The History Play That Got Away
Oregon Shakes’s history-play commissioning project may not have funded the founding fathers hip-hop musical everyone’s talking about, but their slate so far is pretty revolutionary anyway.
Oregon Shakes’s history-play commissioning project may not have funded the founding fathers hip-hop musical everyone’s talking about, but their slate so far is pretty revolutionary anyway.
Why I’ve avidly watched the work of Cornerstone’s founding artistic director and of Oregon Shakes, both separately and together.
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Playwrights Meridith Friedman, Beth Kander, Brian Mulholland, and Skye Robinson Hillis will travel to Ashland for a weeklong festival to develop their winning works.
From the birth of P.T. Barnum to the Broadway debut of ‘A Chorus Line,’ July has many historical events to boast about.
The initiative will hold annual workshops to train national theatre leaders on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion.
A celebratory season of Shakespearean fare, limited engagements and special events.
Among a busy season of performances, the venue’s theatrical fare will include 9 plays for a variety of ages.
The season, partly selected by incoming artistic director Joseph Haj, is big on revivals, as well as area premieres of David Greig’s ‘The Events’ and Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced.’
Next season at the Oregon theatre will include world premieres from Sean Graney, Marisela Treviño Orta and Lisa Loomer, plus the completion of Shakespeare’s canon for the fourth time.