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
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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
Up in the Alps
Cottage Theatre closes its current season with an epic production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic The Sound of Music
Cottage Theatre is bidding auf Wiedersehen to its home of 20 years with a mountainous send off via The Sound of Music. Once the legendary … Continue reading
Doin’ the Watusi
ACE’s production of the musical Beehive raises girl talent to the flower power
Spring is in the air and so is the hairspray in Actor Cabaret’s production of Larry Gallagher’s off-Broadway revue Beehive. ACE veteran Ashley Apelzin makes … Continue reading
A Modern Midwest Thriller
Bennett Fisher’s suspenseful drama Damascus takes on the dangers of implicit and explicit bias
I was able to experience my first show at the Oregon Contemporary Theatre this past weekend for the West Coast premiere of Bennett Fisher’s modern … Continue reading
Lost in Yonkers
VLT mines the myth of simpler times in the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!
Imagine living in an era of this American continent when being “half a millionaire” was more than enough juice to make you the leading citizen … Continue reading
A Defining Moment in Ashland
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival launches its final season under Bill Rauch
Beleaguered by financial woes from last season’s wildfires, whose smoke caused cancellations of a couple dozen outdoor performances, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival kicked off its … Continue reading