A Cast of Cast-Aside Characters in Lisa Loomer’s ‘Homefree’
The city-bred playwright has gotten to know another America in rural Oregon, where both liberal and conservative communities are failing their young people.
All Stories About Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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.
How Lynn Nottage, Inveterate Wanderer, Found Her Way to Reading and ‘Sweat’
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Ashland New Plays Festival Announces Four-Play Program
Playwrights Meridith Friedman, Beth Kander, Brian Mulholland, and Skye Robinson Hillis will travel to Ashland for a weeklong festival to develop their winning works.
This Month in Theatre History
From the birth of P.T. Barnum to the Broadway debut of ‘A Chorus Line,’ July has many historical events to boast about.
Oregon Shakes Launches Equity and Inclusion Training Program
The initiative will hold annual workshops to train national theatre leaders on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion.
Folger Theatre Announces 2015–16 Season
A celebratory season of Shakespearean fare, limited engagements and special events.
Wallis Annenberg Center Announces 2015–16 Season
Among a busy season of performances, the venue’s theatrical fare will include 9 plays for a variety of ages.
New Guthrie Season Includes Mix of Comedy, Tragedy and Musicals
The season, partly selected by incoming artistic director Joseph Haj, is big on revivals, as well as area premieres of David Greig’s ‘The Events’ and Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced.’
