Jewels: New Vintage Vignettes from BFAN
An actual audience! Performances in front of people! Ballet Fantastique is among the first local art groups to give it a go this weekend when … Continue reading
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Fighting to Vote
Dorothy Velasco’s new short play She Flies With Her Own Wings tells the story of women’s suffrage in Oregon
The story of women’s suffrage in Oregon was made for drama. The leading suffragist here, Portland’s Abigail Scott Duniway, spent decades in the late 19th … Continue reading
VLT Gets a Facelift
Very Little Theatre is being remodeled for the first time since being built in 1950
Eugene’s Very Little Theatre is beginning a $1.5 million renovation next spring, with a $200,000 lead donation from Herb Merker and Marcy Hammock. Designed by … Continue reading
Honey, We Shrunk the Orchestra
Local ensembles keep the sound of music alive with safety precautions
Orchestras are getting smaller, adjusting to the COVID-19 era. But orchestras adapting to the times isn’t new. Gustav Mahler added instruments that were supposed to … Continue reading
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
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