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Theater

Love, Betrayal and Dogs

Free Shakespeare in the Park’s ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ runs through August 24 at Amazon Community Center

Theater 5 days ago

The stars of the show might well be the dogs — Maisie and Brodie, sister-brother golden retrievers. These two cuties take turns playing the canine … Continue reading →

Anyone Can be THEM

The play that shows the everyday people next to battlefields

EW-ExtraTheater 2 weeks ago

“When politics fails, art can save something,” says Malek Najjar, University of Oregon Theatre Arts professor. He is directing award-winning playwright Samah Sabawi’s THEM in … Continue reading →

Productions in the Works

Salem-based Theatre 33 hosts the Regional New Play Summer Festival starting July 29

EW-ExtraTheater 3 weeks ago

The festival is 12 years old, and Thomas Nabhan, executive director of the nonprofit Theatre 33, notes that he and his staff at the Regional … Continue reading →

Shakespearean Salud

Get thee out of town with three Oregon Shakespeare Festival plays this summer season

Theater 3 weeks ago

This summer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, a trio of plays interrogates topics of representation, identity and the power of storytelling, while remaining … Continue reading →

‘MJ The Musical,’ Controversy and Quincy Jones

Josh A. Dawson, who plays Quincy Jones offers his perspective on working with the musical since its beginnings 

EW-ExtraTheater 3 weeks ago

Fewer people have lived lives as fascinating, tragic, bizarre and riddled with controversy as Michael Jackson. He never necessarily chose to be famous, but instead … Continue reading →

A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss

Sarah Ruhl’s back-stage rom-com ‘Stage Kiss’ charms at VLT

EW-ExtraTheater 2 months ago

On a dismal Friday the 13th, as America was sliding ever deeper into the chaos of the corrupt Trump regime, the world’s broken climate was … Continue reading →

‘Nevermore’ Makes Oregon Debut

Cottage Theatre brings Oregon’s first production of gothic musical inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, opening June 6

EW-ExtraTheater 2 months ago

Dark, dreamy and steeped in the shadows of Poe’s imagination, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe opens June 6 at … Continue reading →

Earnestly Wilde About Spaaace

Roving Park Players perform a free rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest throughout Pride Month

Theater 2 months ago

The Importance of Being Earnest… in Spaaace!, performed by the Roving Park Players, delivers probably the freshest look at queer playwright Oscar Wilde’s classic play … Continue reading →

Recasting a Classic

Nearly a century after it premiered, ‘Our Town’ charms audiences in a production with three directors at Oregon Contemporary Theatre

Theater 3 months ago

When Oregon Contemporary Theatre held auditions for a production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a record 100 actors of all ages showed up. The three … Continue reading →

The Return of Cuckoo’s Nest

The play, based on Ken Kesey’s novel and the movie, is at Oakridge’s Zero Clearance Theater May 16 through 18

EW-ExtraTheater 3 months ago

Randle Patrick McMurphy is as charismatic and rebellious as ever, and Nurse Ratched is every bit the iron-fisted manipulative control freak with zero empathy that … Continue reading →

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