A Legacy in Dance
Meet the Bontragers of Ballet Fantastique
Hannah and Ashley Bontrager were practically born into the arts, dancing before they could walk. “Not a lot of girls get to grow up … Continue reading
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A Steampunk Shrew
Eugene artist Joseph Mross designs the look for a Eugene Ballet production next year of Taming of the Shrew
Leave it to Eugene Ballet to pull off a steampunk adaptation of Shakespeare’s most controversial play, Taming of the Shrew. That’s right, you read that … Continue reading
Virtually Shameless
Eugene’s No Shame Theatre remotely celebrates 11 years, broadcasting on Facebook Live
Rule No. 1: All works must be original. No. 2: No breaking anything, including the law. No. 3: Go over five minutes and the lights … Continue reading
Ballet Fantastique’s Alice in Wonderland Watch Party
It starts with the troubling and recurring dream as well as the mourning of the loss of her father. She attends a stifling high-society garden … Continue reading
Baritone on Aisle Three
Calvin Orlando Smith sings his way through life
One night nearly three decades ago, following a performance of Evita in which he had sung several ensemble roles, Calvin Orlando Smith stepped out on … Continue reading
Show, Interrupted
The cast of VLT’s Little Women auditioned, rehearsed and had a final dress. Then the show was halted before opening night
Until recently, the threat of coronavirus still seemed distant. Even with several cases in Oregon, life in Eugene went on as normal. Plays and other … Continue reading
Celtic Nintendo Ballet
Dragon and the Night Queen takes flight despite injuries
Ballet Fantastique danced with multi-mythological ambitions on wounded wings in Dragon and the Night Queen, an original ballet that pairs nicely with a Guinness. With … Continue reading
All’s Well in Ashland
A reviewer takes in this season’s summer openings on her first visit to OSF
If you haven’t experienced the flag being raised high above the hammerbeam roof of the Allen Elizabethan Theatre just before the show begins at the … Continue reading
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Housekeeping
A pair of 50-something women negotiate a strange cohabitation in OCT’s comedy The Roommate
For nearly 20 years now, I’ve held a regular gig reviewing local theater productions, first in Seattle and then here in Eugene. What began as … 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
Being Squidward Tentacles
Head to The SpongeBob Musical’s Eugene performances to see one of TV’s best cartoons come to life
The Simpsons are responsible for my worldview, more so than any school, church or afterschool group. And as I get older, I start to understand … Continue reading
Moodlight Theater
You can never have enough fringe theater, especially in Eugene, where spontaneity, grotesquerie and a flair for the absurd are major components of our offbeat … Continue reading
Hollywood Radio
Radio Redux brings back a movie classic, minus the silver screen
Several first timers (including yours truly) filled the Hult Center’s Soreng Theater this past weekend at Radio Redux’s one-weekend run of the Hollywood classic Sunset … Continue reading
Murder in the Grove
Cottage Theatre presents Arsenic and Old Lace
Cottage Theatre opens its 2020 season with new seats and an absurd, slow start. Let me be clear: It’s supposed to be slow. Directed by … Continue reading