The Other Side of Summer
How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet.
All Stories About Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Theatrical Mustang: Justin Huertas Is Hero Material
Woodzick talks to the performer and composer about his queer superhero musical ‘Lizard Boy,’ rooting for underdogs, and blending artistic genres.
Ted DeLong Joins TimeLine Theatre as Managing Director
After serving as Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s interim managing director, DeLong now joins a leadership team that includes Mica Cole and PJ Powers.
TheatreWorks Artistic Director Tim Bond to Lead Oregon Shakespeare Festival
After three years at TheatreWorks, Bond will return to OSF as of Sept. 1.
Nataki Garrett to Leave Oregon Shakes Amid Emergency Fund Drive
The artistic director’s departure caps a 4-year period of extraordinary promise, crisis, and controversy, while the festival seeks help with its next steps.
The Play That Got Away: A History of ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’
Lorraine Hansberry’s long-awaited sophomore effort was greeted coolly, even confusedly, in 1964, but ambivalence—about art, activism, and their fraught intersection—has always been in the play’s DNA.
How to Design a More Just Theatre Field
The symposium ‘Sound & Color: The Future of Race in Design’ invited young designers of color to imagine a future that is only just beginning.
Oregon Shakes Restructures, Scales Back With Eye to Future
Managing director David Schmitz will depart, with artistic director Nataki Garrett taking the role of interim executive artistic director and Anyania Muse chief operating officer.
Why Keep Doing Shakespeare? Maybe That’s the Wrong Question
From the Public Works ‘As You Like It’ to upstart crow’s ‘King John’ at Oregon Shakes to ‘Mother Lear’ at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Bard remains powerful currency; it’s how it’s spent that matters.
OSF Promotes Anyania Muse to Managing Director
After a year as director of the theatre’s director of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA), she will move up to both oversee a wider variety of operations and to infuse IDEA values throughout the organization.
