A Brilliant Con Job
The Shedd’s Music Man marches straight into the heart
Once in a while professional stage director Kirk Boyd comes out of retirement to give local theater lovers a welcome taste of his theatrical magic. … Continue reading
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The World According to Cats
Jen Ferro’s ‘Cat Lady’ at VLT has claws but could use development
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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