Bill Rauch to Leave Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2019
The longtime artistic director will leave to lead the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center in New York City.
All Stories About Bill Rauch
Equity and Diversity Starts at the Top
At a gathering of Boston theatre leaders and their boards last year, Bill Rauch shared tips and takeaways from Oregon Shakes’s ED&I journey.
Bill Rauch Receives Ivy Bethune Award
Actors’ Equity Association recognizes Rauch’s efforts to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Why We’re Translating Shakespeare
Though our ‘Play on!’ commissioning project has met with some vocal disapproval, the work is grounded in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s core values—and our love for the Bard.
Scripture Is Changeable, But Shakespeare? Heaven Forfend
Oregon Shakespeare Fest’s new translation project pits purity against clarity, 400 years of reverence against a few hours’ traffic of the stage.
Change of the Seasons
An issue of a magazine, like a theatrical season, is a menu of options reflecting our tastes, affinities, and priorities.
Bill Rauch: Oregon Shakes’s ‘And’ Man
The theatre’s idealistic leader isn’t resting on its considerable laurels but pushing it to be more, and do more, all the time.
The History Play That Got Away
Oregon Shakes’s history-play commissioning project may not have funded the founding fathers hip-hop musical everyone’s talking about, but their slate so far is pretty revolutionary anyway.
Bill Rauch’s Oregon Trail, and Mine
Why I’ve avidly watched the work of Cornerstone’s founding artistic director and of Oregon Shakes, both separately and together.
East West Players Prepares for a More Diverse 2042
The new 51% Preparedness Plan calls for SoCal theatres to lead the national charge toward greater diversity onstage, backstage and in the house.
