Episode 185. The TCG Conference
We visit the Theatre Communications Group annual conference in Chicago and chat with Paul Nicholson, Executive Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Cynthia Rider, Managing Director of the...
View ArticleEpisode 391. The Director’s Job
Jessica Thebus teaches Directing at Northwestern University and has directed classics and world premieres across the country at such theaters as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Huntington Theatre in...
View ArticleEpisode 456. Broadway’s ‘Something Rotten!’
Three of the stars and original cast members of the hit Broadway Shakespeare musical Something’s Rotten! — Heidi Blickenstaff, John Cariani, and Brad Oscar — talk about the process of creating an...
View ArticleEpisode 463. Rewriting William Shakespeare
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival recently announced “Play On!”, their project to create “translations” of all of Shakespeare’s plays, working with thirty-six contemporary playwrights and dramaturges,...
View ArticleEpisode 185. The TCG Conference
“We visit the Theatre Communications Group annual conference in Chicago and chat with Paul Nicholson, Executive Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Cynthia Rider, Managing Director of the...
View ArticleEpisode 391. The Director’s Job
“Jessica Thebus teaches Directing at Northwestern University and has directed classics and world premieres across the country at such theaters as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Huntington Theatre in...
View ArticleEpisode 456. Broadway’s “Something Rotten!”
Three of the stars and original cast members of the hit Broadway Shakespeare musical Something Rotten! — Heidi Blickenstaff, John Cariani, and Brad Oscar (pictured) — talk about the process of creating...
View ArticleEpisode 463. Rewriting William Shakespeare
“The Oregon Shakespeare Festival recently announced “Play On!”, their project to create “translations” of all of Shakespeare’s plays, working with thirty-six contemporary playwrights and dramaturges,...
View ArticleEpisode 516. The Q Brothers
“The Q Brothers are the creators of Othello: The Remix, now in previews off-Broadway, as well as their previous off-Broadway hit The Bombitty of Errors and other hip-hop interpretations of Shakespeare....
View ArticleEpisode 611. Burbage to Burbage
Kevin Kenerly is a 22-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is currently playing Richard Burbage in Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will (after having played Burbage in Shakespeare in Love...
View ArticleEpisode 615. American Revolutions Onstage
Julie Felise Dubiner is associate director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle, a multi-decade program of commissioning and developing 37 new plays...
View ArticleBecoming Henry V
Daniel Jose Molina brilliantly played Hal in both parts of Henry IV and the title role of Henry V At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2017 & 2018. Now quarantining in the Chicago area with his...
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