Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe African Company Presents Richard III by Carlyle Brown The African Company Presents Richard III is a very satisfying vehicle to exhibit extraordinary acting in service of a a not terrible, not overwrought script.  The play-within-a-play scenes give us some riveting moments as the actors play their characters and then their characters slip into their roles in Shakespeare's Richard III for a few stanzas.  Kevin Kenerly (as James Hewlett) is excellent and the dominating presence on stage throughout the evening.  He's sweet, stupid, overly focused, driven, and practical as Hewlett, and then instantly differently [...]

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalGhost Light conceived and developed by Jonathan Moscone and Tony Taccone written by Tony Taccone directed by Jonathan Moscone When Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced it was commissioning a play on the shooting of Harvey Milk and George Moscone I was half pleased that gay civil rights would be a topic mentioned in the festival's 37-play United States History Cycle and half apprehensive about seeing another cover of the Milk assassination already spotlighted very well in Execution of Justice and in the movies The Times of Harvey Milk and Milk. My assumptions about the play topic [...]