(Redmond Proficiency Academy’s Theatre students | Photo Courtesy of RPA) For the sixth straight year, Redmond Proficiency Academy (RPA) Theatre will present its annual student-directed, staff-written one-act performances on Thursday, January 23. Three RPA humanities instructors, Hallie Caron, Hector West and George Hegarty, are serving as the playwrights for this year’s performances. The instructors will…

(Photo | Pexels) Calling all “go big or go home” winter enthusiasts! Get ready to get goosebumps while you “Ooh!” and “Ahh!” at the impact and importance of our winter wildlands through this collection of short films. The 15th annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival will have three screenings in Central Oregon: two at…

(Ben Ives) We are so happy to announce that our 2019-20 season started with the very successful holiday show, Nutcracker, which was presented at the SHARC to an enthusiastic audience for five performances and included a dinner by South Bend Bistro and silent auction at the opening night gala. In other news, we are very…

The High Desert Museum and Bend Film completed a two-year national program on how to build successful, sustainable arts organizations in a crowded and shifting marketplace thanks to support from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. The Murdock Trust supported a total of 13 arts nonprofits from rural Oregon and SW Washington in completing the program….

(James O’Neil in Clarence Darrow | Photo Courtesy of Tower Theatre Foundation) On Saturday, January 11 at 7:30pm, the nonprofit Tower Theatre Foundation invites you to David Rintels’ trailblazing one-person play, Clarence Darrow, starring Los Angeles actor/producer/writer James O’Neil, who happens to be a cousin of Mr. Darrow three-times removed! Says O’Neil, “Bend is one of…

(Sister’s Christmas Catechism | Photo Courtesy of Tower Theater Foundation) On December 10 and 11 at 7:30pm, the nonprofit Tower Theatre Foundation invites you to Sister’s Christmas Catechism, a holiday mystery extravaganza! From the author of Late Nite Catchism, it’s “CSI: Bethlehem” as Sister takes on the mystery that has intrigued historians throughout the ages:…