Slide Show: Fall Arts Guide 2013
August 20, 2013
Conduit Dance
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Portland Center Stage: "The Mountaintop"
Aug 3–Oct 27: This surrealist fantasy about the last night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life premiered in 2009 at London’s Theatre503 before going on to win an Olivier Award for Best Play and become a Broadway smash starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela B
Fuse Theatre Ensemble: "A Midsummer Night's Somnambulism"
Aug 24–25: You've heard of Shakespeare in the Park, but Fuse takes it to a whole new elevation: Shakespeare in the Forest. Join them on the side of Mt. Hood for a night of camping and a moving (literally) production of Shakespeare's enchanted forest clas
PICA's Time-Based Arts Festival: "Jamie Isenstein: Will Return"
Aug 27–Oct 20: Rising New York artist and Portland native Isenstein puts herself into her work—literally. Many of the installations in this survey show involve her sustained presence in feats of artistic endurance, such as remaining hidden in a wall for
Zena Zezza: "Artist Project Season 01: Josiah McElheny"
Sept 8–Dec 7: This exhibition by the internationally renowned artist Josiah McElheny promises to be both beautiful and intellectually challenging—two ambitions rarely found in so much abundance in one artist’s work. McElheny’s expansive intellect reaches
Portland Center Stage: "Fiddler on the Roof"
Sep 14–Oct 27: Portland Center Stage artistic director Chris Coleman (pictured) has dreamed of doing this Tony Award–winning classic for 20 years. “The music is so simple, but so moving,” he says. His patience paid off: he’s staging it with the largest k
Third Angle New Music Ensemble/TBA: String Quartet no. 3
Sept 17–19: Known for performing in unlikely venues—an office building, a fountain, a porch—the local new music ensemble plunges into pitch darkness at the OMSI Planetarium to perform Georg Friedrich Haas’s String Quartet no. 3, which the Los Angeles Tim
Oregon Symphony: "Scheherazade"
Sept 21 & 23: Few works of music are as beautiful, richly nuanced, and dynamically varied as Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s brilliant interpretation of stories within stories, complemented here by a highly unusual and delicate percussion conc
Third Rail Repertory Ensemble: "Sweet and Sad"
Sept 27–Oct 20: Last season, Third Rail Rep’s That Hopey Changey Thing introduced us to the Apple family, the fictional clan at the center of a four-play series by Tony winner Richard Nelson. Sweet and Sad picks up with the family while they gather for a
Portland Piano International: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Sept 29–30: “Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has the best Ravel Gaspard de la nuit recording on the market,” says PPI's new artistic director, the internationally-renowned pianist Arnaldo Cohen (pictured and profiled in the Fall Arts Guide).
PDX Contemporary Art: Jacques Flechmuller: "Dance with Ingres"
Oct 1–Nov 2: Gallery owner Jane Beebe with French-painter Jacques Flechemuller's self-portrait as Tarzan. Get it? pdxcontemporaryart.com
Blue Sky Gallery: "Chuck Close: Tapestries"
Oct 3–Nov 3: Oregon’s photography center exhibits Close’s recent work in tapestries, through which the famed photographer and photorealist painter continues his career-long examination of how viewers see many parts as a coherent whole. blueskygallery.or
Portland Baroque Orchestra: "Bach Concertos: Violin and Oboe"
Oct 4–13: PBO performs and records 10 Bach concertos highlighting leading period oboist Gonzalo X. Ruiz and artistic director/violinist Monica Huggett. “Gonzalo Ruiz is one of the top two or three baroque oboists in the world," says PBO Executive Directo
BodyVox: "Body Opera Files"
Oct 10–26: BodyVox’s multimedia dance-theater show Body Opera Files unfolds the noirish narratives of assorted outsiders to the live sounds of tango, torch songs, and Tom Waits. bodyvox.com
Defunkt Theatre: "The Submission"
Oct 11–Nov 16: Having closed last season with a double knockout of historic gay plays (The Boys in the Band and The Children’s Hour), Defunkt presents a hot new voice on the topic: Jeff Talbott. About a gay, white, male playwright who works under the pse
Oregon Ballet Theatre: "Dream"
Oct 12–19: Incoming artistic director Kevin Irving (pictured and profiled in the Fall Arts Guide) makes his presence known with Por Vos Muero, a contemporary ballet from the much-in-demand Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato. The Spanish Renaissance–inspir
Milagro Theatre Group: "Dia De Muertos"
Oct 17-Nov 10: A world premiere, bilingual celebration of the Day of the Dead, created & directed by Lakin Valdez of the legendary Teatro Campesino, in the style of the classic obra calavera, including music, raunchy humor, physicality, and bitter irony.
Oregon Children's Theater: "The Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans"
Oct 19–Nov 10: In this adaptation of an entry in the best-selling Magic Tree House children’s series, the time-warping tree house sends our sibling protagonists back to 1915 New Orleans, where they inspire a young Louis Armstrong. octc.org
White Bird: Sydney Dance Company
Oct 23 at 7:30: Australia’s leading contemporary dance company returns to town after a six-year absence with a new artistic director, Rafael Bonachela, and a giant, pulsing, pixelated LED matrix. “This is all-out dance,” says Walter Jaffe, cofounder of l
Think & Drink
Oct 23 at 6:30: For the last in Oregon Humanities’ series of happy-hour talks on “How to Love America,” the featured speakers are two veterans: Karl Marlantes, the Seaside-born author of the Vietnam War novel "Matterhorn," and Cameron Smith, the 34-year-
Northwest Dance Project: "New Now Wow!"
Oct 24–26: NWDP’s annual program of new works highlights pieces by two winners of its annual Pretty Creatives choreographic competition, as well as the company’s first work from Danielle Agami, who introduced the Israeli dance technique called Gaga to th
Portland Opera: "Salome"
Nov 1–9: Powerful, intense, salacious—since its premiere in 1905, Strauss’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s retelling of this biblical tale continues to shock and thrill audiences. Portland Opera will create a new, modern, main-stage production (its
P:ear's Second Annual Harvest Fundraiser
Nov 9: P:ear's annual fall fundraiser promises food by Ned Ludd and Olympic Provisions, cocktails, goats (?!), and live music by Hook & Anchor (same band members as Blind Pilot)——all in the name of supporting homeless youth. pearmentor.org
Portland Playhouse: "The Other Place"
Nov 13–Dec 8: “I gravitate to stories that follow the path from the tidy to the chaotic, so 'The Other Place' is my kind of theatre," says new managing director Kevin Kruse (pictured on right and profiled in the Fall Arts Guide). "There's something about
Fall Arts Editor Aaron Scott and Art Director Kate Madden
We couldn't be more delighted with all the creativity, energy, and shenanigans Portland's art's community brought into the photo booth. Thanks all!
