HOOD RIVER — Dripping with glamor and energy, “Cabaret” etches a Berlin colored by vibrant personalities. But the city is crumbling, threatened by oppressive forces of evil and bigotry out to eradicate free existence. From Hood River production company Theatre CamilleLynne, an all-teenage production of the legendary Broadway musical will premiere at Columbia Center for the Arts (CCA) on Aug. 7 and run for two weekends.
BINGEN — If there’s one thing I’ve come to expect from Big Britches Productions (BPP), resident theater company at the Bingen Theater, it’s exposure to hidden gems. If there’s another, it’s that the non-profit will handle each relatively unknown script with the utmost care, delivering quality shows time and time again across a myriad of theatrical genres.
BINGEN — Big Britches Productions (BBP) is delighted to announce its summer production of “String,” a musical fable about the Greek Fates living and working in the modern city, opening July 31 at the Bingen Theater and running through August 15.
ODELL — For over 20 years, conductor Mark Steighner has graciously led the Gorge Sinfonietta, a principal ensemble within the Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association (CGOA). That storied tenure reached its final chapter at Wy’East Middle School on June 21, where flittering piano melodies, booming horns, and elegant strings rounded out CGOA’s epic 2025-2026 season finale, “Piano Summit.”
HOOD RIVER — From a warm early afternoon and well into a breezy evening, people of all ages gathered in the name of freedom and community, dancing their way through Black in the Gorge’s (B.I.G.) fourth annual Juneteenth celebration at Jackson Park.
SKAMANIA CO. — The 2026 Columbia Gorge Pride Festival is coming to Stevenson on June 13-14.
HOOD RIVER — Love, music, and plenty of bubbles filled the air downtown Friday evening, as members of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies gathered downtown in celebration of Pride.
THE GORGE — The Oregon Heritage Commission has honored The Watershed Rock Opera with an Oregon Heritage Award of Excellence, recognizing the project’s innovative approach to storytelling and heritage preservation.
THE DALLES — “Kaleidoscopia” is a visual meditation through the abstract image concoctions of artists Brielle Lefebvre and Jason Breeden. Their imagery emerges from a collaboration between the conscious and subconcious, resulting in a layered symbolism of our micro and macro worlds.
WHITE SALMON — They’re creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, the Addams Family descended upon the Columbia High School (CHS) gymnasium last weekend, where students boogied and belted their way through three performances of the hit Broadway adaptation — the school’s first musical production under drama teacher Shawn Friese.
THE DALLES — On their sixth album, “Mythomania,” Susurrus Station confronts our compulsion to tell stories, how it fuels our tendency to fabricate or sensitize known realities, blurring the lines between myth and memory.
LYLE — On “Mythomania,” their sixth album, Lyle-based duo Susurrus Station explores our almost obsessive impulse to spin yarns, searching for meaning in myth and memory.
WHITE SALMON — On May 14, a trio of Columbia High School juniors will travel to San Francisco to pitch their months-long, user-centered engineering project, which converts color into sound.
BINGEN — “Latin music makes you want to move,” said Jen Sotolongo, the event organizer of Baila Sin Parar, a Latin-themed dance fitness class.
HOOD RIVER — “Ordinary Days,” a four-player musical from teen production group Theatre CamilleLynne (TCL), will premiere at Columbia Center for the Arts (CCA) on April 3 and run for two weekends.
HOOD RIVER — Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, will lead two special events — a morning writing workshop and an evening poetry reading — at Hood River Library on Saturday, April 4. Both are free and open to the public.
HOOD RIVER — Combined performances by the Gorge Sinfonietta and the Voci Community choir are always an event. On April 17-19, the two ensembles will come together for a performance called “Roads Not Taken.”
HOOD RIVER — Unregulated technology meets murder mystery in the Mid-Columbia Lions Follies' first full-length play, “Whodunit: powered by AI,” which premiered at Hood River Middle School on March 20 and will run for two weekends.
THE DALLES — Nearly two thousand people, including visitors from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond, populated downtown The Dalles March 6-8 for the inaugural “The Hoot” community music festival, a free, three-day celebration of arts and local culture presented by the all-volunteer nonp…
HOOD RIVER — A maximalist assortment of art and media furnished the vibrant interior of “Black Infinity House” at Columbia Center for the Arts on Feb. 6, kicking off a month-long celebration of local Black and BIPOC artists, Black culture and Black life.
THE DALLES — The Columbia Gorge’s largest city, commonly cited as a robust agricultural hub above all, is rarely acknowledged as a creative destination by outsiders. But for residents Marcus Swift and Rian Beach, founders of the nonprofit, all-volunteer event organizer The Dalles Overground (TDO), its vibrant creative foundation represents a community hungry for broadened cultural programming and further artistic avenues.
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