a new theatre season brings the return of the annual La Luna Nueva, Portland’s only Latino arts and culture festival. This is the sixth year and it

is Dan Pillers’ sculptural installation this month in the Denizen Gallery at Milepost 5, 850 NE 81 Ave., Working with salvaged wood, stone, glass and metal Dan Pillers creates sculptures

The 8th Oregon Music Hall of Fame (OMHOF) Induction Ceremony and Concert goes live at Aladdin Theater, Saturday October 4 at 7 pm. The event honors Oregonians who’ve significantly influenced

By J. Michael Kearsey   In 1841, Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in Paris. In 1961, Stan Wood invented the Vibraband in Portland. Wood, whose music and visual art was

SHAKING THE TREE THEATRE, formerly at 14th and SE Stark St. has signed a five year lease on a large warehouse space at 823 SE Grant St. two blocks west

Montavilla Jazz Festival premieres a two-day new music extravaganza Saturday and Sunday August 16 and 17. Thirteen Portland-based jazz groups and their very original music are featured in this continuous

Clinton Street Theater is the oldest continuously-operating movie theater in the northwest and one of the longest-running theaters in the country. Offering truly independent film and championing a variety of