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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See ‘Rent’ at ACE While You Still Can
Actors Cabaret of Eugene holds its last performances of the popular musical Friday and Saturday, July 7 and 8
A group of young artists in Lower Manhattan’s East Village fight to survive the struggles of the ’80s — AIDS, greed and love — in … Continue reading
Women Up Front
OCF Main Stage features all female-fronted music acts
There’s something just a little bit different about the Main Stage at the Oregon Country Fair this year: Across all three days of the festival, … Continue reading
Navigating River City
Putting on a 1957 play set in 1912 Iowa presents a few sensitivity challenges in 2023. But, oh, those 76 trombones!
When Kirk Boyd signed on to direct The Music Man, which opens Friday, July 7, at The Shedd Institute, he knew right off he’d have … Continue reading
‘The Block is Hot’ for the July First Friday ArtWalk
Black artists will be showcased at The Farmers Market Pavilion July 7
Vibrant artistic and cultural displays from Black artists will be on full display downtown July 7 during a portion of the Eugene First Friday ArtWalk. … Continue reading
Different Ways of Knowing
‘Our Shared Breath’ at JSMA corresponds to a campus-wide Common Reading
Our Shared Breath: Creativity and Community is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through October. The show is part of Common Seeing, … Continue reading
Train Art at a Stop
An exhibit showcasing train graffiti runs through July at the Springfield City Hall Gallery
We’ve all seen them as they crawl in tortoise-like fashion through the crossings of Eugene and Springfield, train cars that are canvases for layers of … Continue reading
Finding Beauty
Q&A with Easy Beauty author and two time Pulitzer-Prize finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
Chloé Cooper Jones’ memoir Easy Beauty is a hit with critics and audiences alike, and in early May was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Jones … Continue reading
A Show For Everyone
The Vaudeville Revival is June 30 at Whirled Pies
Ladies and gentlemen, come on in to witness a blindfolded knife thrower, a snake charmer, a contortionist, a very different take on the classic ballet … Continue reading
A Trip To Eugene to Talk About the Northwest
Author Josephine Woolington, former reporter for The Register-Guard, is at Tsunami Books June 24
The words flow easily. There is an intuitive sense of wonder for all that we take for granted in the Pacific Northwest as well as … Continue reading