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Performing Arts: Page 5

Bordering Hilarity 

Libyan activist-turned-comedian with Portland roots to perform at Wildish Theater on June 6 

Comedy 10 months ago

“I don’t know how to make this shit funny,” comedian Mohanad Elshieky says about his initial attempts to include an anecdote about being wrongfully stopped … Continue reading →

Earnestly Wilde About Spaaace

Roving Park Players perform a free rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest throughout Pride Month

Theater 10 months ago

The Importance of Being Earnest… in Spaaace!, performed by the Roving Park Players, delivers probably the freshest look at queer playwright Oscar Wilde’s classic play … Continue reading →

Insane in the Kinane

Portland via L.A. comic Kyle Kinane performs a three-night stand at Olsen Run Comedy Club & Lounge in Eugene

ComedyEW-Extra 10 months ago

Comic Kyle Kinane likes college towns. “They’re more self-sufficient,” he tells Eugene Weekly in a phone call from Portland, where he lives: Fewer big box … Continue reading →

Fairy Tale on Pointe 

Oregon Ballet Academy brings a playful, heartfelt ‘Snow White’ to the LCC Performance Hall

DanceEW-Extra 10 months ago

Oregon Ballet Academy brings a beloved fairy tale to life onstage at Lane Community College’s Ragozzino Performance Hall with Snow White and the Seven Dancing … Continue reading →

Recasting a Classic

Nearly a century after it premiered, ‘Our Town’ charms audiences in a production with three directors at Oregon Contemporary Theatre

Theater 10 months ago

When Oregon Contemporary Theatre held auditions for a production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a record 100 actors of all ages showed up. The three … Continue reading →

The Return of Cuckoo’s Nest

The play, based on Ken Kesey’s novel and the movie, is at Oakridge’s Zero Clearance Theater May 16 through 18

EW-ExtraTheater 11 months ago

Randle Patrick McMurphy is as charismatic and rebellious as ever, and Nurse Ratched is every bit the iron-fisted manipulative control freak with zero empathy that … Continue reading →

Finally Recognized

The founder of Xcape Dance Academy is named the 2025 Eugene Arts and Letters Award recipient for her decades of community impact and artistic leadership

DanceNews 11 months ago

Vanessa Fuller — dancer, choreographer and longtime advocate for community arts — has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Eugene Arts and Letters … Continue reading →

Transforming Ballet

Fermata Ballet Collective, winner of this year’s Arts and Business Alliance visionary award, is diversifying ballet

Dance 11 months ago

Eugene’s Fermata Ballet Collective is transforming the local ballet scene by telling the story of those who normally might not have their story told, its … Continue reading →

Aladdin: The Rock Opera

Aladdin turned rock ballet performance Mother’s Day weekend

Dance 11 months ago

What if ballet was performed to rock? Or, as Ballet Fantastique asks, “What if Aladdin had a soundtrack by Queen?” This Mother’s Day weekend, the … Continue reading →

Join the Entourage

Actor Jeremy Piven, best known for roles in shows like Entourage and Mr. Selfridge, performs standup comedy at the McDonald Theatre April 26 in Eugene

Comedy 11 months ago

On stage, actor Jeremy Piven excels at roles like Hollywood agent Ari Gold from the smash hit TV series Entourage, which ran for eight seasons … Continue reading →

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