Bill Rauch to Leave Oregon Shakespeare Fest in 2019
It was only a matter of time. Bill Rauch, the Harvard educated wunderkind who over the past decade has elevated the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from … Continue reading
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Pas de Deux
Pink Martini and Eugene Ballet will share the Hult Center stage in a collaborative performance
If you’re from this area, it’s probably not too far fetched of an assumption that you have witnessed a performance by the Eugene Ballet Company … Continue reading
Unquiet on the Set
A play hits the skids in Cottage Theatre’s Noises Off
Cottage Theatre’s production of Noises Off is a catastrophe, but don’t worry — that’s exactly the point. This comedy, written by British writer Michael Frayn … Continue reading
Finding the Lost Thread
The Father offers a moving portrait of dementia
There is always a danger, as an artist, in launching forth with a single cause or affliction or ideology and melding it into a work … Continue reading
The Wages of Slavery
A Confederate soldier returns home in VLT’s 'The Whipping Man'
There is much to admire in Matthew Lopez’ The Whipping Man, playing now at Very Little Theatre. This atmospheric period drama is, without a doubt, … Continue reading
Review: The Book of Mormon at the Hult
Funny, profane and not for the uptight
Is there a funnier (or more profane) show running? We don’t think so! And that’s why we’re delighted that Theatre League brought Book of Mormon back for … Continue reading
Imitation of Life
Ushers at a failing movie theater stumble into drama in OCT’s excellent production of The Flick
Annie Baker landed the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for The Flick, an odd and affecting play — part slacker melodrama, part dark comedy, part existential no-exit … Continue reading
Crazy Good Comedy
Maria Bamford’s unique comedy comes to the McDonald
What do compulsive inappropriate thoughts, suicidal tendencies and cute raccoons have in common? They’re all frequent topics of Maria Bamford’s comedy. Bamford brings her unique … Continue reading
Good Bad Taste
The Kinsey Sicks return to Oregon Contemporary Theatre
If you love Donald Trump, you can suck it. Well, certainly you can quit reading this review (though I’m not sure why you even picked … Continue reading
Let There Be Light, and Song, and Dance
Actors Cabaret enters the holiday fray with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Verily, the Old Testament is many things to many people, believers and skeptics and repudiators alike; but one thing it decisively is not is fun, … Continue reading