Oregon Shakespeare Festival announces 2016 season

The 2015 season is only just underway, and yet here comes 2016.

Some quick highlights appear to be:

* An outdoor HAMLET
* THE WIZ – also outdoors (seat belts on, people)
* A world premiere about ROE vs. WADE by Lisa Loomer
* Vietnamese-American take on Viet Nam war
* TWELFTH NIGHT

Try and imagine what this is going to feel like with THE WIZ on stage.
Try and imagine what this is going to feel like with THE WIZ on stage.

2016 Season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Press Release

Angus Bowmer Theatre

TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare
Directed by Christopher Liam Moore
February 19 – October 30

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Adapted by Penny Metropulos and Linda Alper
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens
Directed by Penny Metropulos
February 20 – October 30
World Premiere Adaptation

THE RIVER BRIDE by Marisela Treviño Orta
Directed by Laurie Woolery
February 21 – July 7
World Premiere

ROE by Lisa Loomer
Directed by Bill Rauch
April 20 – October 29
World Premiere/American Revolutions

TIMON OF ATHENS by William Shakespeare
Directed by Amanda Dehnert
July 27 – October 29

Thomas Theatre

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD Music by Arthur Sullivan; Libretto by W.S. Gilbert
Directed by Sean Graney
February 24 – October 31
World Premiere Adaptation

VIETGONE by Qui Nguyen
Directed by May Adrales
March 30– October 30

RICHARD II by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Rauch
July 5 – October 31

Allen Elizabethan Theatre

HAMLET by William Shakespeare
Director TBA
June 7 – October 14

THE WIZ Book by William F. Brown; Music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls
From the story “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum
Directed by Robert O’Hara
June 8 – October 15

THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare
Directed by Desdemona Chiang
June 9 – October 16