The Comedy’s Afoot
VLT stages a cozy whodunnit about a mystery writer
We all love a good classic mystery, the kind of cozy whodunnit in which one of the biggest challenges of life — solving a murder … Continue reading
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Chilling in Nebraska
South Eugene drama students will perform new musical at international theater fest
South Eugene High School’s drama department is taking its show on the road this summer — all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. About 40 cast … Continue reading
Six Husbands, No Estrogen
A comedy show for the aging, and everyone in between
Life is serious business, a lesson learned through hard-fought experience. However, failed marriages and clumsy aging are not to be taken in earnest, according to … Continue reading
A Trip to Southie
OCT’s Good People offers serious entertainment
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, at Oregon Contemporary Theatre in a run that’s been extended through June 8, is a classically constructed play … Continue reading
Good Dirty Fun!
The Bad Girls Comedy Tour lands in Eugene
Three women walk into a bar. One screams “vagina,” another scorns Ronald Reagan and the third puts a spunky twist on whiskey dick. Eugene’s own … Continue reading
A Pharaoh for All Seasons
Beats Antique trades belly dancers for ballerinas in Ballet Fantastique’s Cleopatra
Cleopatra was immortalized in popular culture long before Elizabeth Taylor sported winged eyeliner and Monica Geller cornrows. Yet I’m willing to bet that not too … Continue reading
The 5 Best Things About Eugene
According to YouTube star JP Sears
This weekend, comedian, YouTube star and professional redhead JP Sears comes to the Hult Center. In case you weren’t aware, YouTube is a place where … Continue reading
Math Problems
Life is more than a theory in VLT’s production of the Pulitzer-winning drama Proof
Genius is to insanity as freedom is to bondage as family is to isolation as heaven is to hell: These dichotomies fall apart in our … Continue reading
The Music Men
Joe Zingo and Jim Roberts have given Eugene a half century of musical theater
How does a 50-year-long fairytale romance in theater begin? It begins, once upon a time, during a low-budget production of Fiddler on the Roof, of … Continue reading
A Futuristic Dance With The Past
Eugene Ballet’s Firebird is A haunting blend of Russian folklore
I love life’s little synchronicities, like how a man named Igor created one of the most recognizably creepy compositions in music history. In a dystopian … Continue reading