Best Local theater company
1. Very Little Theatre, 2350 Hilyard St., 541-344-7751, TheVlt.com. 2. Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 194 W. Broadway, 541-465-1506, OCTheatre.org. 3. Cottage Theatre, 700 Village Dr., Cottage … Continue reading
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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Time Traveler
Nellie McKay revisits her 2004 debut album, Get Away From Me, in her upcoming concert at The Shedd
Two decades and a couple years ago, a much-younger version of singer-songwriter Nellie McKay showed up for a New York recording session with the late … Continue reading
The Question of Youth
Symphony orchestras, dance companies and other performing groups wrestle with the question of who their audience is, or ought to be
One of the biggest fears in the performing arts world in recent years has been about demographics. Look around the audience for a classical music … Continue reading
UO Dismisses Complaint Against Student
The dean of the College of Design had accused an undergraduate of antisemitism for an art exhibit
In a 14-page Notice of Dismissal dated August 27, an outside investigator hired by the University of Oregon ruled that a complaint filed in January … Continue reading
Musical Memories
Classical musician Amy Adams works a different musical genre
At least once a week, and usually more often than that, Eugene chorister Amy Adams sings for a special audience. Some listen from sofas. Others … Continue reading
Old Age Magic
Cottage Theatre brings Shakespeare’s last play to the stage, with variations
Tony Rust must be a magician. What else could explain the eerie and wonderful magic that fills the stage in a new production he directed … Continue reading
Art of Politics
A student’s exhibit in a UO art gallery questioned UO officials’ complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza. One of the exhibit’s targets — the art school’s dean — filed a complaint. The student artist could be expelled.
Cassy Steuerwald’s art installation was titled “We Tried Throwing Them a Dinner Party.” It consisted of a small dining table with a pink tablecloth and … Continue reading
Driver Charged in Runner’s Death
Charges filed more than a month after the fatal accident
Eugene architect Scott Shawn Stolarczyk was charged on Thursday, May 29, with second degree manslaughter in the death of Sharon Schuman, a popular local musician … Continue reading
Sharon Schuman, 1946-2025
Through music, literature and running, she rose up from childhood poverty to offer decades of service to the community
Sharon Schuman, a concert violinist, political activist and retired university professor in Eugene, died Wednesday, April 23, when a driver lost control of his car … Continue reading
Oregon’s Cowboy Artist
A new book on painter C.S. Price is coming out in June, in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art
When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and his sister to … Continue reading