Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Festival News & reviews

• NPR variety show will visit OSF stage - 10/25/2009
  

  "West Coast Live," National Public Radio's variety show from the San Francisco Bay Area, will originate from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Angus...

• OSF's Bill Rauch wins national award - 10/21/2009
  

  ASHLAND — Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch has won a prestigious theater award.

• OSF's Green Shows - 9/4/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show begins at 6:45 p.m. every day but Monday in the festival courtyard, 15 S. Pioneer St., Ashland.

• OSF's Green Shows - 8/28/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show takes place at 6:45 p.m. daily except Mondays in the festival courtyard, 15 S. Pioneer St., Ashland.

• Ticket sales rise for OSF - 8/28/2009
  

  ASHLAND — Ticket sales at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival have increased 1 percent compared with last year's sales, despite the economic slump.

• OSF's Green Shows - 8/21/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show takes place at 6:45 p.m. every day but Monday in the festival courtyard, 15 S. Pioneer St., Ashland.

• The Daedalus Project - 8/14/2009
  

  For the 22nd year, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present its annual Daedalus Project.

• OSF's Green Shows - 8/14/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show will take place at 7:15 p.m. every day but Monday in the festival courtyard, 15 S. Pioneer St.

• Celebrating Oregon history - 8/7/2009
  

  New York Times columnist and Oregon native Nicholas Kristof will be the featured speaker when the Oregon Shakespeare Festival hosts the second in a...

• OSF receives $35,000 to stage 'Pride and Prejudice' - 7/30/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has received $35,000 from the Oregon Cultural Trust to help produce a stage adaptation of Jane Austen's classic...

• 'Paradise' 2009: Missing and presumed lost - 7/27/2009
  

  When Harold Clurman came to direct "Paradise Lost" in 1935 he thought the characters "mad." They still are.

• OSF's Green Shows - 7/24/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show will take place at 7:15 p.m. every day but Monday in the festival courtyard, 15 S....

• Review: This 'All's Well' really does end well - 7/5/2009
  

  The plays of Shakespeare bubble with vitality four centuries on in part because canny directors continue to tease new resonances out of them.

• 'All's Well that Ends Well' - 6/26/2009
  

  Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well" is usually thought of as a "problem play," an ambiguous comedy-drama that doesn't seem to offer clear...

• OSF announces more artists for American Revolutions - 6/17/2009
  

  ASHLAND — The Oregon Shakespeare Festival on Friday announced a second round of theater artists to be commissioned for its ambitious American...

• Oregon Shakespeare Festival launches Black Swan Lab for new theater works - 6/17/2009
  

  New theater works using Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors will be developed in the Black Swan Lab, which the festival will launch July 7.

• Warmhearted 'Much Ado' focuses on love - 6/16/2009
  

  In the eavesdropping scene in the new "Much Ado About Nothing" that opened Sunday on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Elizabethan Stage, the...

• A new 'Don Quixote' lights up the OSF stage - 6/15/2009
  

  George Bernard Shaw could have been thinking of Don Quixote when he said that courage will not save you, but it will show that your soul is alive.

• Review: OSF's new 'Henry VIII' is gorgeous but underwhelming - 6/14/2009
  

  John Sipes, who directed the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's sumptuous new "Henry VIII," says that the play brings to mind pageantry and the fall of...

• Much ado about setting - 6/12/2009
  

  When the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Bill Rauch asked Kate Buckley to think about a contemporary production of "Much Ado About Nothing," the...

• Imagination on the OSF stage - 6/8/2009
  

  Don Quixote's horse, Rocinante, has bloodshot eyes, domino teeth and longish ears a la Bottom, the donkey-dreaming weaver from "A Midsummer Night's...

• OSF's Elizabethan Theatre opens - 6/5/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival promises its new production of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII," which previews Friday, June 5, will be staged with all the...

• OSF's Green Shows - 5/29/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show will take place at 7:15 p.m. every day but Monday beginning Tuesday, June 2, in the...

• OSF's Green Shows - 5/27/2009
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Green Show will take place at 7:15 p.m. every day but Monday in the festival courtyard, 15 S. Pioneer St.

• 'Equivocation' works on many levels - 4/20/2009
  

  When the priest Henry Garnet was tried in 1606 for his involvement in the previous year's Gunpowder Plot, a hot issue was that of equivocation.

• Lecture at OSF - 4/10/2009
  

  Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor David Kelly will give a free talk at noon Saturday, April 11, at Carpenter Hall on the OSF campus, 15 S. Pioneer St.

• OSF's 'Servant of Two Masters' is a play within a play - 3/30/2009
  

  The central conceit of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's new production of "The Servant of Two Masters" is that a troupe of actors is struggling to...

• 'The Servant of Two Masters' - 3/27/2009
  

  Commedia dell'arte (comedy of art) is one of those theatrical forms that seems to have been around forever. It's actually about 500 years old,...

• Beyond Words - 3/8/2009
  

  OSF actor Howie Seago employs sign language to find the rhythm of 'The Music Man'