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Performing Arts: Page 22

Eugene Welcomes Home the Troops 

A dark Bandstand offers 1940s swing and cigarette nostalgia

Theater 6 years ago

Truth be told, I half expected to see a small gathering of MAGA hats in the Hult Center for Bandstand, Broadway’s Tony award-winning musical that … Continue reading →

Pilgrims and Progress

Identity politics get goosed in OCT’s The Thanksgiving Play

Theater 6 years ago

As I sat watching Oregon Contemporary Theatre’s current production of Larissa FastHorse’s cutting and uproarious comedy The Thanksgiving Play, I found myself several times recalling … Continue reading →

Modern Molière Still Just Molière

UO Theatre presents Tartuffe, an absurdist romp through religious piety

Theater 6 years ago

I doubt Molière could have predicted that modern adaptations of his magnum opus would include a social media influencer, but that’s exactly what University of Oregon … Continue reading →

Keeping Score

OrchestraNext’s Brian McWhorter has re-orchestrated Eugene Ballet’s Swan Lake from a mystery recording

Dance 6 years ago

When Eugene Ballet performs Swan Lake Nov. 9 and 10, live music will come from OrchestraNext, a student-professional orchestra conducted by Eugene musician Brian McWhorter.  … Continue reading →

Dance Macabre 

Ballet Fantastique dances a horror show in Nevermore

Dance 6 years ago

Ballet Fantastique thrills and chills with another world premiere, this time in the spirit of the spooky. Nevermore, which ran at the Hult Center Oct. … Continue reading →

A Musical Worth Melting For

Scores of children bring Frozen Jr. to the Eugene stage

Theater 6 years ago

Few things in life match the phenomenon that is Disney’s Frozen, the 2013 hit animated film that lodged “Let It Go” into the darkest depths … Continue reading →

State of Emergency

VLT tilts at Trump with a production of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here

Theater 6 years ago

“Problematic” is one of the more overused and hence meaningless words in the critical/academic lexicon, denoting, with a shrug that is at once coy and … Continue reading →

Waxing Comedic

Another take on Cottage Theatre’s current comic production of Shakespeare (Abridged)

Theater 6 years ago

Expectant chatter filled the scantly renovated Cottage Theatre this past weekend for the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), their first production since last spring. … Continue reading →

Latinx Voices

Dance 6 years ago

In its second season of existence, the dance ensemble Company Movimiento has sharpened its focus to take on the broad topics of social justice for … Continue reading →

The Bard at Mach II

How fast can you read 154 sonnets on a 3x5 card?

Theater 6 years ago

Ah, Shakespeare. The Bard of Avon. The writer whose work forms one of the twin foundations of the entire modern English language. (The other is … Continue reading →

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