At last, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival mounts a play about the festival’s namesake. Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy is one of the ten plays…
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OSF Artistic Director Nataki Garrett steps down.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s artistic director, Nataki Garret, has resigned from the Festival. Announced earlier this month, Garrett plans her last day to be May 31.…
Oregon Shakespeare Festival asks for $2.5 million in emergency fundraising campaign
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is seeking $2.5 million in donations to save its 2023-2024 season. A cultural mainstay of Ashland, the festival started in 1935,…
A Review of “Once on This Island” at OSF
Once on This Island (2022): Dominique Lawson, Ayvah Johnson, Ciera Dawn, and Ensemble. Photo by Jenny Graham. Image Credit Oregon Shakespeare Festival There’s nothing that cures…
Pirronne Yousefzadeh and the Importance of Community and Inclusion in OSF’s “It’s Christmas, Carol”
Brent Hinkley, John Tufts, Safiya Fredericks, Mark Bedard. Image Credit Jenny Graham, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Before winter break, I had the absolute pleasure of seeing…
Play On Podcasts: “Pericles” Starring Keith David, Kathleen Chalfant, Johanna Day
Play On Podcasts, a new scripted fiction podcast series presented by Play On Shakespeare in partnership with Next Chapter Podcasts, announces Ellen McLaughlin’s “Pericles”, directed…
And the Winners of the SOU Student Film Festival Are….
Photo courtesy of SOU Student Film Festival Last night the SOU Student Film Festival hosted students and community members for a magical, socially distanced, film…
Dive into OSF’s First Holiday Production with OSF Favorite: John Tufts
Photo by Oregon Shakespeare Festival Last month the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) announced the schedule for its 2021 season, all featured online until fall, when…
Ashland Earns Eighth MovieMaker Honor
Photo courtesy of the Digital Cinema Program Ashland does it again: MovieMaker magazine added Southern Oregon University’s hometown to its 2021 list of Best Places to Live and…
African American Shakespeare: Past, Present, Future
The history of Shakespeare and race is a complicated one. Often, Shakespeare’s immense portfolio has a hidden or even obvious stigma against BIPOC performers. Shakespeare…