Expectant chatter filled the scantly renovated Cottage Theatre this past weekend for the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), their first production since last spring.
Bony bums wary of generic folding chairs currently filling the aisles, Shakespearean novices dreading the impending iambic pentameter and “why is there a Triceratops on the stage?” — original plans for an extensive facelift were somewhat botched when construction costs suddenly doubled, a major setback for executive director Susan Goes and the rest of the team over at the small Cottage Grove theater.
In a delightfully ironic twist, Cottage Theatre braves the remodeling storm with a frenzied improvisational tornado, so ridiculous that all you can do is laugh and collect your continental chocolate.
Written by Reduced Shakespeare Company founders Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is the creatively condensed outline of Shakespeare’s entire catalog, heavily dependent on ad-libbing, collaborative cohesion and frequent, if not anxiety producing, audience participation. Though the structure and general script remains constant, no two shows are ever the same.
Directed by Rachel Froom and brilliantly performed by only three actors — Chelsy Megli, Blake Nelson and Kory Weimer — Cottage Theatre’s production is the self-effacing senior college student seeking revenge on her fellow Shakespearean scholars. The show is a parody of Shakespeare as much as it is an homage.
Preeminent scholars can take the night off. The play is bookended by two of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, making it accessible to those who are intimate with Shakespeare’s work as well as those who fall under the category of left brain engineers (I’m married to one).
The bare-bones set consists of a projection screen, allowing the players to travel distant lands, along with a few enchanted prop trunks filled with a converted basement’s imagination. Megli, Nelson and Weimer wear a blank canvas of Converse tennis shoes and Scrooge-ish nightshirts. Tiaras, golf clubs, the unending silk scarves of a clown, bad wigs, pointy swords, shiny capes, simple sunglasses and a couple of kilts make up the majority of the minimalist costumer’s closet (props by Glenda Koyama and costume design Rhonda Turnquist).
As a marathon of skits — including an excessive amount of vomit but just the right amount of dick jokes — the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a sloppy albeit hilarious Mel Brooksian compilation. A Romeo and Juliet Western bleeds into a gory Titus Andronicuscooking show. Marginal accents, including a Scottish/Australian hybrid and a hairless Groundskeeper Willie, make up Macbeth.
The comedies are lumped into a convoluted cache of gender-hopping marriage plots, while the histories are acted out in a frantic, rotating football game. Naturally, Hamlet in all its Freudian duplicities takes up the entire second act, with a heavy and sometimes slow emphasis on audience participation.
Cottage Theatre’s production is a ceaseless romp through funny town, though a couple of experimental, par-for-the-course sour strokes were felt in the night. A Stranger Things reference went over the greying heads of season ticket holders, and a couple of Jewish jokes drew some pained gasps, though the Italian epithets went by unnoticed — who could blame them?
Despite the renovation woes in the CT community, all is well on the small stage. A Bardy bravo to the entire creative team for an immersive, imaginative and supremely funny production, no doubt a sign of good things to come.
Get your tickets now all you Shakespeare lovers and haters— You will not want to miss the fun.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)[Revised] plays through Oct. 27 at Cottage Theatre; info, times and tickets at cottagetheatre.org.
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The show must go on, even when everything goes wrong. For Oregon Contemporary Theatre’s upcoming production of The Play That Goes Wrong, directed by John Schmor, that’s just a part of the theatrics.
It’s Wednesday night on August 28. Downtown Eugene is quiet, but OCT’s playhouse is filled with laughter. “Part of what we’re laughing at are actors struggling to solve accidents that are happening, and part of what we’re laughing at is the ridiculousness of the plot of the play that they’re doing,” Schmor says.
And, oh, this play is ridiculous.
Complete with collapsing walls, intentionally misplaced props and doors flying off the hinges — everything, including the set, is designed to make you laugh.
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“Places,” Schmor’s direction echoes throughout the theater.
“Lights down,” says Riley Allen, the stage manager, “Lights up.”
It’s time to rehearse the play, including most of the completed special effects so the actors can get used to their marks. The play will hit OCT’s stage on Sept. 13 and run through Sept. 29. Evening performances begin at 7:30 pm while matinees start at 2 pm.
Amy Dunn, OCT’s production manager and master carpenter, says this is the first time they’ve built any kind of set like this in the theater.
“Usually, we do stationary sets with just minor moving pieces. This one’s definitely a challenge,” Dunn says.
During the rehearsal, a door flew off its hinges, about one act too early. Initially, it was very unclear to watchers if that was a part of the play or not.
Schmor says, “The gags are kind of embedded in what the set does. We have to just start early, but that’s been the fun of it.”
“It’s just challenging these wonderful actors who make me laugh really hard every night,” he says.
For Schmor, laughter is the goal with this production.
The Play That Goes Wrong is a play about a production of The Murder at Haversham Manor, which is inspired by every cliche, trope and platitude in the murder mystery genre.
Produced by the aptly named Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society — the fake company with its faux director Chris Bean, played by Russell Dyball — the play inspired hits like Two Sisters, James and the Peach, and the Lion and the Wardrobe.
“I don’t think this play has necessarily got a philosophical position about the meaning of theater,” Schmor says. “It’s a farce, a theater farce.”
That’s the fun part. The audience is always in on the joke.
Josh Simpson, who plays Max, says it brings out one of the funniest parts about theater. “A fun part of theater that’s maybe not embraced a whole lot, that the show is kind of entirely centered around, is that it’s kind of fun when things go wrong,” Simpson says. “It kind of makes the experience fun and human.”
Simpson — like many, if not all other actors — has had something go wrong while performing in front of an audience.
He recalls the time he was in the Wizard of Oz and another actor playing Uncle Henry accidentally broke his lantern prop. That actor then said, while hot-mic’d, “fuck this shit” to a theater filled with grade schoolers playing the Munchkins while parents looked on in horror.
Simpson then remembers saying, “Dorothy, is that you?”
It’s all about pretending to be a part of a troupe desperately trying to get the show to work.
With a comedy and tragedy mask tattooed on his left shoulder and a faded Superman tank top, Simpson says that if he thinks the character he is playing is a bad actor, it won’t be funny.
Phoebe Thompson plays the fake stage manager, Annie, who is eventually forced out onto the stage to take over for an actor who was knocked out by the set. “I’ve grown up knowing stage managers who, if they were put into this position, would be so upset that they would have to do it,” they say.
Thompson has had plenty go wrong for themselves on stage, and not intentionally. “It seems to always be props or a costume malfunction. I once had my bottoms just drop on stage,” Thompson says.
Every rehearsal, every night brings it on set of challenges, but Thompson says that allows them to make the play that much more hilarious. “It’s like constantly what else can we add to this? How can we continue to build?,” they say.
“I love coming up with bits together,” Thompson says. “I’m a sucker for a shtick.”
To purchase tickets, go to OCTheatre.org or call 541-465-1506. The Play That Goes Wrong runs Sept. 13 to Sept. 29 at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 194 West Broadway. Previews are Sept. 11-12. Prices $25-$50, students $20 and preview nights are name your own price.
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Fall is on its way, and change is in the air in Eugene’s performing arts world. Just in the past year or two Eugene Symphony, Oregon Mozart Players, Eugene Opera and Very Little Theatre have all named new executive directors.
That’s mostly behind the scenes. More visible to the audience will be the changes taking place at Eugene Symphony and Oregon Mozart Players as both groups select new music directors to stand on the podium and lead their orchestras.
Hired in 2017, Francesco Lecce-Chong is stepping down as music director and conductor of Eugene Symphony — he’s taking on the new title “artistic partner” for the season — sparking a selection process that is about to bring five finalists to the Hult Center to conduct parallel programs over the next five months.
Each program will feature a different Beethoven piano concerto as well as a full-length symphony.
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Designed by Eugene attorney and arts supporter Roger Saydack, the symphony’s intricate selection process has been used, with various refinements, since 1989, when it brought in a little known young conductor named Marin Alsop to lead the orchestra. Her subsequent international fame — followed by the success of conductors such as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, who went on to lead the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Giancarlo Guerrero, a six-time Grammy winner now heading into his 16th and final season at the helm of the Nashville Symphony — helped spur widespread interest in Eugene as an early-career launch pad for aspiring conductors. The word is certainly out: The symphony received 177 applications for the post being vacated by Lecce-Chong.
The first of the five finalist concerts will be Oct. 24, when Alexander Prior conducts a program that includes Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8.
The British-born Prior was chief conductor of Canada’s Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Alberta from 2017 to 2022. Among his other distinctions is a love for country music; in 2022 the Edmonton Symphony released a video of an orchestral version, conducted by Prior, of Ian Tyson’s country classic “Four Strong Winds,” which, of course, contains the line “Guess I’ll go out to Alberta, weather’s good there in the fall……”
On Nov. 21, Farkhad Khudyev will conduct a program that includes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
Born in Turkmenistan, Khudyev studied at Interlochen Arts Academy before receiving a bachelor of music degree at Oberlin Conservatory. He has a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Yale University. Currently, he is music director of the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and of the Orchestral Institute at the Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts in Carmel, California.
Third up in the podium run-off is Rory Macdonald, who will conduct Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 on Dec. 12.
Not to be confused with the better-known MMA fighter of the same name, Macdonald was born in Scotland and studied at Cambridge University. He has conducted orchestras around the world, including the Oslo Philharmonic and London Philharmonic. He has an extensive background in conducting opera, and has worked as an assistant conductor at the Opéra National de Lyon and Opéra National de Paris.
The sole woman among the five finalists is Canadian Tania Miller, who will conduct a program featuring Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 on Jan. 23. Born in the tiny town of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, she is currently artistic director and conductor of Brott Music Festival and its two national Canadian training programs, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and Brott Opera. She has conducted such orchestras as Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and lives in Vancouver, B.C.
The last of the five to conduct at the Hult, Taichi Fukumura, is currently music director of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. He will be on the podium Feb. 13 for a program that includes Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 as well as Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. Born in Tokyo, Fukumura has degrees from Boston University and Northwestern University.
Meanwhile, Oregon Mozart Players has scheduled concerts led by three candidates for its artistic director position, replacing Kelly Kuo.
OMP’s Artistic Director Festival, as the tryouts are called, will be at Central Presbyterian Church, 555 E. 15th Avenue, in October and November. Each program will include the third movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with soloist Sunmi Chang, a professor at the University of Oregon, as well as a different Beethoven symphony for each candidate.
Kevin Fitzgerald, who will conduct on Oct. 5, is currently associate conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony, a post he has held since the 2022-23 season. Winner of the special prize for the best performance of a contemporary piece at The Mahler Competition in 2023, he is also a candidate for the conducting job at the Cape Symphony on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The OMP program will feature Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and David Lang’s sweet air.
On Oct. 19, David Amado will conduct a program that includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and Arvo Pärt’s Fratres. He has been music director of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra since 2003.
And on Nov. 23, Daniel Cho will be on the podium as the orchestra presents Beethoven Symphony No. 5 and Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers. Cho is currently assistant conductor of the Alabama Symphony and the music director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra and has served as associate conductor of Eugene Symphony and worked with OrchestraNext and Eugene Opera.
All three concerts begin at 7:30 pm.
For more tickets and information about the Eugene Symphony concerts, see EugeneSymphony.org. For the OMP concerts, see OregonMozartPlayers.org.
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Cuthbert AmphitheaterLeo Harris Parkway
Sept. 12, Tom Segura: Come Together
Hult Center, 1 Eugene Center
HultCenter.org — 541-682-5000
Sept. 12, Brian Regan
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Sept. 14, David Cross: The End of the Beginning of the End
Oct. 3 & 4, Tom Papa
Oct. 27, Josh Gates: An Evening of Ghosts, Monsters & Tales of Adventures
Nov. 10, Mattias Klum: The Planet in Our Hands
McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette Street
McDonaldTheatre.com — 541-345-4442
Sept. 27, Craig Ferguson: Pants on Fire Tour
Oct. 16, Steve-O: The Super Dummy Tour
Oct. 18, Justin Willman: Illusianati Tour
Nov. 15, Ryan Hamilton
Dec. 8 & 9, Brad Williams: Tour ’24
Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette Street
TsunamiBooks.org — 541-345-8986
Sept. 17, Ice to Water reading with author Dr. M. Jackson
Oct. 6, A Journey With Orvis reading with author Mose Mosley
Oct. 26, California Medieval: Nearly a Nun in 1960s San Francisco reading with author Dianne Dugaw
WOW Hall, 291 West 8th Avenue
WOWHall.org — 541-687-2746
Sept. 12, Peter Antoniou: Psychic Comedian
Nov. 4, Gareth Reynolds
Dance
All That Dance Company AllThatDanceCompany.com — 541-688-1523 Performances at the Hult Center
Nov. 23 & 24, The Nutcracker Remixed
Ballet Fantastique
BalletFantastique.org — 541-342-4611
Performances at the Hult Center
Oct. 24–27, Murder at the Ballet
Nov. 30–Dec. 1, An American Christmas Carol
Eugene Ballet Company
EugeneBallet.org — 541-485-3992
Performances at the Hult Center
Nov. 1–3, Mowgli, The Jungle Book Ballet
Dec. 19–24, The Nutcracker
Hult Center, 1 Eugene Center
HultCenter.org — 541-682-5000
Oct. 24–27, Ballet Fantastique: Murder at the Ballet
Nov. 1–3, Eugene Ballet: Mowgli, The Jungle Book Ballet
Nov. 30–Dec. 1, Ballet Fantastique: An American Christmas Carol
Dec. 19–24, Eugene Ballet: The Nutcracker
Lane Community College Dance Department
LaneCC.edu — 541-463-5161
Performances at Ragozzino Hall, 4000 East 30th Avenue, building 6
Dec. 3, Dance Open Show
Chamber Music Amici
ChamberMusicAmici.org — 541-953-9204
Oct. 20, All Mozart (The Shedd)
Dec. 15 & 16, Chamber Music with Guitar (Wildish Theater)
Corvallis/OSU Symphony Orchestra
COSUSymphony.org — 541-752- 2361
Nov. 17, Fall Concert (PRAx)
Dec. 6, Holiday Concert (LaSells Stewart Center)
Cuthbert Amphitheater, 2300 Leo Harris Parkway
TheCuthbert.com — 541-762-8099
Sept. 8, Air Supply
Sept. 21, Floydian Slips
Sept. 24, Goose
Delgani String Quartet
Delgani.org — 541-579-5882
Sept. 29, A World of Music (Wildish Theater)
Oct. 1, A World of Music (Wildish Theater)
Oct. 27, The Heart of Invention (First Church of Christ, Scientist)
Oct. 29, The Heart of Invention (First Church of Christ, Scientist)
Eugene Concert Choir
EugeneConcertChoir.org — 541-687-6865
Performances at the Hult Center
Nov. 16 & 17, Renaissance Revels
Dec. 15, Handel’s Messiah
Eugene Opera
EugeneOpera.com — 541-682-5000
Performances at The Shedd Institute for the Arts
Oct. 1, Autumn Dreams
Eugene Symphony
EugeneSymphony.org — 541-682-500
Performances at the Hult Center
Sept. 20–21, The Music of Studio Ghibli
Sept. 26, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
Oct. 24, Alexander conducts Dvořák
Nov. 21, Farkhad conducts Tchaikovsky
Dec. 12, Rory conducts Rachmaninov
Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve Celebration
Hult Center, 1 Eugene Center
HultCenter.org — 541-682-5000
Sept. 9, T Bone Burnett
Sept. 10, Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin ‘II’
Sept. 14, Buffalo Kin
Sept. 20–21, Eugene Symphony: The Music of Studio Ghibli
Sept. 26, Eugene Symphony: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
Oct. 6, Kingston Trio
Oct. 8, Bonnie Raitt
Oct. 14, Destroyer
Oct. 17, My Brightest Diamond
Oct. 24, Eugene Symphony: Alexander conducts Dvořák
Nov. 9, TAE & The Neighborly
Nov. 12, Shawn Colvin & KT Tunstall
Nov. 16 & 17, Eugene Concert Choir: Renaissance Revels
Nov. 21, Eugene Symphony: Farkhad conducts Tchaikovsky
Dec. 11, Mikey Moo
Dec. 12, Eugene Symphony: Rory conducts Rachmaninov
Dec. 15, Eugene Concert Choir: Handel’s Messiah
Dec. 31, Eugene Symphony: New Year’s Eve Celebration
Lane Community College
LaneCC.edu — 541-463-5761
Dec. 2, Lane Symphonic Band (Ragozzino Hall)
Dec. 4, Jazz Combos (Ragozzino Hall)
Dec. 5, Lane Jazz Faculty Combo w/ John Yao (Roaring Rapids)
Dec. 6, Lane Jazz Ensemble w/ John Yao (Ragozzino Hall)
McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette Street
McDonaldTheatre.com — 541-345-4442
Sept. 13, Grateful Shred and Circles Around the Sun
Sept. 21, Celtic Thunder Odyssey
Sept. 23, Hot Tuna
Sept. 24, Ricky Montgomery
Oct. 2, Prof
Oct. 4, Tape B
Oct. 5, Badflower
Oct. 12, Less Than Jake
Oct. 19, Croce Plays Croce
Nov. 6, Babytron & BLP Kosher
Nov. 10, Marc Broussard
Nov. 23, BEAT
Nov. 27, LP Giobbi
Dec. 21, Thievery Corporation
Territorial Vineyards & Wine Company, 907 West 3rd Avenue
TerritorialVineyards.com — 541-684-9463
Sept. 5, Tim McLaughlin Trio
Sept. 6, Skip Jones Band
Sept. 7, Geoffrey Mays
Sept. 12, Gerry Rempel Trio
Sept. 13, The Miller Brothers
Sept. 14, The Dubious Rubes
Sept. 19, The Willin Three
Sept. 20, Donnie Raye & The Blues Foundation
Sept. 21, Choro Nah Cozinha
Sept. 26, The Porch Band
Sept. 27, Concrete Delta Band
Sept. 28, Slightly Retro Jazz
Oct. 3, Tim McLaughlin Trio
Oct. 4, Skip Jones Band
Oct. 5, Geoffrey Mays
Oct. 10, Gerry Rempel Trio
Oct. 11, The Miller Brothers
Oct. 12, Dubious Rubes
Oct. 17, The Willin Three
Oct. 18, Henry Cooper Band
Oct. 19, Choro Nah Cozinha
Oct. 24, The Porch Band
Oct. 25, Concrete Delta Band
Oct. 26, Jazz Symbiosis
Oct. 31, DJ Kevin
Nov. 1, Skip Jones Band
Nov. 2, Geoffrey Mays
Nov. 7, Tim McLaughlin Band
Nov. 8, The Miller Brothers
Nov. 9, The Dubious Rubes
Nov. 14, Gerry Rempell Trio
Nov. 16, Choro Nah Cozinha
Nov. 21, October Moon
Nov. 22, Concrete Delta Band
Nov. 23, Jazz Symbiosis
Nov. 29, Donnie Raye & The Blues Foundation
Dec. 5, Tim McLaughlin Band
Dec. 6, Skip Jones Band
Dec. 7, Geoffrey Mays
Dec. 12, Gerry Rempel Trio
Dec. 13, The Miller Brothers
Dec. 14, The Dubious Rubes
Dec. 19, The Willin Three
Dec. 20, Henry Cooper Band
Dec. 21, Choro Nah Cozinha
Dec. 27, Concrete Delta Band
Dec. 28, Jazz Symbiosis
The Jazz Station, 124 West Broadway
TheJazzStation.org — 458-205-1030
Sept. 13, Don Latarski Quintet
Sept. 14, The LaRhonda Steele Ensemble
Sept. 19, Mhondoro (Farmers Market Pavillion)
Sept. 20, Billie Eidson
Sept. 21, The Headhunters
Sept. 26, Sound Creation Trio
Sept 27, Idit Shner Quartet
Sept. 28, Joe Mazzaferro Quartet
Sept. 29, Brothers Dana & Alden McWayne
Oct. 2, Ben Harris
Oct. 3, Fog Holler — acoustic Americana
Oct. 4, Roger Woods Tentet
Oct. 5, MSG: Mijiga, Sickafoose & Grant
Oct. 7, First Monday Big Band
Oct. 10, Slightly Retro Jazz
Oct. 11, Torrey Newhart Trio
Oct. 12, Randy Porter Trio
Oct. 16, Katie DeCosta Quintet
Oct. 17, Oregon Jazz Ensemble
Oct. 18, Eugenie Jones
Oct. 19, Masterson Jazz Ensemble
Oct. 24, Delos Erickson & Amalgam
Oct. 25, UO Jazz Faculty Ensemble
Oct. 27, UO Lab Bands II & III
Oct. 30, Natsukashii Soul
Oct. 31, Martin Budde
Nov. 1, UO Small Jazz Ensembles
Nov. 2, Joe Manis Quartet
Nov. 4, First Monday Big Band
Nov. 6, Steffen Land
Nov. 7, Muddy Souls — acoustic Americana
Nov. 8, UO Small Jazz Ensembles
Nov. 9, Christopher Brown Quartet
Nov. 20, Henry Ivie-Gardner
Nov. 21, Ciro Magnani Quartet
Nov. 22, Paula Byrne Quartet
Nov. 23, Steve Owen Quartet
Dec. 2, First Monday Big Band
Dec. 4, Max Cullen
Dec. 5, Sugar Pine — acoustic Americana
Dec. 6, Trio Subtonic
Dec. 7, Greg Goebel Quartet
Dec. 12 & 13, Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite
Dec. 18, Eric Deaton
Dec. 19, Olivia Fields Quartet
Dec. 20, John Heller & Calvin Orlando Smith
Dec. 21, Calvin Orlando Smith
Newport Symphony Orchestra
NewportSymphony.org — 541-574-0614
Performances at Newport Performing Arts Center
Sept. 28 & 29, Symphonic Bacchanale and the Divine Cello
Nov. 2 & 3, Utterly Transported
Dec. 4, Baroque and Beyond for the Holidays
Oregon Mozart Players
OregonMozartPlayers.org — 541-345- 6648
Performances at Central Presbyterian Church, 555 East 15th Avenue
Oct. 5, Artistic Director Festival with Kevin Fitzgerald
Oct. 19, Artistic Director Festival with David Amado
Nov. 23, Artistic Director Festival with Daniel Cho
Dec. 20 & 21, Candlelight: Glow with Interim Artistic Director Daniel Cho
The Shedd Institute, 868 High Street
TheShedd.org — 541-434-7000
Oct. 1, Eugene Opera: Autumn Dreams
Oct. 12 & 13, Sergei Prokofiev
Oct. 17, Jenny Scheinman
Oct. 18, Tessa Lark, Joshua Roman & Edgar Meyer
Oct. 20, Chamber Music Amici: All Mozart
Oct. 23, Scott Amendola, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose Trio
Nov. 1, Vijay Iyer
Nov. 2 & 3, A Baroque Autumn
Nov. 8–10, Vocal Arts Festival
Nov. 8, Honey Whiskey Trio
Nov. 9, A Night of Vocal Arts
Nov. 15–17, Long, Long Time
Dec. 20–22, Jingle All the Way!
Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette Street
TsunamiBooks.org — 541-345-8986
Sept. 12, Missy Raines & Allegheny
Sept. 14, The Crooked Jades
Sept. 20, Iona Fyfe
Sept. 28, Mama’s Broke
Oct. 3, Paul Safar, Craig Einhorn & Josh Ebing
Oct. 4, House of Hamill
Oct. 11, Golden Bough
Oct. 13, David Jacobs-Strain, Bob Beach & Walker T Ryan
Oct. 19, Robb, Ryan & Scramstad
Oct. 31, John Reischman & The Jaybirds
Nov. 2, The Sugar Beets
Nov. 7, Skye Consort & Emma Björling
Nov. 8, Paul Safar
Nov. 10, Kevin Burke
Nov. 15, Newberry & Verch
Nov. 16, Tom Paxton
Wildish Theater, 630 Main Street, Springfield
WildishTheater.com — 541-868-0689
Oct. 25, Calvin Orlando Smith
Nov. 15, Springfield Mayor’s Revue
Dec. 15 & 16, Chamber Music Amici: Chamber Music with Guitar
Dec. 19–21, Christmas Presence
WOW Hall, 291 West 8th Avenue
WOWHall.org — 541-687-2746
Sept. 13, Travelling Wilburys Revue
Sept. 14, Live Nation Entertainment presents Sabai’s North Star Tour & VAANCE
Sept. 16, Peelander-Z
Sept. 20, Big Skies Big Band
Sept. 26, Andre Nickatina
Sept. 28, The National Parks
Sept. 29, Feng E
Sept. 30, City of the Sun
Oct. 5, Sebastian Bach
Oct. 6, Mike Love & the Full Circle
Oct. 10, Kyle Smith
Oct. 11, Hawthorne Heights: 20 Years of Tears
Oct. 12, Bizzy Bone
Oct. 13, Jerris Johnson
Oct. 18, YBN Nahmir
Oct. 28, Bodie & Gio
Nov. 2, Steely Dead
Nov. 8, American Aquarium
Nov. 9, Armchair Boogie
Nov. 10, Rainbow Girls
Nov. 15, Jonatha Brooke
Nov. 20, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Nov. 22, Stinkfoot Orchestra ft. Napoleon Murphy Brock
Nov. 24, Lizzy & The Triggermen
Dec. 6, Sixpence None the Richer
Dec. 8, Tall Heights
Dec. 14, Odie Leigh
Dec. 31, Bridge City Sinners, Codefendants, 1876, Ceschi Ramos
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Sept. 20–Oct. 12, The Rocky Horror Show
Nov. 22–Dec. 21, CATS
Cottage Theatre, 700 Village Drive, Cottage Grove
CottageTheatre.org — 541-942-8001
Oct. 4–27, Something Rotten
Dec. 6–22, The 39 Steps
Hult Center, 1 Eugene Center
HultCenter.org — 541-682-5000
Nov. 15–17, Hadestown
Dec. 3–8, Back to the Future: The Musical
Lane Community College
LaneCC.edu — 541-463-5761
Performances at Blue Door Theater
Nov. 21–24, fall play TBA
Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 194 West Broadway
OCTheatre.org — 541-465-1506
Sept. 13–29, The Play That Goes Wrong
Oct. 25–Nov. 10, The Last Yiddish Speaker
Dec. 6–22, Snow Fever: A Karaoke Christmas
The Majestic Theatre, 115 Southwest 2nd Street, Corvallis
Majestic.org — 541-758-7827
Sept. 20–29, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play
Oct. 25–Nov. 10, Little Shop of Horrors
The Shedd Institute, 868 High Street
TheShedd.org — 541-434-7000
Sept. 27–Oct. 6, Hello, Dolly!
Oct. 26 & 27, A Spooky Night On Broadway
Nov. 10, The Vaudeville Hour
Nov. 29–Dec. 15, Oliver!
Very Little Theatre, 2350 Hilyard Street
TheVLT.com — 541-344-7751
Sept. 13–29, The Mousetrap
Oct. 25–27, No Script Society’s spooky show TBA
Nov. 8–24, Side ManDec. 13–15, No Script Society’s A Scriptless Carol
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