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Dorothy Velasco

Author: Dorothy Velasco

The World According to Cats 

Jen Ferro’s ‘Cat Lady’ at VLT has claws but could use development

ArtsTheater 1 month ago

Stage Left at The Very Little Theatre is proving to be an incubator for new plays by local playwrights. Cat Lady, a comedy by Eugene … Continue reading →

Family Affair

In Something Clean, Selina Fillinger examines rape from a mother’s viewpoint

Theater 3 months ago

Remember this name: Selina Fillinger. It’s the name of a young playwright — very young, precocious and prolific. And, a playwright who happened to be … Continue reading →

To Die Like a Man

A powerful production at VLT explores the art of facing an unjust death

Theater 4 months ago

A Lesson Before Dying, Romulus Linney’s drama based on the acclaimed 1993 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, is now playing in a heart-wrenching production at The … Continue reading →

Hot Pajamas

The Shedd Theatricals production brings a jazzy energy to a classic Broadway hit about unions

Theater 9 months ago

If you’re of a certain age and you like musical comedy, you can probably sing along with the multitude of hit songs in The Pajama … Continue reading →

The Lasting Charm of ‘Little Women’

A musical version of the much-loved novel at the remodeled VLT reminds us that we never outgrow the classics

ArtsPerforming ArtsTheater 10 months ago

How many times have you read or seen Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women? Or A Christmas Carol, or Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice? In such … Continue reading →

Seeing Their Scars

Two women — and two goats — confront trauma in a bright new play at OCT

Theater 1 year ago

In Alabaster, a comic drama concocted by the prolific Southern writer Audrey Cefaly, Alabaster is a fictional town in Alabama, blown to smithereens by a … Continue reading →

Nora’s Back

OCT opens a sparkling production of a contemporary sequel to Ibsen’s classic A Doll’s House

Theater 1 year ago

Two years ago, for the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in America, the University of Oregon produced A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. The Norwegian … Continue reading →

Nasty Women

UO Theater lights up Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Theater 3 years ago

The University of Oregon picked a fine time to produce A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking feminist play that shocked the world for decades after … Continue reading →

Tangled Dramedy

Karam’s Sons of the Prophet gets an uneven production at UO

Theater 3 years ago

In the past decade, the Lebanese American playwright Stephen Karam has garnered a substantial list of prestigious theater awards, including a Tony, an Obie and … Continue reading →

Hungarian Rhapsody

An urbane She Loves Me hits all the right notes at The Shedd

Theater 3 years ago

Even Scrooge would have to love She Loves Me, playing through Dec. 22 at The Shedd’s Jaqua Concert Hall. After all, this endearing and enduring … Continue reading →

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