Ashland Theater Review: Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles
In “Mojada, A Medea in Los Angeles,” playwright Luis Alfaro manages an impressive feat, melding a Greek tragedy with a heartbreaking story of Mexican immigrants. Now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare...
View ArticlePresident Trump's Budget Plan May Hurt Shakespearean Troupe's Outreach
President Trump is weighing deep cuts in his budget plan, including all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). A major theater group in Oregon fears that could affect children’s access...
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: Henry IV, Part One
Guilt, anger, revenge. Riotous hilarity, mortal enemies, Falstaff bigger than life, Prince Hal in a hoody. Yes, it’s “Henry IV, Part One” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s intimate Thomas Theatre,...
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: The Odyssey
Dorothy Velasco reviews the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of The Odyssey , adapted for the stage by Mary Zimmerman.
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: UniSon
Dorothy Velasco reviews Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of UniSon , a musical based on the poetry of August Wilson.
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: Hannah and the Dread Gazebo
Dorothy Velasco reviews Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Hannah and the Dread Gazebo , the first play by Jiehae Park.
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Dorothy Velasco reviews the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: Off the Rails
Dorothy Velasco reviews the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Off the Rails , the first play by a Native American to be performed at OSF. This is KLCC. I’m Dorothy Velasco with the Ashland...
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: Destiny of Desire
Hola, mis amigos! I just saw a play by Karen Zacarias at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival called “Destiny of Desire,” and it’s more fun than a Mexican telenovela. Well, it is a telenovela, a Latin-style...
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: Henry V
“Oh for a muse of fire.” Reminiscent of Homer’s Iliad, so begins “Henry V” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As directed by Rosa Joshi, this compelling and inventively stylized production is a fine...
View ArticleAshland Theater Review: Othello
Shakespeare’s “Othello,” now playing in a well nuanced production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is always painful to watch. The Moor is a brilliant admiral who succeeds in protecting Venice from...
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...
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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