43) and Terwilliger Boulevard, and was officially dedicated just a couple of weeks ago. “Flourish” (when it’s printed the “lo” stands out in colored ink, to signify “Lake Oswego”) was installed last fall at the town’s northern border on State Street (U.S. WHILE YOU’RE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, you might also check out “Flourish,” the new sculpture by Ed Carpenter, the Portland artist whose large-scale indoor and outdoor sculptures, bridges, and window projects can be found around the world.
You can check out the details on the festival website. There’ll be music by standbys such as Norman Sylvester, Andy Stokes, and the Portland Jazz Youth Orchestra juried art exhibits and artist demonstrations kids’ art projects and food ranging from gyros to crêpes. The festival, which was founded in 1963, sprawls across two locations: George Rogers Park, and the sponsoring Lake Oswego Center for the Arts. That’s good news for the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, which fills the town with art, music, food, and general partying-down pretty much all day long Saturday and Sunday, June 25 and 26. YES, IT’S OFFICIALLY SUMMER, and as outdoor events and big gatherings emerge after a couple of years of Covid shutdowns or scalings-back, the forecast for the weekend is sunny and warm. Saturday on the outdoor stage at George Rogers Park as part of the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. Phil “Fang” Volk, original bassist with Paul Revere and the Raiders, and his band play 7:30-9 p.m. The company’s current season, Murphy said, was planned to include smaller-scale, mostly comic shows while coming out of the pandemic. “This really enables us to do so much more on the artistic side, because this is the back side” that makes everything easier, he added.Īs difficult as the pandemic was – Broadway Rose went dark for a time, then began to do videotaped productions for virtual viewing, and gradually crept back to doing live shows – it also allowed a lot of the work to be done while much of the world was on hold. The new scene shop, Murphy said, is almost triple the size of the old one, the costume shop centralizes construction for both stages, and the rehearsal space, which will also be used for education programs, youth camps and workshops, play readings, and community events, is a huge improvement: There have been times, Murphy said, when shows would be rehearsing in the lobby, “and that wasn’t good for anyone.” The two sizes are ideal for a blend of bigger Broadway-style classic shows and more intimate, often contemporary, chamber musicals.īut the expansion makes everything work better. The sexy stuff, of course, happens on stage, and Broadway Rose has two of them - the cozy 270-seater at the New Sage, and the 600-seat Deb Fennell Auditorium at Tigard High School, which comes complete with orchestra pit.
Photo courtesy Broadway Rose Theatre Company. That’s because, even though much of the building was torn up and in the midst of construction, the New Stage’s lobby and its 270-seat theater space weren’t affected.Ī crowd gathers outside the newly refurbished Broadway Rose building at Monday’s open house gala. “The good news is, all during construction we were able to perform,” Managing Director Dan Murphy said Wednesday. The company began to plan for the expansion in 2017 and had planned to begin construction in April 2020, but didn’t break ground until May 2021. Like a lot of things, the expansion - which includes a new costume shop and bigger scenic shop, much-needed administrative offices, and the Ellyn Bye Rehearsal Hall - was delayed by the pandemic. MONDAY WAS RIBBON-CUTTING DAY for Broadway Rose, the 30-year-old Tigard theater company that is one of Oregon’s foremost homes for musical theater: At long last its $3.4 million expansion of its New Stage complex in an old public school building is open for business.
Managing Director Dan Murphy cuts the ribbon and Producing Artistic Director Sharon Maroney cheers at Monday’s open-house unveiling of the $3.4 million expansion project.