Category Archives: plays

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Cat on a Hot Tin Roof written by Tennessee Williams Oregon Shakespeare Festival at its best strips Classic Plays of their Greatness, and allows the actors on stage to tell a simple story … Continue reading →

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ruined written by Lynn Nottage This horror story opens with the audience being dropped into the middle of the ongoing uncivil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Mama Nadi (Kimberly Scott) … Continue reading →

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival  Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austin adapted by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan I saw Pride and Prejudice at its opening several months ago, and I have been struggling to write about it … Continue reading →

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Well written by Lisa Kron It’s 105 minutes of “Did You Get It?”-sledgehammer-over-the-audience’s-head time as Well crawls its way to an unsatisfying conclusion.   Stand-up comedian Lisa Kron wrote this sketch play that is … Continue reading →

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Hamlet written by William Shakespeare directed by Bill Rauch Dan Donohue’s Hamlet is so strong, so conversational, so underplayed, so accessible that every moment of the play belongs to him.  In some productions, … Continue reading →