Theatre Artists With Disabilities Are Ready, Willing, and, Yes, Able
Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
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Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
Though our ‘Play on!’ commissioning project has met with some vocal disapproval, the work is grounded in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s core values—and our love for the Bard.
Oregon Shakespeare Fest’s new translation project pits purity against clarity, 400 years of reverence against a few hours’ traffic of the stage.
Coming to Oregon Shakes on the heels of her TV fame as the Log Lady, she stayed for 22 seasons and became an indispensable part, and heart, of the company.
Thirty-six playwrights have been commissioned to ‘translate’ the Shakespeare canon into contemporary English.
An issue of a magazine, like a theatrical season, is a menu of options reflecting our tastes, affinities, and priorities.
Theatres that continue to program male-dominated seasons deserve scrutiny. But what about the many companies that are trying to get the balance right?
The theatre’s idealistic leader isn’t resting on its considerable laurels but pushing it to be more, and do more, all the time.
The city-bred playwright has gotten to know another America in rural Oregon, where both liberal and conservative communities are failing their young people.
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.