Everyone is looking for something different in their Christmas and the holiday season in general. For some, it’s a way to get some time off of school or work, and for others it’s a time to reflect on what they’re grateful for while surrounded by friends and family. The holidays can also be a rough […]
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Good Vibrations
“In the Next Room” is a beautiful night of theater
There are some plays where it’s very easy to know exactly what you’re going to get going into them. If it’s a farce you know you’re going to get some broad belly laughs and a goofy, convoluted story. But with Sara Ruhl’s “In the Next Room”—known less formally as The Vibrator Play, everything I knew […]
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Southern Gothic
Glass Menagerie opens at CTC
Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is not easy theater. The play forces its audience members to step into a family life so intimate and revealing that it can shed light on our own situations we might not be comfortable examining. It is easy to draw comparisons to one’s own familial relationships and either find ourselves […]
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PICK: God of Carnage
friday 26 God of Carnage THEATER—In what boils down to an 80-minute argument between two sets of parents, this originally French play by Yasmina Reza spans the spectrum of human emotion, social class and philosophy. After a tooth-loosing altercation between the couple’s sons, the pairs from different sides of the tracks are forced together to […]
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Eugene Comes to Bend
Brighton Beach Memoirs opens at CTC
Playwright Neil Simon can sometimes get a bad rap. It is easy to pick on him for being the poster boy of “safe” and “easy” theater because of his shows like Barefoot in the Park and Sweet Charity. Most of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, in thier liftime, never achieved even a modicum […]
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PICK: CTC Sneak Peek
sunday 3 CTC Sneak Peek THEATER—There are a lot of reasons why people don’t like to go to live theater, one being, the play might be terrible. Cascades Theatrical Company has remedied the terror of not knowing what you’re getting yourself into by providing a preview of its entire 36th season, including excerpts from school for Scandal, […]
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Cascade Theatrical Company Announces 36th Season Lineup
Cascade Theatrical Company, who make their home at the Greenwood Playhouse next to Silver Moon Brewing downtown has offered the Source a sneak peak a the lineup for its 36th season starting in August. CTC will be hosting Sneak Peek performances on Aug. 1 and 3 to showcase the upcoming productions with introductions from the […]