Now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, "Come From Away" is based on a true story of hospitality in remote Newfoundland following the tragic 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York. When the Federal Aviation Administration closes the US airways, flights are rerouted to small town Canadian airports. Gander Airport, located in a town of about 7,000, welcomes almost 7,000 passengers, thus doubling the need for everything from baby food to toilet paper.

It’s been a while since A Midsummer Night’s Dream was last performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. For many Festival-goers this early comedy by Shakespeare is their favorite. It’s a flexible play that can be given many interpretations.

You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!, now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Thomas Theatre, is a new comedy by Keiko Green about a nice man named Greg who learns that he will soon die of pancreatic cancer.

A Raisin in the Sun is the gem of the spring season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Insightfully directed by Tim Bond, the Festival’s Artistic Director, this brilliant masterpiece by Lorraine Hansberry was the first play by a Black American woman to be performed on Broadway. The New York Drama Critics’ Circle named it the best play of 1959.

The exuberant production now playing at the Allen Elizabethan Theatre might be described as Shakespeare on steroids.

Fans of Westerns have revered Shane, both the book by Jack Schaefer and the 1953 film, for generations. And now, new fans can enjoy a highly original stage adaptation by Karen Zacarias at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. KLCC's Dorothy Velasco has a review of the west coast premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Although Quixote Nuevo, written by Octavio Solis, a playwright long affiliated with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, often seems too long and too jumbled, director Lisa Portes makes sure the surprises are impactful.

Dorothy Velasco reviews Jitney, performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, 2025.

Dorothy Velasco reviews Fam Ham performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Dorothy Velasco reviews Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of The Importance of Being Earnest.