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Bend native Gavin Douglas is an actor. A real one. The kind of actor that does not remember why he wanted to act in the first place because it’s what he has always done for as long as he can remember. “I did a play in kindergarten, and then did one every year because it […]
2nd Street Theater is now in the business of taking chances. When Maralyn Thoma first opened the theater, its slate of shows leaned toward safer fare, like Greater Tuna and Dracula. But when the space fell into dire financial straights several years ago, they threw caution to the wind and started experimenting. With Evil Dead: […]
I Remember You is a play about embracing nostalgia in doses. It is easy to get caught up in memories of a glorious past until all that is left are recently polished trophies and a contact list made up of people you don’t know anymore. Deep in that sense of ennui is where we meet […]
The first three plays written by Cricket Daniel evoke a feeling more than they inspire emotion. The feeling of watching an 8-10 pm sitcom block with family, sprawled out on the couch, after a giant dinner. Her characters are archetypical with flashes of heart, but mostly serve as joke delivery machines and to accentuate the […]
There’s a reason why the week leading up to opening night of a show is called “Hell Week.” Quite simply, it is not pleasant. Usually, those final days are spent adding the final drops of paint to the set, hanging lights and setting cues so the actors aren’t standing in the dark and mostly just […]
One of the most important elements of theater is confidence—as in confidence that the show being put on is going to transport the audience into a fabricated otherworld. Without, actors are just lying to a group of total strangers for two hours, hoping that when it’s all over they can get to their car without […]
The fluttering flutes and unyielding violins rise and fall as an army of pirouetting rats clash with leaping toy soldiers. It’s a familiar scene when Clara flies to the aide of her Nutcracker—her favorite Christmas gift come to life—and throws her slipper at the Rat King. She and her prince then escape to the beautiful […]
Playwright Ken Ludwig employs just about every trope of the stage to get laughs in his holiday mystery The Game’s Afoot. One of the most successful is a “Who’s on First” style gag in which a gasping and nearly murdered house guest tries to point out to the delusional homeowner William Gillette (played by Justin […]
RuPaul is arguably the best-known drag queen in the United States, which is to say he is probably the only female impersonator the average American can name. That, however, is slowly changing: Starting in 2009, RuPaul has hosted his Logo reality TV show Drag Race, a sort of America’s Next Top Model for drag performers. […]
“I’m not some kind of goth, just so you know,” Alastair Morley Jaques asserts. “I’m an alarmingly happy and optimistic person.” But for the past five Halloweens, Jacques has taken on the personality of a man fascinated by death and darkness—poet and author Edgar Allen Poe. The 31-year-old father of two studied theater at Evergreen […]
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