Episode 25-0207: WOU Theatre stages NORA: A DOLL’S HOUSE, a reframing of Ibsen’s classic to modern times. ACT offers a strange/zany/funny musical, RIDE THE CYCLONE.

(00:00) Intro and theKMUZ Theatre Talk calendar. (15:06)NORA: A DOLL’S HOUSE, a modern reframing of the classic drama, “A Doll’s House,” by Henrik Ibsen, is set in three different time periods — the fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging 60s and modern day. Director Kindra Steenerson and the actors playing all three “Noras” talk with Ed about this update of Ibsen’s classic, opening Feb. 26 at Western Oregon University’s Rice Auditorium. (30:41) Director Lorianne Schmidt and actor Frank Kern talk with Ed aboutRIDE THE CYCLONE, the strange and hilarious musical about six members of a Canadian chamber choir stuck in limbo after dying in a freak rollercoaster accident. But a mechanical fortune teller offers them a chance to return to life. Opening Feb. 21 at Albany Civic Theatre. (48:01) Wrap-up. KMUZ Theatre Talk airs at 9 a.m. the first and third Fridays of the month at⁠KMUZ 100.7 and 88.5 FM ⁠in the mid-Willamette Valley and on the KMUZ app for Apple and Android. #MidValleyTheatreNetwork #MVTN #MVTNRepresentatives #theatre #livetheatre #stageplay #musical #communitytheatre #KMUZmedia #KMUZtheatretalk #PressPlaySalem #WOUtheater #AlbanyCivicTheater