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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland announced Tuesday that it’s hired a new executive director. That’s after a nearly two year national search.
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The organization is working to recover its financial footing after ticket sales plummeted during the COVID pandemic.
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The curtain rises soon on another season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It is the first season under the solo direction of Nataki Garrett, installed…
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Just about every country on the planet has its own distinctive style of dance. Charya Burt works in the style of her native country, Cambodia. Cambodian…
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a really big deal, not just in Southern Oregon, but nationally.Here’s what NBC Radio had to say about it back in…
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The work of August Wilson has been staged on plays around the world. But his poetry takes center stage in a new work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival…
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A forest fire threatened the city of Ashland, Ore., and its historic Lithia Park on Aug. 8, 1959. Steve Hess, son of Ashland’s Postmaster Parker Hess, was…
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is quite serious about extending discussions of its plays into the real world, the world beyond the stage. The world…
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Latinos make up the largest minority group in America, with great cultural and growing political power. The cultural end of that influence is reflected in…
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has made it clear for years that its work extends beyond the confines of its stages, to a real interest in people and the…
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The Bard has been dead for 400 years, but the offerings of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are hardly stuck in the past. Living playwrights also grace the…
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Fingersmith breathes subterfuge. Peopled by pickpockets and con artists, its action descends a rabbit hole of nefarious plotting. The central characters…
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Sword fighters, craps players, and history's most famous queen will join many other characters on stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival during the…
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CultureFest at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is like the Olympics in one way: it only occurs every other year. So if this is 2014, it must be…