KMUZ Theatre Talk

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (13:45) Three co-directors from Keizer Homegrown Theatre join host Ed Schoaps to talk about Shakespeare’s magical favorite, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM , playing outdoors at the Keizer Elks Club July 16-18.   (34:45) Ed also talks with director Leslie Inmon and a...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (12:06) Host Ed Schoaps talks with director Steven Munshaw and actors Lily Walsh  and Kieley Jarnagan from the C hemeketa Community College Theater Under the Stars show, MEAN GIRLS The Musical , coming to the Gerry Frank Amphitheater in Salem’s Riverfront Park...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (11:21) Aaron Posner’s JQA is a provocative, haunting and often hilarious power play that challenges the way Americans think of our country, our government and ourselves. Complicated, passionate and difficult, John Quincy Adams was a brilliant diplomat, a congr...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (12:37) GREATER TUNA , a hilarious comedy set in Tuna, Texas, the 3rd smallest town in the Lone Star State, plays June 5-13 at Albany Civic Theater . It’s directed by LanceDuddlesten and stars actors Gary Burris and Chuck Skinner who play 20 different roles in...

Episode 26-0501: Four lady friends take ameaningful road trip in THE LOST VIRGINITY TOUR at Pentacle Theatre   (00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (15:16) The four ladies of the baking club at Happy Trails Senior Resort Living start swapping stories about their“first time” when one bakes up a gre...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (17:32) Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet search for meaning as they navigate a confusing world filled with riddles, mistaken identities and philosophical puzzles in Tom Stoppard’s absurdist tragicomedy, ROSENCRANTZAND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD , onsta...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (17:14) Rob Brewster’s parents are very proud of their son, the doctor. What they don’t know is Rob used all the money they gave him for medical school to support his fledgling writing career. Rob’s day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive at his office f...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid- Willamette Valley theatres.   (17:09) It’s the 1590s, and what if . . . the only clear path to theatrical fame at Shakespeare’s height of Elizabethan popularity is to invent a new kind of play—the first musical. Director Robert Salberg talks with host Ed Schoaps about what the Bottom broth...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (17:59) BYE BYE BIRDIE at Gallery Theater is more than a sweet ode to the roots of rock ‘n’ roll at the start of a changingera — it’s director Emily Matsuda’s lifelong dream of a musical.   (25:24) Wrap-up.   KMUZ Theatre Tal k airs at 9 a.m. the first and thir...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar covering the shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   (16:06) Lex Bolsinger is the driving force behind Effin Artist Productions , a new theatre company based in Salem. Lex talks with Ed about what it means to be an Effin Artist working to create what they describe as “a diverse community committed to the powe...

In this final episode of 2025, Ed dives into the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar to cover the list of holiday shows and auditions coming up in December, and what’s ahead in the new year at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.   Join Ed on Jan. 2 for a brand-new season of KMUZ Theatre Talk podcasts for 2026.

(00:00) KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar   (13:29) Neil Simon’s classic comedy, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK runs Dec. 5-20 at Albany Civic Theater . A pair of newlyweds is adjusting to marriage. But Paul is a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and Corie is a free spirit of the 60s, always looking for the latest kick. Add in a recently widowed mother, a worldly upstairs neighbor and a hapless telephone repair man and...

(00:00) KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar   (11:32) An adaptation of Jules Vern’s AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS fills the stage at Corban University Nov. 13-23. Host Ed Schoaps talks with director Tamara McGinnis about why this story is more about what the travelers learn about themselves along the journey than just winning a wager.   (33:01) Two hapless thieves from a Christmas Eve liquor store holdup tak...

(00:00) KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar   (19:27) THE LION IN WINTER , by James Goldman, comes to the Keizer Homegrown Theatre stage Nov. 7-23.  The dramady follows the medieval Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions. Host Ed Schoaps talks with director Linda Baker, and actors Rick Sanders, who plays England’s King Henry II, and Nyla McCarthy, who plays Henry’s wife...

(00:00) KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar   (13:11) David Bates is directing Edward Albee’s WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at Gallery Theater Oct. 10-26. The cast includes Lance Nuttman, Holly Spencer, Reese Madden and Jordan Reed. Host Ed Schoaps dives deep into Albee’s masterwork along with David, Lance and Holly in a lively conversation about truth, illusion and why this searing play is both a comedy...

(00:00) KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar   (17:39) THE GREAT GATSBY , F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about the idle rich in America’s Jazz Age, may be a century old but it’s as relevant today as ever. Simon Levy’s stage adaptation of Fitzgerald’s story of glamour and decadent excess in the 1920s opens Sept. 26 at The Majestic Theatre in Corvallis. Host Ed Schoaps talks with director Laura Blackwell and act...

Labor Day may still be just a BBQ fever dream highlighted with cold brews, but summer isn’t over quite yet. On today’s KMUZ Theatre Talk podcast, host Ed Schoaps covers two theatre events happening this weekend that you don’t want to miss!   (00:00) KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar   (14:00) Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM , staged by Struts & Frets Theatre Company, plays tonight and Sat...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (12:44) Greek muses suddenly walk out of an artist’s sidewalk mural straight into 1980s Venice Beach to help a struggling local artist realize his greatest dream: To create a roller disco called XANADU as a nexus for art, pop culture and roller skating. It’s a musical comedy/mythical love story based on the cult 80s film. Director Marla Nuttman a...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (15:12) Director Robert Salberg and actors Paige Caballero and Jessica Peterson talk with host Ed Schoaps about the cult musical HAIRSPRAY , coming to Pentacle Theatre Aug. 15–Sept. 6. Learn why this story set in the 60s still resonates strongly today.   (39:21) Wrap-up.   KMUZ Theatre Talk airs at 9 a.m. the first and third Fridays of the month...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (16:42) Host Ed Schoaps interviews choreographer Christopher Dean and actors Megan Smith and Benji Burgess from Disney's and Cameron Macintosh's MARY POPPINS , playing under the stars July 29-Aug. 7 at the  Gerry Frank Amphitheater in Salem's Riverfront Park.   (41:06) Wrap-up.   KMUZ Theatre Talk airs at 9 a.m. the first and third Fr...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar. (14:55) Edward Albee’s WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIAWOOLF? runs for two weekends only, July 18–26, at Albany Civic Theater . Director Sara Roth and actors Diane Cooper and Robert Henry talk about Fun and Games with George and Martha in this searing drama. (30:07) THE CURIOUS SAVAGE comes to Gallery Theater's intimate Arena stage July 18–Aug. 3. Ed t...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (15:36) BLACK COMEDY will light up the Pentacle Theatre stage June 27 – July 19. Join the conversation with director Debbie Neel and actors Emily Sass and Antonio Schoaps about this delirious British comedy that’s set in an apartment-wide blackout.   (36:53) The 12th annual Theatre 33 New Play Festival at Willamette University is going regional....

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (13:43) Director Linda Baker and actors Tom Hewitt and Jeremy Clifton talk with Ed about the backstage comedy, WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT , running June 13-29 at Keizer Homegrown Theatre .   (35:39) Co-director Dan Bushong and actor John Michael Murphey join Ed to talk about the psychological thriller DIAL “M” FOR MURDER , playing at Albany Ci...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (12:20) There’s still time to audition for the musical XANADU at Gallery Theatre in McMinnville on Sunday, May 18 and Monday, May 19, with callbacks on May 20. Co-director Marla Nuttman talks about why more time slot s were added on the signup page and how XANADU perfectly and lovingly parodies the 80s original film.   (26:44) Pentacle Theatre le...

(00:00) Intro and the KMUZ Theatre Talk calendar.   (14:27) The Tennessee Williams classic, THE GLASS MENAGERIE , comes to the Pentacle Theatre stage May 9-31. Director Jeff Sanders and actors Christopher Schoaps and Quaye Dydasco talk about the “memory play” that catapulted Williams from obscurity to playwriting fame.   (37:37) The Agatha Christie classic murder mystery, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE...