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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.The Festival now offers matinee and evening performances of a wide range of classic and contemporary plays not limited to Shakespeare.
In 2014, the Festival announced their Canon in a Decade initiative. In the next ten years, from 2015 to 2024, the Festival would be producing the complete Shakespeare Canon to honor the 80th anniversary of the festival. [32] [non-primary source needed] This project is in progress, and may have been affected by shut downs due to the COVID-19 ...
A Shakespeare festival is a theatre organization that stages the works of William Shakespeare continually. Origins ... Oregon Shakespeare Festival — Ashland, ...
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Jerry Turner (1927–2004) served as artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 1971 to 1991. He transformed the festival from a summer program for semi-professional actors into one of the top regional theaters in the country by leading the Ashland, Oregon-based company beyond its Shakespearean repertoire.
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.
Ashland Times-Gazette November 29, 2023 at 10:04 AM The Ashbrook Classic Theater Company will present "MacBeth" at 7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Sunday at The Ashland.
Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Interstate 5 approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of the California border and near the south end of the Rogue Valley. The city's population was 21,360 at the 2020 census. The city is the home of Southern Oregon University (SOU) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF ...