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Rick Levin

Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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Flesh and Blood

Dark secrets haunt an American family in OCT’s production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child

Theater 7 years ago

Between my two favorite American playwrights, Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard, I find Shepard to be, inexplicably, the more familiar but less accessible of the … Continue reading →

Laughing Like Hell

The Death of Stalin dares to find humor, and lots of it, in the murderous mechanics of a totalitarian regime

Film 7 years ago

If there is a God, and if he is indeed all-knowing and all-powerful and all that, what must he think of the human race and … Continue reading →

Laughing Like Hell

The Death of Stalin dares to find humor, and lots of it, in the murderous mechanics of a totalitarian regime

Film 7 years ago

If there is a God, and if he is indeed all-knowing and all-powerful and all that, what must he think of the human race and … Continue reading →

A New Paper in Town

Longtime local stalwart Eugene Weekly has been sold  

Culture 7 years ago

Sending shockwaves throughout the notoriously liberal stronghold of Eugene, it was announced Monday that the city’s longstanding weekly newspaper has been sold to a media … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Institution

Involuntary commitment to a mental ward is just the start of her problems in Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane

Film 7 years ago

Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens on a terrifying scene: Joseph K., a mild-mannered bank clerk, wakes up one fine morning to find he’s been placed … Continue reading →

Over a Barrel

A marriage falls to shit in VLT’s production of David Lindsay-Abaire dark comedy Wonder of the World

Theater 7 years ago

Not that anybody’s clamoring for my approval, but let me begin by congratulating Very Little Theatre for daring to step afoul of the staid, risk-averse … Continue reading →

Magillas in the Mist

Two Americans stumble upon a time-travelling Scottish village in ACE’s production of Lerner and Loewe’s mid-century musical Brigadoon

Theater 7 years ago

Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 fantasia Brigadoon contains all the familiar hallmarks of a seminal mid-20th century musical: romantic complications of a twee and slightly saucy … Continue reading →

An Evening with David Rawlings

Live at McDonald Theatre [3.8.18]

Music 7 years ago

Among those in the know, including the adoring fans who packed McDonald Theatre to see him play March 8, David Rawlings is one of the … Continue reading →

A Kinder Murder

Two girls, feeling and unfeeling, plan a murder in director Cory Finley’s dark thriller Thoroughbreds

Film 7 years ago

What, exactly, is a sociopath? Surprisingly, despite its widespread use these days as a term to describe everything from U.S. presidents to office colleagues, sociopath … Continue reading →

Wine in the Valley

Portland playwright Andrea Stolowitz's Successful Strategies opens at OCT

Theater 7 years ago

Now receiving its world premiere at Oregon Contemporary Theatre under the direction of Elizabeth Helman, Successful Strategies is a romantic comedy set right in the … Continue reading →

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