Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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• OSF boss warns of recession - 10/29/2008
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the rest of Ashland will feel a recession that could last beyond 2009, OSF Executive Director Paul Nicholson...

• Behind the scenes at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival - 9/26/2008
  

  Walking tours at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival explore the history, design and technology of repertory theatre. Visit OSF's three theatre...

• The Rauch Report - 9/21/2008
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2008 season was the first under its new artistic director.

• Rauch was charged with stretching boundaries at OSF - 9/21/2008
  

  Bill Rauch was picked in August 2006 to be the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the country's oldest and largest...

• Rauch on Rauch: Different voices add to the diversity of the festival - 9/21/2008
  

  Emerging from a meeting on the OSF's 2010 season, Bill Rauch won't give away any future secrets, but he reflects on the season now nearing its end,...

• OSF's Green Shows - 9/19/2008
  

  Free performances take place at 6:45 p.m. before evening theater performances every night of the week except Monday, on the bricks in the...

• The New Green Show - 8/29/2008
  

  Free performances take place at 6:45 p.m. before evening theater performances every night of the week except Monday, on the bricks in the...

• 'What You Will' - 8/22/2008
  

  Call it the Theater of the Parking Lot. Whatever you call it, it's something you don't see everyday.

• Review: Comedy wanders up, up and away - 8/8/2008
  

  Luis Alfaro's "Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner" is a good-hearted exploration of love, obsession, family, commitment and the imperatives of change, but...

• A 'Bridge' over troubled waters - 7/28/2008
  

  Libby Appel returned to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Saturday night with a full-blooded production of Arthur Miller's Everyman tragedy "A View...

• 'A View From the Bridge' - 7/25/2008
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's final play of the 2008 season, Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," will open Friday, July 25, in the OSF's...

• Celebrating Hispanic and Latino cultures - 7/18/2008
  

  In a first for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a five-day series of events paying tribute to the Hispanic/Latino culture is planned Wednesday, July...

• 'Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner' - 7/4/2008
  

  Luis Alfaro's new play, "Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner," which opens Saturday, July 5, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's New Theatre, 15 S....

• Review: In old Ephesus, a man's just gotta do comedy - 6/17/2008
  

  A huge noose hangs outside the Shady Pine Saloon in Ephesus, west of the Pecos- It reminds us of the fate awaiting Egeon, who turned up seeking...

• Review: At OSF, this 'Our Town' is your town - 6/16/2008
  

  The "Our Town" you saw in high school could probably give you a sugar high. A rounded production like the one that debuted Saturday night on the...

• Review: OSF's 'Othello' flies like a dart - 6/15/2008
  

  Early in the "Othello" that kicked off the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor season Friday, Dan Donohue as Iago, clad in black leather, positions...

• Wheels turning for OSF's 'Revolutions' - 6/14/2008
  

  Some familiar names are among the award-winning theater artists announced in connection with an ambitious new cycle of plays about American history...

• Great Green Show lineup - 6/9/2008
  

  The strains of Bach's "Concerto for Two Violins" and Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 1" drift into the hills around the Oregon Shakespeare Festival...

• At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival - 6/6/2008
  

  Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" will become the first American play to open on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor Elizabethan Stage/Allen...

• Postcards to the edge - 5/26/2008
  

  The thoughts are written on white, 3-by-5 cards tied by ribbons to an 18-foot tree of steel.

• What's next, Figaro? - 5/16/2008
  

  "Figaro Gets a Divorce" asks what happened after Beaumarchais' 1778 opus "The Marriage of Figaro.

• Finally, the conclusion to 'The Marriage of Figaro' - 5/13/2008
  

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present a reading of Odon von Horvath's comedy "Figaro Gets a Divorce" at 10 a.m.

• Much ado about Shakespeare: Is there a 'traditional' tradition? - 4/24/2008
  

  ASHLAND — Bill Rauch said Wednesday he once got a letter after a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" from a disgusted theatergoer asking if he...

• Review: Euripides meets 'Groundhog Day' at OSF - 4/21/2008
  

  Hedda Gabler is tired of the same old same old. Living out her days in a strange half-life in which dramatic characters are confined to the fate...

• New 'Coriolanus' at OSF feels distinctly contemporary - 3/31/2008
  

  On the Shakespeare canon popularity scale, "Coriolanus" ranks right up there with "Timon of Athens.

• Review: when 'Jenny' comes marching home - 2/27/2008
  

  There's something off-putting about topical, awareness-raising plays. They tend to be preachy.

• Review: 'Clay Cart' — rolling down the karma highway - 2/26/2008
  

  Seeing "The Clay Cart" is like going to a feast in a strange land.

• Review: August Wilson's 'Fences' is poetic, powerful - 2/25/2008
  

  Leah C. Gardiner has said Troy Maxson, the central character in August Wilson's "Fences," is tragic in the sense that King Lear is tragic.

• Review: Lusty 'Midsummer Night's Dream' is a revelation - 2/24/2008
  

  Mark Rucker's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Elizabethan style.