Join Dr. Lue Douthit, Director of Research & Practice at Play On Shakespeare, and Michael P Jensen, Contributing Editor of The Shakespeare Newsletter, for an engaging series of three talks on the Shakespeare plays produced by The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2026. Meetings are every third Monday in March, April, and May.

In this month's talk, designed as a prep before seeing the OSF production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mike Jensen gives his impractical take on how the play came to be written, the pivot it made in Shakespeare’s career, and the Beatles performing in one scene. Lue Douthit provides a practical outline to show how the story functions with tips on what to look for when seeing the Festival’s production.

Mark your calendars for each lecture in this series:

March 16th at 1pm for A Midsummer Night's Dream

April 20th at 1pm for Henry IV, Part I

May 18th at 1pm for The Taming of the Shrew