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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1935 by Angus L. Bowmer. From late April through December each year, the Festival now offers 800 to 850 matinee and evening performances of a wide range of classic and contemporary plays not limited to Shakespeare to a total ...
It counts only main stage productions produced in Ashland and at OSF Portland. [ 2 ] The Festival has completed the canon of the first folio four times: the first time with Troilus and Cressida in 1958, and the remaining times with Timon of Athens in 1978, 1997, and 2016.
From 1886 to 1919, Frank Benson directed 28 spring and six summer "Shakespeare festivals" at the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford. [ 2 ] In 1935 the Oregon Shakespeare Festival , or OSF, was founded in Ashland, Oregon , USA.
Ashland Times-Gazette November 29, 2023 at 1:04 PM The Ashbrook Classic Theater Company will present "MacBeth" at 7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Sunday at The Ashland.
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Ashland, Oregon obtained WPA funds in 1935 to build it within the 12-foot (3.7 m) circular walls that remained in the roofless shell of the abandoned Chautauqua theatre. Bowmer extended the walls to reduce the stage width to fifty-five feet, and painted the extensions to resemble half-timbered buildings.
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Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. ... In 2010, the Shakespeare Festival employed about 500 people, the hospital about 400, ...