Wildfires Cost Oregon Shakes Millions, and There’s a Human Toll
This summer the Ashland theatre faced dozens of cancelled and moved performances and some personnel attrition.
All Stories About Oregon Shakespeare Festival
‘Oklahoma!,’ Still Okay?
Two new revivals—one ebulliently LGBTQ, another brooding and immersive—make this musical warhorse run in new directions.
The Way Idris Goodwin Moves
With works like ‘How We Got On’ and ‘This Is Modern Art,’ his plays are an intoxicating mix of hip-hop and social history.
In With the New at Oregon Shakes
By doing such vital work by living playwrights, this classical destination theatre with Shakespeare in its name effectively puts them on equal footing with the Bard.
The Good Places
Many theatres consider ‘excellence’ a priority, even a mission. But what do we mean by that word?
Oregon Shakes’ 2019 Season to Feature Translated Shakespeare
Luis Alfaro’s bilingual ‘Comedy of Errors’ will be presented as the first of OSF’s Shakespeare translation project.
Native Women Rising
Why three premieres in Oregon are a sign of the times—and a long time coming.
A Troupe That Turns Tropes Into Takeoffs
The 1491s have gone from YouTube videos to live sketch comedy to a major play commission, and they’re laughing all the way.
Bill Rauch’s Next Once-in-a-Lifetime Move
The Oregon Shakes leader will cross the country to take on a new challenge: to lead a performing arts center at New York’s World Trade Center.
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.
