For a good many years (probably twenty) we had season’s tickets to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. OSF is a repertory company. Typically, their season runs from February to November and they present thirteen plays during that...
PLAYBILL Until I read the program notes in my OSF Playbill last night, I had no idea what a "ghost light" was. And I certainly didn't realize that we have one, of sorts, at home in Oysterville! "In the world of theatre, a 'ghost light' is...
Last night we saw Oregon Shakespeare Festival''s production of "Julius Caesar" in which Caesar is played by an actress. In order to make that work, the director chose to eliminate the role of Octavia (Caesar's wife), giving her lines to Mark...
The last time we were in Ashland (about six weeks ago), we were evacuated from the 'inner above' during a backstage tour of the Elizabethan Theater. Next door in the Bowmer Theater a huge supporting beam had cracked and, since the two...
On The Bricks at OSF, 2011 For several years now I’ve been lamenting the demise of the traditional Green Show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and feeling vaguely guilty about it. In the back of my mind is that little voice reminding me that...
Yellow Tape Around The Bowmer So there we were in the inner above at the Elizabethan Theater when disaster struck yesterday here in Ashland. We were on the Backstage Tour with a group of thirty other Festival goers listening to the intricacies...
At The Green Show When you live in Oysterville, or anywhere else on the Long Beach Peninsula for that matter, you are sensitive to the nuances of tourism. Businesses succeed or fail, friends are employed or not, real estate sales move or...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival We arrived late yesterday afternoon. The sun shone, the banners waved, and the town seemed clotted with young people – a reminder that school is out. I was pleased to see that last night’s SRO audience at the...