Script Revision
The drama at Cottage Theatre has been largely backstage this summer, as the community theater in Cottage Grove shut down in May for a planned … Continue reading
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Shakespeare Goes Telenovela
OSF’s La Comedia of Errors plays with language and borders
The night before I traveled to Ashland for La Comedia of Errors, I finished watching the series finale episode of Jane the Virgin, a self-aware … Continue reading
Standing Up for Science
Podcast host and comic brings science-centric comedy show to Old Nick’s
Midway through his career, comedian Shane Mauss was at a crossroads. He’d already accomplished a lot of what he’d set out to do as a … Continue reading
The Rabbit in the Room
An invisible friend wreaks havoc in VLT’s production of the Mary Chase classic comedy Harvey
In retrospect, it strikes me as odd that I’ve never seen the 1950 film version of Harvey, Mary Chase’s Pulitzer-winning play about a pleasantly eccentric … Continue reading
Late Stage Romance
Retired singles hit the modern dating scene in the heartfelt comedy Kalamazoo
What do widowed people do when their lonely lives are going nowhere and their grown children are nagging them to meet someone? They finally drag … Continue reading
A Touch of Wicked Going On
A high-flying, thrillifying experience from one Emerald City to another
Few things elicit goose bumps like Margaret Hamilton’s puppy-threatening cackle in the original Wizard of Oz. Radioactive skin, a menacing manicure and legions of flying … Continue reading
Green, Good and Evil
Broadway hit musical Wicked returns to the Hult Center
Grab your sparkly wands and broomsticks, Eugene. Wicked, the hit musical that riffs on The Wizard of Oz, is flying into the Hult Center for … Continue reading
Batter Up
The Shedd swings for the fences with Broadway classic Damn Yankees
Modeled after the 1955 original, and directed and choreographed by Richard Jessup, The Shedd’s current production of the American classic Damn Yankees feels like a … Continue reading
Speak of the Devil
Shedd Theatricals 2019 opens this weekend with Damn Yankees
The 18th season of musical theater at The Shedd kicks off Friday, July 12, with the opening of Damn Yankees — one of the oddest … Continue reading
That’s Not Lemonade!
Actors Cabaret revels in sarcasm and potty humor with Urinetown: The Musical
Autzen Stadium wasn’t the only place in town serving up a river of public urination this past weekend. Thankfully, Actors Cabaret of Eugene opened its … Continue reading