Theater Articles

• 'Cymbeline' finds its success in excess - 6/16/2013

  Is that old rascal Shakespeare having us on? Take a plucky heroine a la Viola or Rosalind.

• Festival Noons - 6/14/2013

  The series begins Tuesday, June 18. Lectures will be given by company artists and visiting scholars on Wednesdays and Fridays.

  
• 'Jekyll & Hyde' at Camelot - 6/14/2013

  Good versus evil — can we choose one over the other? Or are they both forever intertwined in our very being? What happens when the carefully...

  
• What happens in Vegas really should stay in Vegas - 6/9/2013

  Did you hear the one about the five nuns in Vegas? Even if you haven't, it seems like you have.

• 'Nunsensations' at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre - 5/31/2013

  Those singin', dancin' nuns, the Little Sisters of Hoboken, are back. "Nunsensations: The Nunsense Las Vegas Revue" is writer, composer and...

  
• Romance and adventure on the Elizabethan Stage - 5/31/2013

  "Cymbeline," "The Heart of Robin Hood" and "A Midsummer's Night Dream" will turn the outdoor Elizabethan Stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival...

  
• 'A Streetcar Named Desire' - 4/18/2013

  Read the Mail Tribune's review here — When fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois finds herself down on her luck, she moves in with her...

  
• 'Dogpark: The Musical' at Oregon Cabaret Theatre - 3/29/2013

  Read the Mail Tribune's review here — Central Bark is where every dog has his — or her — day. But speed-mating and yappy...

  
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival premieres 'The Unfortunates' - 3/27/2013

  Read the Mail Tribune's review here — Take the classic American blues-jazz song "St. James Infirmary Blues," mix in a bit of story...

  
• "Two Trains Running" at OSF - 3/5/2013

  Tuesday, March 5 — “Two Trains Running” plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland tonight, and it’s well...

  
• Spare production fills bleak world of 'King Lear' - 2/27/2013

  As Lear rages into the storm in director Bill Rauch's stripped-down "King Lear," flashlights cast about in a struggle to pierce a darkness that's...

  
• OSF makes it big with 'My Fair Lady' - 2/26/2013

  Sometimes characters take on a life of their own. Like Anton Chekhov, who kept insisting "The Cherry Orchard" was a comedy.

  
• 'Two Trains Running' covers miles with its dialogue - 2/25/2013

  It is 1969, and the Vietnam War is hurling the country toward self-immolation. In York, Pa.

• OSF's 'All the Way' wins Kennedy Prize for Drama - 2/22/2013

  A play about former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012, was one of two inaugural winners of...