OSF 2010 Season opens February 19th!

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

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

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

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 RIchard III, 2005, directed by Libby Appel

[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

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

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 [...]

OSF 2009 Casting News

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

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, [...]

The Plague of Jealousy: more on Othello at OSF, 2008

Having seen the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2008 production of Othello twice now, I have two strong recommendations: 1) See it while you still can—it only plays in the outdoor Elizabethan through early October, and, 2) Get seats as close to the stage as you can beg, borrow or steal.
The Elizabethan is a big outdoor venue, [...]

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