04/17/2026
WEEKEND UPDATE
OPENING
“The Pirates of Penzance” opens at Albany Civic Theater this Friday, April 17th and runs until May 9th. Learn more and get your tickets at https://www.albanycivic.org/2025-2026/pirates-of-penzance-2026 🏴☠️
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” opens at Gallery Theater Tonight Friday 4/17, running through this weekend, with continuing performances through 05/03. Buy tickets at https://www.gallerytheater.org
CONTINUING
“Playing Doctor” at Keizer Homegrown Theatre continues performances this weekend Fri-Sun, through 4/26. Buy tickets at https://www.keizerhomegrowntheatre.org
AUDITIONS
Albany Civic Theater is hosting open auditions for “A Midsummer Night's Dream” on Monday and Tuesday, April 20th-21st starting at 7 PM. Learn more at https://www.albanycivic.org/2025-2026/midsummer-nights-dream 🌙
Pentacle Theatre - Salem, OR is holding Auditions Tomorrow Saturday 4/18 from 1-5pm in the Downtown Rehearsal Space for “Rumors” by Neil Simon. For more details, visit https://pentacletheatre.org
Portland Playwright Sandra de Helen is seeking actors to do a Zoom Reading of “The Rex Family: Jocasta and Oedipus” on May 13th. Loosely based on the original “Oedipus” and has 21 Characters. For more information, Email: [email protected]
RADIO
Catch a brand-new KMUZ Theatre Talk episode wherever you listen to podcasts.
Episode 26-0403: Tom Stoppard gives two minor Shakespeare characters a show of their own at Gallery Theater
—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, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, onstage at the Gallery Theater in McMinnville, April 17–May 3. Director John Hamilton and actor Reese Madden join host Ed Schoaps to discuss Stoppard’s existential masterwork.
— Host Ed Schoaps also dives into the KMUZ Theatre Talk Calendar to cover the shows and auditions coming up at your favorite mid-Willamette Valley theatres.
KMUZ Theatre Talk airs at 9 a.m. the first and third Fridays of the month on KMUZ 100.7 and 88.5 FM.