Arts & Culture

10 Questions with… Tom Booth, director of the Oregon State University Press, who is retiring this month after 35 years with the press

After a four-year hiatus, theater is back in Withycombe Hall, and a brand-new student written and directed play opens next week titled “I met the Baba Yaga (and she lives in Tennessee).” Now performers and audiences can enjoy the intimate setting of the lab theatre and experience the play’s debut.

More than three dozen ocean-themed films will be featured during the Big Blue Film Fest Jan. 23-24 in Newport.