Ashland Review: Guys and Dolls
REVIEW OF “GUYS AND DOLLS” by Dorothy Velasco March 17, 2015 I’ve got a tip for all you fun-loving guys and dolls. Put your money on the musical, “Guys and Dolls,” now playing in the Bowmer Theatre at...
View ArticleAshland Review: Fingersmith
REVIEW OF “FINGERSMITH” by Dorothy Velasco March 24, 2015 “Fingersmith,” the acclaimed Victorian crime novel by Sarah Waters, has been described as “Oliver Twist with a twist.” In the Oregon...
View ArticleAshland Review: Much Ado About Nothing
REVIEW OF “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” by Dorothy Velasco March 31, 2015 There is much to enjoy in the production of “Much Ado About Nothing,” now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Bowmer...
View ArticleGuiding Theatrical Space through Set Design
Christopher Acebo, Associate Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, will give a talk called “Guiding Space: An Exploration of Set Design in the Theater,” as part of Lane Arts Council’s...
View ArticleAshland Review: "Head Over Heels"
Among the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s summer openings, the funniest by far is the world premiere of the musical, “Head Over Heels,” at the Allen Elizabethan Theatre.With a script by Jeff Whitty,...
View ArticleAshland Review: Long Day's Journey Into Night
“Long Day’s Journey into Night,” Eugene O’Neill’s gut-wrenching family drama, is playing in a superlative production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Thomas Theatre.When O’Neill fashioned this play...
View ArticleAshland Review: Antony and Cleopatra
“Antony and Cleopatra,” now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is one of Shakespeare’s most confounding plays. Directors have a hard time deciding what it is. Battles, politics, lust,...
View ArticleAshland Review: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
Take two plays, one an ancient farce and the other a modern tale of lost love. Accidentally schedule them for a dress rehearsal on the same stage at the same time, and you have the starting point for...
View ArticleAshland Review: The Happiest Song Plays Last
“The Happiest Song Plays Last,” now at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Thomas Theatre, is part three of a trilogy by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Last year the Festival presented part two, “Water by the...
View ArticleAshland Review: Sweat
The last play to open at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this season is one of the very best. “Sweat,” a deeply satisfying new work by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, was commissioned as part of...
View ArticleSometimes Outdoor Theater And Wildfire Smoke Don’t Mix
It’s been a smoky summer in the Pacific Northwest. Wildfires have communities from Eastern Washington to Northern California gasping through days and weeks of poor air quality.In Ashland, home of the...
View ArticleWilliam Shakespeare, 400 Years Later: Sweetly Writ, with Lue Douthit
Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, one copy of the first collected works of his material is on display at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
View ArticleAshland Review: The River Bride
Who would have dreamed that a theater company in remote Ashland, Oregon, so far from New York, would be sending shows to Broadway and major theaters across the country?The Oregon Shakespeare Festival,...
View ArticleAshland Review: Twelfth Night
Shakespeare’s much loved comedy, “Twelfth Night,” is a joyful choice for the new season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.According to director Christopher Liam Moore, joyful is the operating word for...
View ArticleAshland Review: Great Expectations
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens is a grand novel. And it grandly fills the stage of the Bowmer Theatre at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
View ArticleAshland Review: The Yeomen of the Guard
Dorothy Velasco has this review of "The Yeomen of the Guard" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
View ArticleAshland Review: Hamlet
Many people consider Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” the greatest play ever written. They must be right because a full house sat through the play’s rainy opening night at Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s outdoor...
View ArticleAshland Review: Roe
Lisa Loomer’s new play, “Roe,” about the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in 1973, may well be this year’s most important American play.
View ArticleAshland Review: Vietgone
“Vietgone,” now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is a lively new comedy about Vietnamese refugees creating their version of an American life from scratch.
View ArticleAshland Review: The Wiz
“The Wiz,” a surprise Broadway hit over 40 years ago, has now landed on the outdoor stage at Ashland’s Allen Theatre. This funky black version of “The Wizard of Oz” won a Tony for best musical, but...
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