Green, Good and Evil
Broadway hit musical Wicked returns to the Hult Center
Grab your sparkly wands and broomsticks, Eugene. Wicked, the hit musical that riffs on The Wizard of Oz, is flying into the Hult Center for … Continue reading
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Batter Up
The Shedd swings for the fences with Broadway classic Damn Yankees
Modeled after the 1955 original, and directed and choreographed by Richard Jessup, The Shedd’s current production of the American classic Damn Yankees feels like a … Continue reading
Speak of the Devil
Shedd Theatricals 2019 opens this weekend with Damn Yankees
The 18th season of musical theater at The Shedd kicks off Friday, July 12, with the opening of Damn Yankees — one of the oddest … Continue reading
That’s Not Lemonade!
Actors Cabaret revels in sarcasm and potty humor with Urinetown: The Musical
Autzen Stadium wasn’t the only place in town serving up a river of public urination this past weekend. Thankfully, Actors Cabaret of Eugene opened its … Continue reading
All’s Well in Ashland
A reviewer takes in this season’s summer openings on her first visit to OSF
If you haven’t experienced the flag being raised high above the hammerbeam roof of the Allen Elizabethan Theatre just before the show begins at the … Continue reading
The Comedy’s Afoot
VLT stages a cozy whodunnit about a mystery writer
We all love a good classic mystery, the kind of cozy whodunnit in which one of the biggest challenges of life — solving a murder … Continue reading
Chilling in Nebraska
South Eugene drama students will perform new musical at international theater fest
South Eugene High School’s drama department is taking its show on the road this summer — all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. About 40 cast … Continue reading
A Trip to Southie
OCT’s Good People offers serious entertainment
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, at Oregon Contemporary Theatre in a run that’s been extended through June 8, is a classically constructed play … Continue reading
Math Problems
Life is more than a theory in VLT’s production of the Pulitzer-winning drama Proof
Genius is to insanity as freedom is to bondage as family is to isolation as heaven is to hell: These dichotomies fall apart in our … Continue reading
The Music Men
Joe Zingo and Jim Roberts have given Eugene a half century of musical theater
How does a 50-year-long fairytale romance in theater begin? It begins, once upon a time, during a low-budget production of Fiddler on the Roof, of … Continue reading