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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
After 16 months of tiny audience numbers, virtual shows or nothing at all, Eugene-area performance venues are making a comeback. Local theaters and their leaders … Continue reading
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has had a very rough couple of years. Already hurting from the late summer wildfires whose billowing smoke shut down performances … Continue reading
After a year of dark, empty stages, local theaters have at last begun to open again with live shows on the books as we continue … Continue reading
The story of women’s suffrage in Oregon was made for drama. The leading suffragist here, Portland’s Abigail Scott Duniway, spent decades in the late 19th … Continue reading
Eugene’s Very Little Theatre is beginning a $1.5 million renovation next spring, with a $200,000 lead donation from Herb Merker and Marcy Hammock. Designed by … Continue reading
In the theater world, timing is everything, as Bill Rauch certainly knows. The visionary who ran the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a decade moved to … Continue reading
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
Rule No. 1: All works must be original. No. 2: No breaking anything, including the law. No. 3: Go over five minutes and the lights … Continue reading
Until recently, the threat of coronavirus still seemed distant. Even with several cases in Oregon, life in Eugene went on as normal. Plays and other … Continue reading
For nearly 20 years now, I’ve held a regular gig reviewing local theater productions, first in Seattle and then here in Eugene. What began as … Continue reading
The University of Oregon picked a fine time to produce A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking feminist play that shocked the world for decades after … Continue reading
The Simpsons are responsible for my worldview, more so than any school, church or afterschool group. And as I get older, I start to understand … Continue reading
You can never have enough fringe theater, especially in Eugene, where spontaneity, grotesquerie and a flair for the absurd are major components of our offbeat … Continue reading