Puncturing Pretensions
Eugene Opera’s HMS Pinafore sets social satire to spiffy music
As 2018 mercifully closes, there’s so much wrong in our country that a significant portion of the music and theater being created today seems to … Continue reading
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All the World’s a (Kids’) Stage
Local children’s theaters are creating ‘cultural ninjas’
I often feel like I live in my car. Hundreds of miles in a dusty sedan littered with granola-bar wrappers and the sweaty water bottles … Continue reading
Staging the Holidays
A little something for everyone in this year’s offering of Christmas productions by local theaters
The sheer intimacy and immediacy of theater lends itself splendidly to the holidays. It’s as though, facing the stage, we are basking as one in … Continue reading
Ghosts From The Past
Enjoy Christmas music you haven’t actually heard to death
It’s December and, these days, that means omnipresent standard holiday tunes have already crossed the threshold between inspirational nostalgia and annoying oversaturation. So it’s a … Continue reading
Suicidal Tendencies
Comedian addresses dark subject matter in one-man show
Collin Williams doesn’t want to be known as the suicide comic. “Suicide doesn’t define you,” Williams says. “It’s something I needed to talk about. If … Continue reading
An Authentic and Magical Oz
Color and humor bring new life to The Wizard of Oz at Actors Cabaret
Lions and tigers and bears — again? Oh my! Actors Cabaret is hosting Eugene’s second production of The Wizard of Oz in as many months. … Continue reading
Tangled Up in Crude
Puppets prick precious political correctness in UO’s hilarious Avenue Q
It’s hard to imagine that a musical from the early 2000s could be seen as controversial and even outdated for our current political and social … Continue reading
A Pacific Northwest Music Sampler
Annual arts conference hits Eugene with PNW regional artists looking for gigs
For the staff at the downtown Eugene Hilton, it’s just another event filled with people looking at each other’s chest to read names and professions. … Continue reading
Evil Is As Evil Does
Dracula travels back to the source of Bram Stoker’s classic in Very Little Theatre’s excellent production
Steven Dietz’s 1996 adaptation of Dracula maintains a disorienting fidelity to Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, hewing close to the spirit and characterization of the original. … Continue reading
It’s All Happening at the Zoo
America’s alienation never sounded so articulate before Albee
As the lights come up on Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, now making a short run at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, we find ourselves … Continue reading