OSF 2010 Season opens February 19th!
February 13, 2010 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Northwest, Bill Rauch, Dan Donohue, Hamlet, OSF
In this sometimes dreary third week of February, Clan Murphy is all a-quiver that the wheel has not only turned on another new season of LOST, but is about to turn on another new season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Previews begin on February the 19th! Your Humble Bardolater will be attending (with her better [...]
A Glance Back at OSF 2009
January 16, 2010 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Actors, Anthony Heald, Bard Northwest, Bill Rauch, Catholic Shakespeare, Derrick Lee Weeden, Henry VIII, Jonathan Haugen, Kevin Kenerly, King Lear spinoffs, Macbeth, Macbeth spinoffs, Macbeth stage reviews, Much Ado About Nothing, Much Ado stage reviews, OSF, Robin Goodrin Nordli, Spinoffs, Uncategorized, Vilma Silva
Notwithstanding the gorgeous production of Death and the King’s Horseman starring Derrick Lee Weeden, the hugely entertaining Music Man starring Michel Elich, the side-splittingly funny Servant of Two Masters, and a wonderfully inventive production of All’s Well That Ends Well that actually made me, at least for two hours, actually like that ornery problem play, [...]
Roland Emmerich's upcoming De Vere-was-the-Bard movie vs. Bill Cain's Equivocation and the-Bard (Will)-was-a-Catholic stage play
December 19, 2009 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Anthony Heald, Bard Bio, Bardfilm, Catholic Shakespeare, King Lear spinoffs, Macbeth spinoffs, Motley Bard, OSF, Spinoffs
I know, I know, the Identity Question can be a real pain in the tuchus, but this looks like fun:
Film director Roland Emmerich, who has given us huge planet-killing flicks like 2012, has announced his intention of directing a different sort of (forgive me) what-if fantasy, this one forwarding the so-called “Oxfordian” theory that the [...]
The OSF, Music Man, and the (necessary) delights of Escapism
May 27, 2009 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Northwest, Bill Rauch, OSF
by Debra Murphy
Back in January, before the 2009 season got underway, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival hosted a Town Hall meeting in the Bowmer Theatre. Although the topic of conversation on everyone’s lips that evening was the potential effect of the Great Recession on the Festival, another (not entirely unrelated) topic was the inclusion of Meredith [...]
Death and the King's Horseman, OSF 2009
February 21, 2009 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Derrick Lee Weeden, G. Valmont Thomas, It Ain't Shakespeare, Kevin Kenerly, OSF, Rex Smith, U. Jonathan Toppo
[N.B. Bardolatry owes its opportunity to comment early on this marvelous production to director Chuck Smith, who generously offered the parishioners of Our Lady of the Mountain Catholic Church the opportunity to see the dress rehearsal on February 11. Ah, the bennies of living in beautiful Ashland, Oregon! The good news for the Oregon [...]
OSF RIchard III, 2005, directed by Libby Appel
February 7, 2009 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Northwest, Danforth Comins, Histories, James Newcomb, Libby Appel, OSF, Richard Elmore, Richard III, Richard III stage reviews, Robin Goodrin Nordli, Robynn Rodriguez
[N.B.: I just stumbled on this mini-review on the April 2005 archives of my homepage/blog, back before Bardolatry was covering PNW stage productions of Shax as well as movies, and thought ye PNW local yokels and OSF groupies would enjoy it.]
I’ve had a chance to see Richard III in the Bowmer Theatre and recommend it [...]
11 Great Regional Actors named Lunt-Fontanne Fellows
November 11, 2008 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard at Large, Dan Donohue, OSF
The Ten Chimneys Foundation in Wisconsin, founded by legendary theatre couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, has launched a fellowship program for the nation’s top regional actors. Here’s the description from the foundation’s site:
In the summer of 2008, eleven of the most prestigious and accomplished regional theatres in the country were invited to nominate multiple [...]
OSF Townhall Meeting, Monday October 27, 2008
October 27, 2008 by Debra Murphy
Filed under OSF, Spinoffs
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is hosting a free-to-the-public Town Hall Meeting on Monday, October 27 from 7 – 8:30 pm at the Bowmer Theatre in Ashland. Directors Bill Rauch and Paul Nicholson will be onhand, along with other OSF staff, for an open forum discussion.
The public was invited to e-mail questions or topics for discussion [...]
Readers Rep Theatre, Portland: The Trial of Shylock
October 24, 2008 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Northwest, Motley Bard, Spinoffs, The Merchant of Venice
SHAKESPERE’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL STORY AS A DARK ONE-ACT PLAY
WHO: Readers Theatre Repertory
WHAT: THE TRIAL OF SHYLOCK
WHEN: November 15-16, 2008 8PM
WHERE: Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Av., Portland 97209
HOW MUCH: $8.00
RESERVATIONS: 503.295.4997; info@readerstheatrerep.org
Readers Theatre Repertory distills Shakespeare’s polemical play The Merchant of Venice to its darkest essence on November 15-16, with THE TRIAL OF SHYLOCK. RTR’s one-act offering is [...]
OSF 2009 Casting News
October 21, 2008 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Northwest, David Kelly, Derrick Lee Weeden, Jonathan Haugen, OSF, Robynn Rodriguez
The OSF has just put out a press release, one I always look forward to, giving us OSF groupies some hints as to next season’s casting. There are some very cool developments among the tidbits, not the least of which being that our sorrow over the absence next year of Dan Donohue–he’ll be working in [...]
