Thursday, March 30
Spring Break Family Movie – Minions: The Rise of Gru. Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave., Corvallis. 1:00 p.m. Free. Rated PG, Movie Length: 1 hour and 27 minutes, Snacks provided. Visit https://corvallisbenton.librarycalendar.com/event/spring-break-family-movie-minions-rise-gru for more info.
Winter Wildlife Field Days 2023. Chintimini Park, 605 NW 27th St., Corvallis. 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Join in at any of the Field Stations that will pop up in local parks and community spaces throughout the month of March and throughout the mid-Willamette Valley. Find one near you! Free! Drop by anytime and stay for as little or as long as you like. Visit https://www.fws.gov/refuge/william-l-finley/winter-wildlife-field-days for more info.
Spring Break Teen Movie! Black Panther: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave., Corvallis. 4:00 p.m. Free. Teens can watch Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (PG) at the library, with provided snacks. Visit https://corvallisbenton.librarycalendar.com/event/spring-break-teen-movie-spider-man-spider-verse for more info.
Rocket Surgery. Common Fields, 545 SW 3rd St., Corvallis. 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Free. Join Common Fields on Wednesday and Thursday evenings for dinner and enjoy live music while you eat! Concerts are 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Seating is limited and first-come, first-serve. All of the concerts are family friendly. Visit https://www.commonfieldscorvallis.com/live-music.html for more info.
Dennis Monroe’s Funked Up Blues Jam. Old World Center, 341 SW 2nd St., Corvallis. 7 p.m. Free. Dennis Monroe’s Funked Up Blues Jam live at the Old World Center! Learn more at www.OldWorldCenter.com.
Friday, March 31
Fellow Pynins. The Whiteside Theatre, 361 SW Madison Ave., Corvallis. 7 p.m. $15-$20. The Fellow Pynins are a contemporary folk duo with a keen and bucolic sense of vocal harmony and song craft, performing predominantly original music alongside a few reworked traditional ballads gathered from their travels. Visit https://www.whitesidetheatre.org for more info
Super Secret Band. Old World Center, 341 SW 2nd St., Corvallis. 7 p.m. Free. Super Secret Band live at the Old World Center! Learn more at www.OldWorldCenter.com.
Majestic Readers’ Theatre: Tru. Majestic Theatre, 115 SW 2nd St., Corvallis. 7:30 p.m. $13-$15. Truman Capote’s brilliant, crisp writing, his colorful personality, and his craving for attention peaked in his drive to associate with the heights and riches of the social elite. He was allowed to gaze behind their masks. They gave him what he craved—if not love, at least a surrogate: their fascinated draw to his charisma. All the while, he was gathering material for his long-promised and self-proclaimed masterpiece, Answered Prayers. In Tru, Capote grapples with the self-inflicted loss of some of his super rich friends that he’d gutted through a published excerpt from Answered Prayers. And, it has the mirror effect of baring himself in much the same way as he had revealed them. Visit https://www.majestic.org for more info.
Justice Theatre Presents: The Blaming of the Shrew. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis, 2945 NW Circle Blvd., Corvallis. 7:30 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can. After an evening spent at the local pub, Christopher Sly rents the DVD of The Taming of a Shrew to watch at home with his wife, a movie that is advertised as being a good lesson for married men. The movie he watches becomes the action of the play, with Sly’s wife moving from the real world to step into the role of Katharina, the titular shrew. Katharina’s mother Baptista will not allow any of her children to be married before Katharina, who is the eldest. However, no one seems to want to marry her, since she’s known far and wide as an intolerable shrew. Visit https://blamingoftheshrew.brownpapertickets.com for more info.
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