Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Executive Director Gabriella Calicchio joins us to talk about what OSF will do to appeal to audiences and regain financial footing — in the short and long term.

The 2025 season will feature nine shows. They include Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with an all-female and nonbinary cast, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and the storybook musical Into the Woods.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 season will be able to finish out this year thanks to a successful emergency fundraising campaign.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has recently struggled with staffing changes and financial turmoil. These shifts at the Ashland theater company have led many to wonder: How did OSF get here?

Also inside: Multnomah County seeks input for the design phase of a new Burnside Bridge and Oregon Rep. Susan Bonamici introduces a bill to address Oregon's public defender crisis.

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After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.

Several Oregon Shakespeare Festival shows have been canceled through Sunday because of a high number of COVID-19 cases among the cast and crew.

With an immersive show opening later this week, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is proving that despite its name, Southern Oregon’s well-regarded repertory arts group is innovating in ways well beyond the theater tradition of the English Bard.

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