Theater Articles

• 'The Illusion' at SOU - 5/20/2013

  With the help of a magician's elaborate sorcery, a distressed father seeks the son he banished long ago.

  
• A comedic performance true to Neil Simon's vision - 5/19/2013

  Play Review — "Forty-five Seconds from Broadway" doesn't have a plot, and maybe it doesn't need one. It's as if playwright Neil...

• A valentine to Broadway - 5/10/2013

  If the elegant Russian Tea Room on New York City's 57th Street is the hangout for the theater world's rich and famous, there is an equally beloved...

  
• 'Avenue Q' at Southern Oregon University - 5/10/2013

  If the real world is sometimes hard to understand, a visit to "Avenue Q" may solve your problems. The Tony Award-winning, zany musical comedy...

  
• '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...

• 'King Lear' in OSF's Thomas Theatre - 2/20/2013

  Read the Mail Tribune's review here — When the aging King Lear decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, he devises to...

  
• OSF's Angus Bowmer Theatre - 2/12/2013

  Read Mail Tribune's reviews here — The comic love story that is William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," along with Alan Jay...