Review: Bojangles ascending at Stumptown Stages
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
October 19, 2021
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
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Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
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Imago director brings his offbeat imagination to Eugene Opera’s “Lucy” and his own “Satie’s Journey.”
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At Triangle, the author of “The Vagina Monologues” takes on her own journey into the trials of cancer.
Stage & Studio: A conversation with founder Sankar Raman, plus a father’s talk with his daughter 20 years ago on 9/11.
Third Angle premieres an opera inspired by gentrification’s damage to Portland’s Black community.
Theater founder and executive director Donald Horn explains how he’s waging war on COVID-19.
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PassinArt’s Pacific Northwest Multi-Cultural Festival serves a virtual feast of stories by and for artists of color.
Maeve Z O’Connor talks about her stuck-in-a-storm play “Omission,” opening at the Keizer Cultural Center.
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