Pebbles in the Pond
Local High School Remembers Mathew Shepard
If you want to feel hope for the future, I recommend interviewing South Eugene High School theater students. Emma Mowry and Jakobi Luke, both seniors, … Continue reading
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Theater is the Life for You
Humor and melancholy mingle in VLT’s production of Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds from Broadway
I’m a snob and a sniff and a two-bit dilettante of the lowest rank. For instance, I once dismissed Stephen King as an immature populist … Continue reading
The Killer Inside
Director Mark VanBeever delves into the exquisite evil of Jekyll & Hyde
Like so much that descends to us from the rich and fertile period of the late 19th century — Freud, Nietzsche and Marx, to name … Continue reading
What’s the Deal with Everything on Earth?
OCT opens its season with playwright Will Eno’s masterful Middletown
Will Eno’s Middletown, playing now at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, is a masterfully written, beautifully produced effort that seeks the extraordinary in the everyday. Directed by … Continue reading
What’s the Buzz?
Actors Cabaret goes all out with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar
Somewhere during the first act of Jesus Christ Superstar — playing now at Actors Cabaret of Eugene — I realize that basically Jesus is every … Continue reading
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
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