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I’ve loved Jonatha Brooke since I was 12 years old. I’m not sure what it was about her delicately crafted pop songs and her veneered emotive voice that appealed to an awkward seventh grade girl whose music collection consisted mostly of what I pulled out of my parents jewel-case CD rack and 12 of the […]
Les Misérables is a strange beast. When the musical opened in London in 1985, the reviews were less than kind, with the Sunday Telegraph calling it “A lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness.” Yet tickets for the production were selling in record numbers and public opinion was stellar enough to open the show on […]
A refresher for those of us without art history degrees, Mark Rothko was an early 20th century abstract expressionist painter, inspired deeply by Friedrich Nietzsche, Greek Mythology and the struggle for man to find spirituality in a meaningless world. A hard drinking, dedicated hater of pop art, Rothko and his jaded artistic rants are the […]
In 1954, theatrical producer and director (and founder of the Public Theater!) Joseph Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival, which was initially conceived as a way of making the Bard’s work more accessible to the public. Thus, Shakespeare in the Park was born. It started as a series of workshops for actors and directors […]
For many people, L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz is a collection of firsts. Whether it is the first movie they can ever remember seeing, the first time they remember getting scared (damn flying monkeys) or the first time they ever truly felt the wonder and power of a film. For 75 years, […]
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 […]
For those interested in piercingly beautiful falsettos, earth shaking baritones and storylines so ridiculous they are only rivaled by daytime soaps, but intimidated by the occasional massive running time or the Italian language synonymous with traditional opera, OperaBend presents The Old Maid and the Thief, a one-act performance with an English libretto performed by Eugene’s […]
One of the toughest challenges about producing live theater in Central Oregon is that right when an actor feels like he or she is in that sweet spot—where all the moving parts are perfectly in sync—there are probably only one or two shows left in the run. With a limited number of patrons to fill […]
Sweeney Todd is just your average comedic/dramatic thriller about vengeance, insanity, murder and cannibalism. Yeah, as if that’s a genre! Actually, Sweeney Todd has always been one of the weirdest—and most enduring—shows ever to grace the stages of Broadway or the West End as it swings wildly between camp, comedy, drama and outright horror. Part […]
I finally figured it out: the quintessential element absent from most theatrical productions. This mystery element is simple: a time-traveling dominatrix! I never knew I was missing it until I watched a rehearsal of Cascades Theatrical Company’s Communicating Doors. But now that I’ve seen it, I know that a bit of batshit insanity would make […]
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