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Hoofing it in "White Christmas" at the Coaster Theatre Playhouse in Cannon Beach are (from left) Amy Cochran, Bennett Hunter, Ethan Taylor, and Cindy Karr. Photo by: Bob Kroll Photography

Happy theater holidays on the Oregon Coast

Theaters in Nehalem, Cannon Beach, and Newport welcome the season (and audiences) with some timely onstage comedy, family-friendly nostalgia, and a live radio-style “Wonderful Life.”

DramaWatch: A season brimming with hope and light

Setting the stage for gratitude: As December dawns, “Black Nativity,” “Fezziwig’s Fortune,” and “Veronica, In Bed” all acknowledge adversity while offering inspiration.

‘Twelfth Night’: High comedy & big ideas

Review: Shakespeare’s mind-bending comedy at Portland Center Stage ripples with laughter as the play explores fascinating facets of love, identity, friendship, and human nature.

Dámaso Rodríguez and the skin of Seattle’s teeth

The former artistic director of Portland’s Artists Rep picks Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth,” which he directed to acclaim in Portland, as his first show as artistic leader of the flagship Seattle Rep.

Review: A razor-sharp ‘Sweeney Todd’

Portland Center Stage mounts a compellingly sung version of Stephen Sondheim’s penny-dreadful tale of meat pies, murder, and revenge on the mean streets of Victorian London.

Theatrical giant Tobias Andersen dies

The actor, director and writer, whose professional career spanned almost 60 years, is dead at 87, leaving a brilliant legacy ranging from Hollywood to Portland to Pakistan.

‘Amélie’: A blissful musical tour de force

With Lo Steele in the title role and an all-star cast also serving as the onstage orchestra, Portland Playhouse’s magical stage version of a French film is awash with lyrical sights and sounds.

Bobby Bermea: A theatrical ghost, rising

The Broken Planetarium gets ready to unleash “The Greenbrier Ghost.” And like most things ghostly, this fresh work of music, theater, and free expression plays by its own rules.

DramaWatch: Autumn blows in a breeze of musicals

“Amélie,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “Sweeney Todd” all take the stage this week. October also brings Artists Rep’s “The Event!,” the concert musical “Is You Is,” “Wicked” and more.

Broadway Rose and Patsy Cline, together again

“Always … Patsy Cline,” a musical about the friendship between the legendary country singer and her biggest fan, is still delighting packed Oregon audiences the fourth time around.

A new stage for telling Native stories

Director Jeanette Harrison’s new Native Theater Project, in an innovative partnership with Hillsboro’s Bag & Baggage Productions, debuts with Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play.”

Curtains up on Seattle’s new theater season

As the city’s vaunted theater scene navigates some major shifts, a lively fall lineup ranges from a ribald political farce to a trip to the Taj Mahal, the NW premiere of 2024’s Pulitzer-winning play, a “Jubilee,” a “Funny Girl” and more.

William Earl Ray & ‘God’s Favorite’

The veteran actor and director talks with Dmae Lo Roberts on her newest Stage & Studio podcast about race in the theater, his fondness for Neil Simon, and the Simon comedy he’s directing for PassinArt.

DramaWatch: The (1921) future is now

As the fall theater season rolls out and the big dogs get ready to bark, the revival of a century-old sci-fi play about humans and human-like robots imagines an unnerving new world.

Jessica Wallenfels: Hatching new works

Stage & Studio: In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with director & choreographer Wallenfels about The Hatchery, a project to develop storytelling based in movement and music.

DramaWatch: JAWing about new plays

Portland Center Stage’s JAW festival is off and running. Plus: “Reggie Hoops,” the return of Eliza Doolittle, site-specific plays in a century-old country store, farewell to Sam Mowry.

One fine show: It’s ‘Beautiful’

Broadway Rose Theatre Company’s smart and sharply choreographed “Beautiful” tells the inspiring story of singer and songwriter Carole King’s musical journey.

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