Oregon Shakespeare Festival

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is an annual festival held from February to October in Ashland, Oregon, near Oregon's border with California. It defines its mission to be the creation of "fresh and bold interpretations of classic and contemporary plays in repertory, shaped by the diversity of our American culture, using Shakespeare as standard and inspiration."

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Ashland, Oregon - Oregon - California - Repertory - Shakespeare

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While OSF has produced non-Shakespearean works since 1960, each season continues to include three to five Shakespeare plays. Since 1935, it has staged his complete canon three times, completing the first cycle in 1958 with a production of Troilus and Cressida and completing the second and third cycles through the works in 1978 and 1997.

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1960 - 1935 - 1958 - Troilus and Cressida - 1978 - 1997

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Currently, a typical season at OSF consists of eleven shows: five performed in the large, indoor Angus Bowmer Theatre, and three each in the open-air Elizabethan Stage and the intimate New Theatre. Each actor usually performs in two or three shows at a time, as well as understudying other perfomers.

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In recent years, OSF has shown a strong commitment to new work, presenting world premieres of plays by Pulitzer Prize winners Nilo Cruz and Robert Schenkkan.

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Nilo Cruz - Robert Schenkkan

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