Russian flash mob is not the name of a band. It really happened. Stop me if you’ve seen this before. Lagniappe: Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder doing the same tune.

Writer Milo Mowery and composer Rodolfo Ortega have created this new adaptation for the stage about a young version of Zorro that can be enjoyed by both English and Spanish-speaking children and adults.

Housewife Diana Goodman (Susannah Mars) has endured just one too many upsetting, disjointed days. When she finds herself frenetically making sandwiches on the floor, maybe it’s time to seek some professional help. So with her husband Dan (William Wadhams) at the wheel, she’s off to the doctor, and here the story, onstage at Artists Repertory Theatre, swirls into action.

“She had the kind of face a man could hang a dream on, a body that made Venus De Milo look all thumbs, and only the floor kept her legs from going on forever.” With these descriptive words, a gumshoe detective sets the mood for the evening to come. Begins Friday, May 4.

Slapstick comedy, old-fashioned romance and a gaggle of nostalgic tunes fill the stage, as do actors James Langston Drake, Norman Wilson, Adam Davis and Louise Stinson as Peggy. “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” “Slow Boat to China” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” are just some of the vintage hits on offer.

Stunning. Unsettling. A winner as well. It gathered three Tony awards in 2009, and was nominated for 11. It won the Pulitzer prize for drama in 2010. The powerhouse musical, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, will open at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland on April 24.

Get ready for some things old and some new in the realm of Portland’s musical theatre scene.

Listen to some of our best interviews from all genres…including all of the Jazz Conversations from the 2011 Portland Jazz Festival.

The spirit of the event, is to give amateur singers their own moment in the sun. Tony (pictured) will M.C.

In the Fred Meyer Broadway Across America touring company of West Side Story, its the dancing that knocks us sideways.

We talked with German Santiago, the actor playing Bernardo. Bernardo is the boyfriend of Anita and the leader of the Sharks, the Puerto Rican gang likened to Shakespeare’s Montague family.

This is a great – an not very expensive – way to brighten up someone’s holidays.

From a focus on mobile, to social listening, to the demise social media as we know it, here are predictions that will help guide us through 2012.

The only Oregon nominations this year are Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song for the Decemberists “Down by the Water,” from The King Is Dead, and “So Long” from the Winnie the Pooh film, Best Song Written for Visual Media by Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward.

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Mary Flower, Natalie Gunn, Cherie Price and Rebecca Teran join hostess Gretchen Rumbaugh and Musical Director Darcy White in the monthly all-female singers series.

We’ll have the extra-funky Renato Caranto Project, Auditory Sculpture (Keith Schreiner) with Stephanie Schneiderman, Orianna Herrman and Derek Sims, plus a to-be-announced indie band, a raffle and a big cake. Come help us celebrate.

The cast, led by Rodney Hicks as Curly, the dream-boat cowboy-leading man, didn’t just hoot and holler, it sold the show by exposing the dramatic tension to its fullest.