Will the theater community’s strides toward diversity include people with disabilities?
Suzi Steffen
The Complex Audience
The diversity of Portland’s theater, onstage and off.
Passion Project
It took 20 years, but a persistent dramaturg finally gets a pet project staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Fest.
OSF Reviews: My Fair Lady and Two Trains Running
[Read the first of Suzi Steffen’s reviews from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival here.] Jenny Graham My Fair Lady, Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director Bill Rauch told the media at a press conference, is only on the schedule this year because of director Amanda Dehnert’s passion for the project. Rauch—who loves the American musical, in general, […]
OSF Reviews: Taming of the Shrew and King Lear
Jenny Graham If you’ve seen the first episode of the beloved Canadian series Slings & Arrows, you’ll know how opening nights go: The director and the artistic director make their way down to the dressing rooms, there’s a lot of “Good opening!” and thrilled tourists, and then there’s the play, and a lot of drinking. […]
Oregon Shakespeare Fest: Preview!
Snow showers in the forecast, chains for the tires, puffy jackets over theater clothing—no big deal, it’s just opening weekend for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in little Ashland, whose traffic has begun as tourists and critics return to town. With a full year and a half between the cracked beam in the Bowmer Theatre and […]
Populist Theater Run Amok
Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella mashes things up at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
