By: Ashton Newton Entertainment Editor
If April showers really bring May flowers, here’s hoping those come up soon. In the meantime, there are plenty of fun local events both inside and outside to keep busy with.
Keizer Homegrown Theatre’s latest show, “Hearts Like Fists,” is running May 5-7 and 11-13 at 7 p.m. in the Chemeketa Community College Auditorium. “Hearts Like Fists” is a superhero romance that plays to fans of both genres.
“The play is very smart in that there’s nothing supernatural and no super powers. They are crime fighters. It’s grounded in reality,” Director Jay Gipson-King told the Statesman Journal.
Tickets for “Hearts Like Fists” are available now for $15 and can be found at keizerhomegrowntheatre.org.
Salem’s Pentacle Theatre opens their newest show “Leading Ladies” on May 26 at 7:30 p.m. and runs until June 17.
“Leading Ladies,” originally written by Ken Ludwig, is a comedy that finds two down-on-their-luck Shakespeare actors posing in drag as an old lady’s nieces in order to get ahold of her fortune but, when romance gets in the way, things don’t quite go as planned.
Tickets for “Leading Ladies” cost $25 and can be found at pentacletheatre.org.
Leading up to Cinco de Mayo, Salem is hosting the annual Taco Crawl. On May 3-5, participating downtown restaurants will be open for guests to come in and try all the tacos they can eat. The event is all day long and ends with a performance from the Orquestra Pacifico Tropical at Venti’s on May 5.
For more information and a list of participating restaurants, check out tacocrawlsalem.com.
A little further from Monmouth, Portland’s famous Rose Festival begins on May 6 and has events throughout the month. The biggest event in the festival is Portland’s CityFair, running May 26-29. On May 26, the fair opens at 5 p.m. and includes a firework show at 8 p.m. Each day following, the fair runs from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
CityFair will have exotic animals, music, rides and more. The fair is held at the Portland Waterfront and only costs $8 to get in. Tickets can be found at rosefestival.org.
There are plenty of events this May to take a break from class and hopefully enjoy the sun.
Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu
