The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othello lacks a tragic dimension not because it highlights Othello’s “Otherness,” but because it eschews any vestige of grandeur or nobility.
Bill Rauch
Theater Review: “Fingersmith” — A Complaisant Thriller
Bill Rauch and company keep the superficial contrivances hurtling along at a fast enough pace so we aren’t given much time to think.
Fuse Theater Review: “Night is a Room”—Primal Bluster
Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room’s sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.
Theater Review: “King Lear” — Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Monumental Achievement
Director Bill Rauch’s concept and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company have, in a small space, created an achievement of monumental, yet personal, proportion.
Theater Review Diary: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival — A Worthy Theatrical Adventure
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country – but make reservations early.
Fuse Theater Review: Not Quite “All The Way”
Pulitzer prize-winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan is chained to a dreary, fact-driven approach in “All the Way,” tossing in bits and pieces of “what if” for unconvincing dramatic effect.
