Nataki Garrett Named Next Artistic Director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival
A director and administrator known for championing new work, she is poised to lead one of the nation’s leading theatres.
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Offscript Live at the Signature: Best Practices for Diversity
In the inaugural joint event between American Theatre and Signature Theatre Company, a discussion with Bill Rauch, Ralph Peña, Erica Jensen, and Jacob Padrón on successful strategies for making more equitable theatre.
Choreographer: Robert Barry Fleming
Inspired as much by the avant-garde as by Golden Age Broadway, this multiple threat has a varied and ever-expanding toolkit.
Cast With Diverse Approaches
How to make sure your shows are truly inclusive.
Roll Out the Welcome Wagon
Company managers wear many hats, all fashioned to make out-of-town artists feel at home at the theatre.
Wildfires Cost Oregon Shakes Millions, and There’s a Human Toll
This summer the Ashland theatre faced dozens of cancelled and moved performances and some personnel attrition.
‘Oklahoma!,’ Still Okay?
Two new revivals—one ebulliently LGBTQ, another brooding and immersive—make this musical warhorse run in new directions.
The Way Idris Goodwin Moves
With works like ‘How We Got On’ and ‘This Is Modern Art,’ his plays are an intoxicating mix of hip-hop and social history.
In With the New at Oregon Shakes
By doing such vital work by living playwrights, this classical destination theatre with Shakespeare in its name effectively puts them on equal footing with the Bard.
The Good Places
Many theatres consider ‘excellence’ a priority, even a mission. But what do we mean by that word?