Things to Do in Portland This Week
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theater Pride & Prejudice
SEPT 27–OCT 25 | PORTLAND CENTER STAGE, From $25
Playwright Kate Hamill is known for screwball stage adaptations of classics, including Sense & Sensibility and Vanity Fair. In this madcap riff on Jane Austen's most famous novel, the playwright zeroes in on the question of how anyone can know if they've met "the one." Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage, helms the production.
FILM In Search of Portland
7PM THU, Oct 8 | Tomorrow Theater, $15
Books Larry Crane
7PM Fri, OCT 9 | POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS, FREE
Crane, the longtime Jackpot! Recording Studio owner and Tape Op magazine editor, comes to Powell's to talk with John McEntire (or Tortoise and the Sea and Cake) about Making Music: Conversations with Record Producers. Edited by Crane with John Baccigaluppi, the collection of interviews from Tape Op’s first 30 years, with the likes of RZA, T Bone Burnett, and Jennifer Decilveo, gets into the value of collaboration and details of what really happens in the booth.
Books Min Jin Lee with Mitchell S. Jackson
7:30PM Fri, OCT 9 | Patricia Reser Center for the arts, $47–61
In a powerhouse lineup, Literary Arts brings Pachinko author Min Jin Lee to Beaverton's Reser to talk about her latest novel, American Hagwon, with Portland-raised Pulitzer-winning writer Mitchell S. Jackson.
Ballet Swan Lake
VARIOUS TIMES SAT–SAT, OCT 10–17 | KELLER AUDITORIUM, $39–188
Oregon Ballet Theatre brings a version of the classic ballet choreographed by former OBT artistic director Christopher Stowell, complete with its Tchaikovsky score and evil sorcerer.
Botany Treevia Night
7:30PM TUE, OCT 13 | Garden Party Food Carts, Free
North Williams Avenue cart pod Garden Party hosts one of the City of Portland's neighborhood tree steward for "a night filled with laughs, fun facts, and a shared love for trees." Questions might touch on Portland history and nature as well as trees in movies or on album covers.
DANCE Circa
7:30PM WED, OCT 14 | ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL, $5–130
Ongoing
visual art The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
THRU JAN 3, 2027 | PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, $27.50
Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria provided nearly 150 works for this special exhibition at PAM, which features pieces by Indigenous artists from across Australia, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present. The work spans genres, too—ochre bark paintings, sound installations, photography, weavings, and more.