Got 10 Minutes?
The 11th annual festival of short plays at OCT
Slapstick and studied humor combine with poignant and tender slices of life at the 11th Annual Northwest Festival of 10 Minute Plays, which kicked off … Continue reading
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Under a Cloud of Smoke
Oregon Shakespeare Festival season kicks off amid staff departures and financial loss
When the Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its new season with four plays the weekend of March 8, the real drama may be behind the scenes. … Continue reading
Seeking Harmony
Under new leadership, the Oregon Bach Festival tries to recover from the Halls fiasco
The Oregon Bach Festival is getting a reboot. In the wake of the sudden and controversial firing of popular Artistic Director Matthew Halls in 2017, … Continue reading
Back to The Beach
Not Ready for Retirement Players present local playwright Paul Calandrino’s Shrimp & Gritts sequel
It’s been a couple of years since Oregon Contemporary Theatre premiered Paul Calandrino’s Shrimp & Gritts: She’s Gone. This week, the Not Ready for Retirement … Continue reading
A Graceful Transition
Where others have stumbled, Eugene Ballet takes a lighter approach to the challenge of succession
Four decades ago, Toni Pimble came to Eugene with her then-husband, Riley Grannan, to start a ballet company. It was the 1970s, a time when … Continue reading
Eva’s Lament
Theatre League’s Evita not high flying at the Hult
I wanted to love the Theatre League’s Evita, but it is not where it should be. Evita, which played Feb. 16-17 at the Hult Center, … Continue reading
Love Hurts
EBC and Orchestra Next collaborate on a first-rate Romeo & Juliet
As a little kid in the ’70s, I wore a groove in my parent’s vinyl record of Leonard Bernstein conducting and narrating the New York … Continue reading
Across the Great Divide
A contemporary rom-com opens at Very Little Theatre on Valentine’s Day
In Minority Voices Theatre’s first-ever fully staged production, an Egyptian cab driver in the U.S. falls in love with a spunky white waitress. Pilgrims Musa … Continue reading
Electra Speaks
Lane brings back a bigger, better version of Oresteia
If you missed Lane Community College’s rock opera Oresteia in 2015, take heart. It’s back — as Electra’s Oresteia — and bigger and better than … Continue reading
West Bank Blues
Eugene playwright explores the thorny politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Checkpoint
Martin Cohen’s intense new drama Checkpoint, which opened Feb. 1 at the Wildish Community Theater in Springfield, meticulously dissects both sides of the conflict that … Continue reading