Best Actor/Actress
Inga Wilson OCTheatre.org/staff. Russel Dyball Find on Twitter. Storm Kennedy StormKennedy.com. Inga Wilson, our readers’ choice this year for Best Actor/Actress in town, got her … 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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Black Magic
Into the Woods at Cottage Theatre is dark, funny and beautiful
Imagine several of your favorite fairy tale characters springing into real life and setting out together on a series of elaborate quests. Imagine they are … Continue reading
Whose Wild West Is It?
A sprawling exhibition at the Schnitzer challenges myths of the frontier West
Walk into the spacious Barker Gallery at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in the next couple months and you’ll find yourself face to face … Continue reading
Still in Print
As other publications pull back or move online, Eugene Weekly continues to cover news and write about arts and culture — and deliver it in print
It all started with a hope and a dream. Forty years ago this month four back-to-the-land hippies pooled their resources and vision to launch a … Continue reading
Soul Food
Jen Silverman’s Witch at OCT casts a powerful spell
At a time when hope for the world is in such short supply — think climate change, wildfires, the pandemic, the possible nuclear madness of … Continue reading
Free Expression
‘Revolution in 8 Pieces’ explores the artistic tensions posed by our high-tech lives
The conflict between free will and stark determinism lies at the heart of an unusual new sculpture that will greet visitors to Eugene’s New Zone … Continue reading
Warming Up to Cats
Confessions of a very late-life cat lover
The first pet I bonded with in life was a cat. Rhubarb was a fluffy white Persian, a soft cottony cloud who only occasionally clawed … Continue reading
What Our Readers Think About the Claire Syrett Recall
Most people who wrote to EW are strongly opposed to the recall
Editor’s note: We received so many letters about the proposed recall of Ward 7 City Councilor Clair Syrett — most strongly opposed to removing the … Continue reading
Very Little Theatre 2.0
VLT bounces back from the pandemic with new bylaws, revised branding, a refurbished performance hall and — finally! — Little Women, the Musical
More than two years after what was supposed to be its final dress rehearsal, Little Women, the Musical, will at last be staged at Eugene’s … Continue reading
Subverting and Diverting
Two art shows downtown this month range from Sharply political to imaginatively elegant
In honor of the World Athletics Championships, which are to take over much of Eugene for 10 days starting July 15, New Zone Gallery has … Continue reading