Actors Cabaret Dons a New Habit
Sisters doin’ for themselves
In Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love, some sisters could use a little prayer. The convent’s out of cash — no one’s tithing anymore! — … Continue reading
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Standing in the Spotlight
UO’s New Voices features two emerging playwrights
The University of Oregon Theatre Program presents two student plays this weekend and next: The Fruit Stand by Sravya Tadepalli and On the Street Where … Continue reading
In love with Shakespeare
Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival kicks off its season with four new shows
It’s Bill Rauch’s tenth season as artistic director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, and on Saturday morning of opening weekend last month he … Continue reading
The Comfort of Being Sad
The relentless pursuit of happiness is a bittersweet joke
Sarah Ruhl is an interesting playwright. Her work achieves emotional valences that, for me, are completely contradicted by her style — a style I find … Continue reading
Identity Politics
LCC’s excellent student production Constant Revolution takes on sticky issues of authenticity
Identity is a bitch. By the time we’re grown up enough to ask ourselves who we are and what the hell we’re doing with this … Continue reading
Peter and the Starcatcher
Finding the real Neverland in an energetic show at Cottage Theatre
Before there ever lived a boy named Peter Pan, before there existed a place called Neverland, a girl named Molly adventured with three orphan boys … Continue reading
All That Learning Ever Writ
UO Theatre dives into the Restoration with The Emperor of the Moon
Slamming doors, pretending to be statues, hiding under tables: These theatrical devices are as old as theater itself, and they’re in great supply in J.K. … Continue reading
You Are Not Special
ACE’s Avenue Q is Sesame Street for the millennial generation
Long-running PBS series (now on HBO) Sesame Street teaches children the fundamentals: ABCs and 123s, but also the principles of sharing, self-confidence and acceptance of … Continue reading
Romeo & Juliet
Downtown Springfield is in the midst of a renaissance and, as Judith “Sparky” Roberts of Fools Haven Acting Company notes, “nothing fits better with the … Continue reading
Dial M for Mayhem
OCT’s The 39 Steps plays fast and loose with Alfred Hitchcock
What makes Hitchcock Hitchcock? Or, put more fancifully, what do we mean when we call something Hitchcockian? Certainly the British director of such classics of … Continue reading