Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Founded in 1935 during the Great Depression, Oregon Shakespeare Festival continues to present their entire season in rotating repertory. A resident company of 84 actors and 450 other artists and artisans will present 822 performances in three theaters over a season, with as many as five different plays performed in a single day. Four plays by Shakespeare and eight plays by other classic and contemporary playwrights will be performed on the outdoor Elizabethan Stage, which seats 1,200 and is the oldest existing full-scale Elizabethan stage in the Western Hemisphere; in the Angus Bowmer Theatre that seats 601; and at their intimate New Theatre that seats 270-360. The company will create their first site-specific production, Willful, at various indoor and outdoor locations around the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s campus.

As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present four Shakespeare plays: Henry IV: Part Two, Julius Caesar, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and Romeo and Juliet. Activities will include related classroom curricula, actor workshops, post-performance discussions, tour, Prologues, and teacher training classes for underserved schools located in Oregon and California. The Festival will work with low-income elementary-, middle-, and high-school students who participate in its School Visit Partnerships, Bowmer Project for Student Playgoers, and Ashland Schools project.