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Theater: Page 5

Shakespeare Returns

After a pandemic pause, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back with five live, non-Zoom plays. EW checks out four of them.

Theater 2 years ago

Three years after the start of the pandemic, still beset by wildfire smoke, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back. Facing deep losses at the box … Continue reading →

The Show Does Go On

As theater around the country faces an existential crisis, theater around Eugene is mostly going strong

Theater 2 years ago

Nonprofit theaters in Oregon and around the country are going dark, staff members are being laid off and seasons are being shortened as audiences have … Continue reading →

Theater to Die For

Ira Levin’s Deathtrap opens August 4 at the Wildish

Theater 2 years ago

Right when playwright Sidney Bruhl is overdue for a hit show, he finds a chance to rise to the top once more, but this time … Continue reading →

Puppet Masters of the Universe

Ashland-based adult puppet theater troupe brings a touch of musical horror to Eugene

Theater 2 years ago

For Josh Gross, musical theater was just too unrealistic — he couldn’t get over all the spontaneous singing and dancing in unison. He chose puppet-horror-musical … Continue reading →

A Brilliant Con Job

The Shedd’s Music Man marches straight into the heart 

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Once in a while professional stage director Kirk Boyd comes out of retirement to give local theater lovers a welcome taste of his theatrical magic. … Continue reading →

See ‘Rent’ at ACE While You Still Can

Actors Cabaret of Eugene holds its last performances of the popular musical Friday and Saturday, July 7 and 8

ArtsMusicTheater 2 years ago

A group of young artists in Lower Manhattan’s East Village fight to survive the struggles of the ’80s — AIDS, greed and love — in … Continue reading →

Navigating River City

Putting on a 1957 play set in 1912 Iowa presents a few sensitivity challenges in 2023. But, oh, those 76 trombones!

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When Kirk Boyd signed on to direct The Music Man, which opens Friday, July 7, at The Shedd Institute, he knew right off he’d have … Continue reading →

Oregon Contemporary Theatre unveils a biting new comedy

Explore cultural appropriation and food all at once in 'Colonialism Is Terrible, But Phở Is Delicious' at OCT May 19 through June 4. 

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The satiric comedy provides insight into historical colonialism conflicts and the traditional Vietnamese dish, phở. The story begins in 1880s French Indochina, where a willful … Continue reading →

COVID Shuts Down ‘Cat Lady’

Several cast members said to have come down sick after VLT show

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Performances of the Jen Ferro comedy Cat Lady have been canceled at Very Little Theatre after several cast members tested positive for COVID, the theater … Continue reading →

The World According to Cats 

Jen Ferro’s ‘Cat Lady’ at VLT has claws but could use development

ArtsTheater 2 years ago

Stage Left at The Very Little Theatre is proving to be an incubator for new plays by local playwrights. Cat Lady, a comedy by Eugene … Continue reading →

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