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ENTERTAINMENT
Dracula
A Musical Nightmare
Stumptown Stages presents a special Halloween performance
of their season-opening production, Dracula, a Musical Night
mare at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31.
Written by Douglas Johnson and directed by Tobias Ander
son, this humorous treatment of the Dracula story in the frame
work of a music-hall troupe has got it all, the requisite insect
eating lunatic, beautiful innocents, hapless heroes and thickly-
accented vampire experts.
Dracula, a Musical Nightmare runs through Sunday, Nov. 11
at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Brunish Theatre,
1111 S.W. Broadway.
For more information, visit stumptownstages.com.
Dracula, a Musical Nightmare is a high-camp
version o f the well-known story by Portland’s
Stumptown Stages.
Science of Race
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match voices with people in photos
based on speech patterns and in
flection.
Another part of the exhibit ex
plores how our conception of race is
ever-changing and has morphed
throughout American history ac
cording to social, economic, and
political forces.
The work of photographer Wing
Young Huie captures - in ways large
and small - the lives of diverse indi
viduals and communities across the
country.
Find out what it’s like growing up
Korean in a white family or to be a
part o f a multi-racial couple at the
Living with Race video kiosk, where
visitors can hear people talk about
their experiences with race and rac
ism.
Youth on Race is a video that
features high school students re
lating their views of racial identity
and how they differ from those of
their parents.
Throughout history, people’s
differences have been a source of
com m unity strength and personal
identity, but they’ve also been
the basis for discrim ination and
oppression.
“Our hope is that this exhibit
will initiate some profound dis
cussions,” says OMSI President
As powerful emblems o f economic inequality, stacks o f money draw visitors to discuss their own
Nancy Stueber.
experiences in the OMSI RACE exhibit, open through Jan. 1.
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