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Bob Keefer

Bob Keefer is Eugene Weekly's arts editor. He was a news and arts writer for The Register-Guard for 30 years before coming to EW.

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Pegasus Playhouse

A new youth theater company in town debuts with a musical

Theater 6 years ago

Pegasus Playhouse, a new theater company for young people, opens its first show this weekend when the original musical Too Many Princesses: A Feminist Fable … Continue reading →

Script Revision

Theater 6 years ago

The drama at Cottage Theatre has been largely backstage this summer, as the community theater in Cottage Grove shut down in May for a planned … Continue reading →

A Bridge to Nowhere

The UO’s latest architectural folly isolates it even more from the community it serves

Arts 6 years ago

Bridges are meant for connection. The Brooklyn Bridge ties together two key boroughs of New York City. The Golden Gate Bridge not only lets people … Continue reading →

Art Animals

A studio menagerie provides therapy

Culture 6 years ago

Eugene sculptor Jud Turner often surrounds himself at work with animals — shiny metallic critters made of recycled car parts and other industrial detritus. He’s … Continue reading →

Swinging Eugene

OFAM opens its annual jazz fest at The Shedd with Chuck Redd at the helm

Music 6 years ago

Maryland jazzman Chuck Redd, who’s played with the likes of Charlie Byrd and Mel Tormé, has been a regular with the Oregon Festival of American … Continue reading →

Speak of the Devil

Shedd Theatricals 2019 opens this weekend with Damn Yankees

Theater 6 years ago

The 18th season of musical theater at The Shedd kicks off Friday, July 12, with the opening of Damn Yankees — one of the oddest … Continue reading →

Janelle McCoy Out at Oregon Bach Festival

She was behind the controversial firing of Matthew Halls

BlogNews 6 years ago

Janelle McCoy, the controversial executive director of the Oregon Bach Festival at the University of Oregon, is to be laid off and her job eliminated … Continue reading →

The Comedy’s Afoot

VLT stages a cozy whodunnit about a mystery writer

Theater 6 years ago

We all love a good classic mystery, the kind of cozy whodunnit in which one of the biggest challenges of life — solving a murder … Continue reading →

Music to Heal a Dying Planet

Contemporary composers contemplate the apocalypse

Music 6 years ago

On a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon in May, hundreds of people crammed into the gymnasium at Burns High School in eastern Oregon for a concert. … Continue reading →

Chilling in Nebraska

South Eugene drama students will perform new musical at international theater fest

Theater 6 years ago

South Eugene High School’s drama department is taking its show on the road this summer — all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. About 40 cast … Continue reading →

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Bob Keefer

Bob Keefer is Eugene Weekly's arts editor. He was a news and arts writer for The Register-Guard for 30 years before coming to EW.

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