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I often feel like I live in my car. Hundreds of miles in a dusty sedan littered with granola-bar wrappers and the sweaty water bottles … Continue reading
As a little kid in the ’70s, I wore a groove in my parent’s vinyl record of Leonard Bernstein conducting and narrating the New York … Continue reading
In Minority Voices Theatre’s first-ever fully staged production, an Egyptian cab driver in the U.S. falls in love with a spunky white waitress. Pilgrims Musa … Continue reading
If you missed Lane Community College’s rock opera Oresteia in 2015, take heart. It’s back — as Electra’s Oresteia — and bigger and better than … Continue reading
Martin Cohen’s intense new drama Checkpoint, which opened Feb. 1 at the Wildish Community Theater in Springfield, meticulously dissects both sides of the conflict that … Continue reading
The film adaptation of Mamma Mia!, starring Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried, might cast quite the shadow on a community theater’s attempt at the ABBA … Continue reading
Along with being the most accessible and arguably the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet is also something of an outlier among his … Continue reading
The sheer intimacy and immediacy of theater lends itself splendidly to the holidays. It’s as though, facing the stage, we are basking as one in … Continue reading
Calling all Murderinos! — The University of Oregon is putting on Sophie Treadwell’s hauntingly beautiful expressionistic play Machinal. Inspired by the real-life high-profile murder trial … Continue reading
Cottage Theatre kicks off its 2019 season this weekend with a traditional production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Tony Rust. Before becoming … Continue reading
Whatever your particular feelings might be about the reality or unreality of ghosts, you must admit: A ghost is a fantastic literary device. To the … Continue reading
Theresa Rebeck’s one-act play The Understudy, which opened Jan. 18 for a three-week run at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, appears on the surface to offer a … Continue reading
In a world of constant political tension and polarized opinions surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martin Cohen’s new play Checkpoint seeks to bridge the gap of … Continue reading
I have a confession: I never really liked The Lion King. As a child of the ’90s and subsequently Disney’s Renaissance period, I was obsessed … Continue reading