Cascades Theatrical Company and 2nd Street Theater are both trying something interesting over the next few weeks. Both theaters are trying something familiar in different and unexpected ways with CTC starting up this season’s first Black Box production and 2nd Street launching its fifth iteration of Evil Dead: The Musical. In each case, the experiment […]
Evil Dead the Musical
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Taking Chances
2nd Street Theater goes for the gut
2nd Street Theater not only has a jam-packed 2016 season, but it still has plenty left for us in 2015 as its Season Showcase demonstrated. The house was full, the audience excited, and the almost three hours of material was very well prepared. For a sneak preview, it was impressive to see all the actors […]
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Top 5 Moments in Local Theater
Les Misérables (Tower Theatre) “From the sumptuous and layered opening notes of ‘At the End of the Day,’ it was very apparent that the months of rehearsal have created not just an excellent piece of theater, but an event unlike any on the Central Oregon stage.” —Jared Rasic, Shakespeare in the Park “With witty fools, […]
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Look Who’s Evil Now
2nd Street Theater revives an annual tradition in the spirit of Christmas
The black box ceiling of 2nd Street Theater is still splattered with blood from the first production of Evil Dead the Musical in 2008. On four occasions, the theater has transformed into the ominous isolated cabin in the woods where five college buddies vacation and accidently discover a force of unspeakable evil in the form […]