Theatre

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back in full this season, with a new focus centered around greater access for patrons.

Actors have to make what they do on stage look realistic to an audience. But they don't stop being their real selves when they're acting. So situations…

It's the big Broadway musicals that get much of the attention in the theatre world, and for good reason: they bring in the bucks. "Hamilton" makes…

Writers and composers have created musicals about all kinds of subjects, why not "the change?" You mean...? Yep. "Menopause the Musical" travels the…

"Walter Cronkite is Dead" is certainly a catchy title for a play. But it could also have been called "Presila Quinby is Leaving." Quinby is a longtime…

Somehow, the things that we fear in our society are just a little less fearful when we get the story from puppets. That's right, puppets, fuzzy puppets.…

Who would come to see a play with the actors just standing and reading off a script? Lots of people, it turns out. Especially if the plays are new works…

Acting may be fun and rewarding work, but it requires a lot of the actor; preparation, audition, rehearsal, and more. Theatre professionals Jackie Apodaca…

It's not like we can interview characters from TV's long-running cartoon "The Simpsons." But... there IS a play based on Simpsons characters coming to a…

"Let's go watch people read scripts out loud," may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but it packs in the crowds in Ashland. Especially for the…

It is not unusual for a high school to put on a few plays. It's less usual for a high school to put on consistently good plays. And rare indeed is the…

Bertold Brecht left Germany shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. But Brecht's dislike of Hitler waned little in self-exile, resulting in the play…