Dr. Rebecca Hays, Soprano and Associate Professor of Music in Texas A&M’s Department of Performance, Visualization and Fine arts will join UP faculty Susan McDaniel and Nicole Leupp Hanig to perform a recital of music curated from art song and operatic repertoire. (Read More)
Performing and Fine Arts
UP Theater Presents: “Pride & Prejudice, An Original Devised Production” (Apr. 9-13)
UP Theater’s final mainstage show, “Pride & Prejudice, An Original Devised Production,” explores charged scenes as moments of queer potentiality, claiming the novel as ours to read, love, and embody! (Read More)
Pre-Play Reception and Panel for “Pride & Prejudice” (Apr. 12)
Ticket holders for Pride and Prejudice – A Devised Adaptation are invited to enjoy a complimentary small bites reception and an expert pre-show panel discussion courtesy of the Garaventa Center. (Read More)
This Is Our Calling: Songs of Hope and Unity (Apr. 12)
UP Performing & Fine Arts Department, Center for Gender and Sexuality, and Diversity and Inclusion Programs present This Is Our Calling: Songs of Hope and Unity! Featuring UP Bel Canto, Chamber Choir and Singers, with powerful music of love, social justice, celebration and peace. Admission is free and open to all! (Read More)
UP Theater Presents: “The Effect” by Lucy Prebble (Feb. 19-23)
Connie and Tristan are volunteers in a clinical trial—they’re falling in love, but is it just the side effect of the experimental antidepressant they’re taking? UP theater is proud to present this romantic dramedy that has taken the theater world by storm around the country and abroad. (Read More).
Pre-Play Reception & Panel for “The Effect” (Feb. 22)
Ticket show holders for The Effect by Lucy Prebble are invited to enjoy a complimentary drinks and small bites reception and an expert pre-show panel discussion, courtesy of the Garaventa Center. (Read More).
Wags & Whiskers: Two O-paw-ras about Family for All Ages (Jan. 18-19)
New Wave Opera, in partnership with University of Portland and Oregon Humane Society, is pleased to present “Wags & Whiskers,” a double-bill of family-friendly operas about pets. (Read More).
UP Theatre Presents: “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes)” (Nov. 13-23)
Every night’s a different show with “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes),” as the audience gets to pick the order in which scenes are performed and the actors must get through the whole performance before the clock strikes zero. (Read More).
Pre-Play Reception & Panel: “You Can See All The Stars” (Oct. 5)
Ticket show holders for “You Can See All The Stars,” a story by local playwright E.M. Lewis, are invited to join us for a complimentary small bites reception and expert led pre-show panel discussion. (Read More).
Performing & Fine Arts Presents: “If Music Be the Food of Love” (Oct. 5)
You are cordially invited to a Fall choral concert featuring the UP Chamber Choir, Bel Canto and Singers. This literary inspired event features musical settings of Shakespeare by Verdi and others, as well as additional music by Clara Schumann, Morten Lauridsen, Sarah Quartel and Portland’s own Judy A. Rose. (Read More).