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 [...]
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 [...]
Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2008 Coriolanus
October 3, 2008 by Debra Murphy
Filed under Bard Northwest, Coriolanus, Coriolanus stage Reviews, Danforth Comins, Laird Williamson, Libby Appel, OSF, Robynn Rodriguez
We spent a fair amount of time on OSF’s Othello, so now that we’ve finally been able to catch all three of OSF’s other Shakespeare productions this year—Coriolanus, Comedy of Errors, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream—I thought we should take a moment, before the season ends, to make a couple of quick comments. Next year, [...]
