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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.
The Oregon Bach Festival is getting a reboot. In the wake of the sudden and controversial firing of popular Artistic Director Matthew Halls in 2017, … Continue reading
Four decades ago, Toni Pimble came to Eugene with her then-husband, Riley Grannan, to start a ballet company. It was the 1970s, a time when … Continue reading
When Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Seven Deadly Sins opens for a two-night run on Friday, Feb. 22, it will assemble one of the largest … Continue reading
Nellie McKay is such a regular performer in Eugene it’s hard to keep track of her appearances. The New York singer-songwriter, known for everything from … Continue reading
Martin Cohen’s intense new drama Checkpoint, which opened Feb. 1 at the Wildish Community Theater in Springfield, meticulously dissects both sides of the conflict that … Continue reading
Theresa Rebeck’s one-act play The Understudy, which opened Jan. 18 for a three-week run at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, appears on the surface to offer a … Continue reading
Think classical music and most people visualize a full-size orchestra, with 50 or more musicians, all led by a conductor on a podium front and … Continue reading
Somewhere in the late 20th century, art in America went through a cosmic shift: “Beauty” became a dirty word. In the 1950s, a middlebrow, slightly … Continue reading
Art lovers on Lane Arts Council’s First Friday ArtWalk Jan. 4 have a delicious palette to choose from. Among the offerings this month: Interdisciplinary artist … Continue reading
Eugene singer Siri Vik has regularly performed music by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht — pieces from The Three Penny Opera and The Rise And … Continue reading