Shakespeare

Gabriella Calicchio will become the fifth executive director at the 89-year-old theater institution in Southern Oregon.

After a change in leadership and lackluster ticket sales during the pandemic, the festival's upcoming season will feature nine plays, four more than the current season.

The Ashland theater company announced an emergency fundraising campaign to “Save Our Season, Save OSF” and said it will also suspend planning for the 2024 season.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced a slew of staffing changes this week as part of a "restructuring strategy aimed at aligning its business model with its vision and realities of the post-pandemic market."

Since news broke of the festival's artistic director Nataki Garrett hiring a private security detail for her personal safety. there has been a massive outpouring of support from cultural organizations across the country.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival adjusts season schedule as it bids goodbye to Artistic Director Bill Rauch.

November of this year marks the end of the 80th season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Plays were first staged at the site of a former Chautauqua meeting hall and are still performed at that same site today.

Thirty-six playwrights will take on the task of making Shakespeare's plays a little easier to understand.

The famed company will commission 36 playwrights to translate the Bard's entire canon into contemporary English over the next three years.

As the Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 80th season, we talk about how the theater has impacted the town, and how Ashland has changed over the years.