Winter’s Tale has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I look at its peculiar structure as a challenge rather than an obstacle, and when...
Ninety-nine percent of this year’s production of Twelfth Night at OSF is sheer genius. The set design for its nominal 1930s Hollywood transposition is clever in...
If you are a Gilbert & Sullivan purist, you may want to steer clear of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s current incarnation of Yeomen of the Guard...
And so, after a much-too-long hiatus, we return — with, I hope, rather more frequent updating in the weeks and months to come. At the very...
I sent off some correspondence tonight to a friend who’d asked for a general introduction to the world of fanfiction — and realized, in the process,...
Five plays in three days — that’s the schedule for my annual visit to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, hosted by the Whitman College alumni office (which...
OryCon begins tomorrow (where did the time go?), and I have an unusually busy schedule for the weekend. (Three panels as moderator? What was I thinking? ...
Back from our annual pilgrimage to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival — as usual, well-stuffed with (mostly) very good theater. First up this year was Richard III,...
Counter-intuitive thought for the day: reading a bad book can be good for you. Yes, really. Let me explain: From a craft standpoint, sometimes one way...