Theatre in the Summertime
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, Oregon is among the oldest and largest professional non-profit theatres in the nation. Each year OSF presents an eight-and-a-half-month season of eleven plays in three theatres plus numerous ancillary activities, and undertakes an extensive theatre education program. Operating on a budget exceeding $26 million, OSF presents more than 780 performances annually with attendance of over 410,000 people in the beautiful mountain setting of the Rogue Valley.
2012 Season:
● Romeo and Juliet (February 17-November 4)
● The White Snake, adapted by Mary Zimmerman (February 18 - July 8)
● Animal Crackers, book by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind, music & lyrics by Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, reconceived from an adaptation by Henry Wishcamper (February 19-November 4)
● Seagull, by Anton Chekov, adapted by Libby Appel (February 23-June 22)
● Troilus and Cressida (March 28-November 4)
● Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, adapted by Bill Rauch & Tracy Young from Euripides, Shakespeare and Rogers & Hammerstein (April 18-November 3)
● Henry V (June 5-October 12)
● The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa, adapted from Shakespeare by Alison Carey (June 6-October 13)
● As You Like It (June 7-October 14)
● Party People, by Universes (July 3-November 3)
● All the Way, by Robert Schenkkan (July 25-November 3)
