For many performing artists who grow up on the Oregon Coast, the pathway to a successful career on the stage seems to lead away. Bigger cities. Bigger stages. More opportunity. The Oregon Coast becomes something you carry with you, not something you expect to return to in a professional capacity. But for Livanna Maislen, an actor, dancer, and yogi based in San Francisco after years of work in New York’s theater ecosystem, returning to the Oregon Coast to appear in the upcomin

On the central Oregon Coast, art is no longer a scattered curiosity tucked between souvenir shops and fishing docks. Today it forms a collaborative ecosystem of galleries, artists, authors, and community spaces that draw visitors year-round—a transformation closely tied to Talley Woodmark. When Woodmark first arrived in Depoe Bay, few galleries existed and the artistic community lacked cohesion. What she found instead was potential: a small, supportive town capable of nurturi

By Don Gomez In a day and age colored by divisiveness, with Americans hardly able to agree on economic policy, social issues, and the practices which define good government, the stage at the Newport Performing Arts Center has become a rare kind of public square. Here, in this small coastal town, far from the nation’s power centers, theatergoers are gathering not for a debate, but for a play— What the Constitution Means to Me , Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed reflection on our natio