Got 10 Minutes?
The 11th annual festival of short plays at OCT
Slapstick and studied humor combine with poignant and tender slices of life at the 11th Annual Northwest Festival of 10 Minute Plays, which kicked off … Continue reading
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Under a Cloud of Smoke
Oregon Shakespeare Festival season kicks off amid staff departures and financial loss
When the Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its new season with four plays the weekend of March 8, the real drama may be behind the scenes. … Continue reading
Back to The Beach
Not Ready for Retirement Players present local playwright Paul Calandrino’s Shrimp & Gritts sequel
It’s been a couple of years since Oregon Contemporary Theatre premiered Paul Calandrino’s Shrimp & Gritts: She’s Gone. This week, the Not Ready for Retirement … Continue reading
Eva’s Lament
Theatre League’s Evita not high flying at the Hult
I wanted to love the Theatre League’s Evita, but it is not where it should be. Evita, which played Feb. 16-17 at the Hult Center, … Continue reading
Across the Great Divide
A contemporary rom-com opens at Very Little Theatre on Valentine’s Day
In Minority Voices Theatre’s first-ever fully staged production, an Egyptian cab driver in the U.S. falls in love with a spunky white waitress. Pilgrims Musa … Continue reading
Electra Speaks
Lane brings back a bigger, better version of Oresteia
If you missed Lane Community College’s rock opera Oresteia in 2015, take heart. It’s back — as Electra’s Oresteia — and bigger and better than … Continue reading
West Bank Blues
Eugene playwright explores the thorny politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Checkpoint
Martin Cohen’s intense new drama Checkpoint, which opened Feb. 1 at the Wildish Community Theater in Springfield, meticulously dissects both sides of the conflict that … Continue reading
ABBA is for Everyone
ACE’s production of Mamma Mia! brings out the music’s charm and fun
The film adaptation of Mamma Mia!, starring Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried, might cast quite the shadow on a community theater’s attempt at the ABBA … Continue reading
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Cottage Theatre takes a new look at the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet
Along with being the most accessible and arguably the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet is also something of an outlier among his … Continue reading
A Modernist Masterpiece of a Murderess
University Theatre takes on Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal
Calling all Murderinos! — The University of Oregon is putting on Sophie Treadwell’s hauntingly beautiful expressionistic play Machinal. Inspired by the real-life high-profile murder trial … Continue reading