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The buzz in Ashland last weekend at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s season openings should, by all rights, have been about Bill Rauch. The popular and … Continue reading
Join us while spring is in the air for a festival to celebrate both the inaugural Fiddlehead Festival and the opening of the new Wildcraft … Continue reading
There are two kinds of people in the world: good people, and self-centered scum who don’t bother to return their grocery carts. The Opal Center’s … Continue reading
Between my two favorite American playwrights, Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard, I find Shepard to be, inexplicably, the more familiar but less accessible of the … Continue reading
On yet another gray and wet Oregon night, the last thing my depression wanted was to be confronted by bubbly optimism. But somehow I managed … Continue reading
Northwest Ten galloped onto the stage of Oregon Contemporary Theatre last weekend, featuring new works from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia playwrights. Dale Light’s These, … Continue reading
Not that anybody’s clamoring for my approval, but let me begin by congratulating Very Little Theatre for daring to step afoul of the staid, risk-averse … Continue reading
Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 fantasia Brigadoon contains all the familiar hallmarks of a seminal mid-20th century musical: romantic complications of a twee and slightly saucy … Continue reading
There is always a danger, as an artist, in launching forth with a single cause or affliction or ideology and melding it into a work … Continue reading
alt-J is coming to the Cuthbert Amphitheater on April 24! Support act will be Twin Shadow. This all ages event has a Reserved Seated area … Continue reading
If you love Donald Trump, you can suck it. Well, certainly you can quit reading this review (though I’m not sure why you even picked … Continue reading
Shock, horror! A three-and-a-half hour reminder about how we haven’t changed much as a society in more than 300 years. My babysitter was none too … Continue reading
Now receiving its world premiere at Oregon Contemporary Theatre under the direction of Elizabeth Helman, Successful Strategies is a romantic comedy set right in the … Continue reading
Playwright Timothy Andrew McIntosh’s latest drama is a strange beast indeed. Part speculative fiction, part old-fashioned detective story, the play runs its course like a … Continue reading
Winner of the 2013 Tony award for best musical, Kinky Boots resonates with audiences worldwide. Based on a true story — the UK’s Steve Pateman was … Continue reading
When I heard that Paul Calandrino had written a new play called My Happy Hour with Pegoda — as in the Dan Pegoda, as in … Continue reading
It was only a matter of time. Bill Rauch, the Harvard educated wunderkind who over the past decade has elevated the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from … Continue reading