Online This Week: Taylor Mac’s Special ‘Sauce’
Concerts and benefits, as well as starry revivals and readings, fill this week’s stocking.
All Stories About Play On Shakespeare
Online This Week: We Three Categories
Concerts, a ‘Carol’ or 3, and a surfeit of readings, benefits, and other virtual theatre kick off December in abundant style.
Kamilah Long Named Play On Shakespeare Managing Director
Long will share leadership with CEO and creative director Lue Douthit.
Dr. Shakespeare, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Play On
An ambitious effort to hire contemporary playwrights to translate the Bard into modern English is about to deliver the goods.
Oregon Shakes’ 2019 Season to Feature Translated Shakespeare
Luis Alfaro’s bilingual ‘Comedy of Errors’ will be presented as the first of OSF’s Shakespeare translation project.
Offscript: Translating Shakespeare With Lue Douthit
This week’s guest Lue Douthit, director of Play on! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, discusses translating Shakespeare. Plus the editors talk about Humana.
Why We’re Translating Shakespeare
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.
Scripture Is Changeable, But Shakespeare? Heaven Forfend
Oregon Shakespeare Fest’s new translation project pits purity against clarity, 400 years of reverence against a few hours’ traffic of the stage.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Launches Shakespeare Translation Project
Thirty-six playwrights have been commissioned to ‘translate’ the Shakespeare canon into contemporary English.
