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I’m a snob and a sniff and a two-bit dilettante of the lowest rank. For instance, I once dismissed Stephen King as an immature populist … Continue reading
Like so much that descends to us from the rich and fertile period of the late 19th century — Freud, Nietzsche and Marx, to name … Continue reading
Will Eno’s Middletown, playing now at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, is a masterfully written, beautifully produced effort that seeks the extraordinary in the everyday. Directed by … Continue reading
Somewhere during the first act of Jesus Christ Superstar — playing now at Actors Cabaret of Eugene — I realize that basically Jesus is every … Continue reading
Theater is a battleground. As the most atavistic of art forms — live drama in the age of digital clones — theater is in a … Continue reading
words and photos By Meerah Powell When young actors and actresses think of where to kickstart their careers, what often comes to mind is locations … Continue reading
It’s 10 in the morning on a Saturday last spring, and Very Little Theatre has its doors wide open. Hopeful actors sit inside the building, … Continue reading
This year Shakespeare in the Park adapted Henry V for a short outdoor performance directed by Sharon Sèlove. A narrator (David Stuart Bull), sporting awesome … Continue reading
Although roughly the contemporary of those two titans of 19th-century epic Russian literature, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov was great in the minutest of scales, … Continue reading
The trend in Shakespeare performance is to toss off all the “adieus” and “but softs” with the casual tone of a texting teenager. I, for … Continue reading