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Theater

From ‘Shy’ to Hilarious

The Non-Stop Players hit all the right notes in the musical ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

EW-ExtraTheater 9 hours ago

Perfect casting all around produced fine-tuned dancing, exquisite singing and spot-on acting. It was enough to bring a smile to everyone’s face and forget for … Continue reading →

A ’90s Mixtape Meets The Bard

‘Midsummer, A Musical,’ an original production, begins August 15 at Pegasus Playhouse in Springfield

Theater 21 hours ago

The Bard has enjoyed center stage this summer with several community theater groups, and now it’s Pegasus Playhouse’s turn. On August 15, Pegasus in downtown … Continue reading →

Love, Betrayal and Dogs

Free Shakespeare in the Park’s ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ runs through August 24 at Amazon Community Center

Theater 1 week ago

The stars of the show might well be the dogs — Maisie and Brodie, sister-brother golden retrievers. These two cuties take turns playing the canine … Continue reading →

Anyone Can be THEM

The play that shows the everyday people next to battlefields

EW-ExtraTheater 2 weeks ago

“When politics fails, art can save something,” says Malek Najjar, University of Oregon Theatre Arts professor. He is directing award-winning playwright Samah Sabawi’s THEM in … Continue reading →

Productions in the Works

Salem-based Theatre 33 hosts the Regional New Play Summer Festival starting July 29

EW-ExtraTheater 3 weeks ago

The festival is 12 years old, and Thomas Nabhan, executive director of the nonprofit Theatre 33, notes that he and his staff at the Regional … Continue reading →

Shakespearean Salud

Get thee out of town with three Oregon Shakespeare Festival plays this summer season

Theater 3 weeks ago

This summer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, a trio of plays interrogates topics of representation, identity and the power of storytelling, while remaining … Continue reading →

‘MJ The Musical,’ Controversy and Quincy Jones

Josh A. Dawson, who plays Quincy Jones offers his perspective on working with the musical since its beginnings 

EW-ExtraTheater 3 weeks ago

Fewer people have lived lives as fascinating, tragic, bizarre and riddled with controversy as Michael Jackson. He never necessarily chose to be famous, but instead … Continue reading →

A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss

Sarah Ruhl’s back-stage rom-com ‘Stage Kiss’ charms at VLT

EW-ExtraTheater 2 months ago

On a dismal Friday the 13th, as America was sliding ever deeper into the chaos of the corrupt Trump regime, the world’s broken climate was … Continue reading →

‘Nevermore’ Makes Oregon Debut

Cottage Theatre brings Oregon’s first production of gothic musical inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, opening June 6

EW-ExtraTheater 2 months ago

Dark, dreamy and steeped in the shadows of Poe’s imagination, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe opens June 6 at … Continue reading →

Earnestly Wilde About Spaaace

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

Theater 3 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 →

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