Ballet On The Green — Preview Night
They will have to avoid the rough, the sand traps and water hazards, but if the dancers of Ballet Fantastique stay on the green, they … Continue reading
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Getting Back on Stage
After half a year on hiatus, Eugene’s performing arts groups seek a path back to live audiences
Live performance all but died in and around Eugene more than six months ago. That’s when the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in Oregon, … Continue reading
Post-Pandemic Performance
Former OSF head Bill Rauch talks Zoom, making new arts world connections and what the new normal might mean for live theater
In the theater world, timing is everything, as Bill Rauch certainly knows. The visionary who ran the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a decade moved to … Continue reading
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
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