No One Puts Baby in the Corner
Dirty Dancing: The Musical! Hits the Hult
What a great and glorious world we live in, when deliciously guilty pleasures from the ’80s are rehashed for the stage: Johnny and Baby are … Continue reading
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Cullen Vance adds Melancholy to OCT’s Melancholy Play
Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play, opening Friday night, Feb. 24, at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, posits an idea that seems utterly un-American: What if it’s OK not … Continue reading
Dreams and Sighs, Wishes and Tears
Eugene Ballet dazzles with two premieres and a beloved favorite
Eugene Ballet’s annual foray into more-contemporary work is always a treat to look forward to, and their performance this weekend was nothing short of breathtaking. … Continue reading
An Oregon painter who once rocked New York City
The Louis Bunce retrospective in Salem looks back to an era when painting mattered
Walk into the luscious new Louis Bunce retrospective at Willamette University’s Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, and you’re immediately confronted with a 1932 … Continue reading
With No More Opera Season, Teen Opera Fans Improvise
Eugene Opera Academy keeps going as the opera itself takes a breather
In the midst of its 40th anniversary season, Eugene Opera announced in January that a $165,000 financial deficit would force cancelation of its spring shows … Continue reading
Questionably Satirical Hip Hop Artist Riff Raff Comes To Cozmic
Riff raff (/rifraf/): disreputable or undesirable people… Riff Raff, the hip hop artist, takes his craft to the truest lengths of that definition. If you … Continue reading
The Spin: From Belly Dance in Eugene to Swan Lake in Portland
The Middle Eastern Dance Group of Eugene, or MEDGE, holds its Annual Alternative Night featuring Ann Shaffer, a member of the fusion dance group Tribalation. … Continue reading
Everything is Political
On the opening track “Appropriation,” from DC punk band Priests’ excellent 2017 release Nothing Feels Normal, vocalist Katie Alice Greer snarls like a toothy Debbie … Continue reading
Attention Must Be Paid
The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky invented the modern suspense thriller with Crime and Punishment, the story of a poor college student who murders his … Continue reading
And, Once More, the And And And Band
After a decade in Portland, Berg Radin, guitarist with indie pop group And And And, has returned to the Eugene/Springfield area, in order to be … Continue reading