All Eugene’s A Stage
Looking for fleeting drama in the upcoming theater season
Theater is a battleground. As the most atavistic of art forms — live drama in the age of digital clones — theater is in a … Continue reading
Performing Arts: Page 36
Sister Act
Three Cottage Grove sisters charm their way into the local theater spotlight
words and photos By Meerah Powell When young actors and actresses think of where to kickstart their careers, what often comes to mind is locations … Continue reading
Very Little Theatre
In business for nine decades, VLT keeps training actors and turning out shows
It’s 10 in the morning on a Saturday last spring, and Very Little Theatre has its doors wide open. Hopeful actors sit inside the building, … Continue reading
Shakespeare in the Park brings ‘Henry V’ outdoors
This year Shakespeare in the Park adapted Henry V for a short outdoor performance directed by Sharon Sèlove. A narrator (David Stuart Bull), sporting awesome … Continue reading
Lost in Moscow
Chekhov’s stories come alive in Cottage Theatre production of Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor
Although roughly the contemporary of those two titans of 19th-century epic Russian literature, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov was great in the minutest of scales, … Continue reading
All the World’s a Stage
Hipsters meets hippies in VLT’s As You Like It
The trend in Shakespeare performance is to toss off all the “adieus” and “but softs” with the casual tone of a texting teenager. I, for … Continue reading
The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this month
Props to the city of Eugene for heeding the call for innovative, accessible dance programming in our community. This summer has featured a variety of … Continue reading
Good News!
Shedd Theatricals revives a seldom-seen Broadway show
The year is 1927. The Great War, which we now remember as World War I, is a distant memory. The stock market is booming. Life … Continue reading
The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this month
One of the coolest things about summer is dance performances happening outside in the fresh air and sunshine — there’s something about it that just … Continue reading
Catastrophically Funny
Actors Cabaret of Eugene's Disaster! is anything but
I was born in 1995. I was 6 when the Twin Towers fell, and only 10 when Hurricane Katrina hit. This last presidential election was … Continue reading