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RCC students performing updated “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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Theater art students at Rogue Community College will present a version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that has been adapted to modern-day language. Performances are scheduled 3-4:15 p.m. June 6 and 11 in the Rogue Auditorium, RCC Redwood Campus, 3345 Redwood Hwy.

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King Lear

Asbestos Arks, by Catie Faryl

KING LEAR The day after seeing King Lear at Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Thomas Theatre, I hurried to the library and checked out three different books about the play.  Of course I’ve seen King Lear at least four or five times, but in the intimate setting of the smallest theatre on OSF’s campus I saw and [...]

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Stories Behind the Statistics

“I was in a play once!” I’m standing in line at a bookstore in my neighborhood, and the woman behind me is telling me her story. She recognized me from a show I did last spring, see, and her eyes light up as she tells me about her high school musical—how she almost didn’t audition, [...]

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Is Creativity THE 21st Century Skill?

YES is the answer to this question judging from the enthusiastic audience response on October 10 to Imagination Stage’s Creative Conversation on the topic. One hundred and forty parents, educators, and other stakeholders attended a panel discussion, moderated by Doug Herbert of the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office of Innovation & Improvement, and then enjoyed [...]

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Art Works Podcast: Michele Lowe

August 2, 2012 By Josephine Reed Piter Marek and Alok Tewari in a Denver Center Theatre production of Inana. Photo by Terry Shapiro This week’s podcast takes us backstage with playwright Michele Lowe. Although it’s not easy to make a living in the arts, Lowe has become a successful playwright whose work has been produced [...]

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What Do We Really Know About People Who Get Arts Degrees?

As it turns out, quite a bit. Since 2008, the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) has surveyed graduates of arts training programs…In a few short years, SNAAP has become what is believed to be the largest database ever assembled about the arts and arts education, as well as the most comprehensive alumni survey conducted in any field. Recently, we published our latest findings: A Diverse Palette: What Arts Graduates Say About Their Education and Careers, which has attracted media coverage from [other high profile media outlets and] Forbes, which compares getting an arts degree with getting a law degree—and recommends that prospective law students consider an arts career instead.

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Oregon Shakespeare Festival takes it outside

Enjoy the bard under the moon and stars with three plays slated for the open-air Elizabethan Stage. Here it is mid-June, and we’re already at the midpoint of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival …

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As You Like It

Rosalind/Ganymede (Erica Sullivan) begs Orlando (Wayne T. Carr) to stay in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of As You Like It. Photo by T. Charles Erickson/Oregon Shakespeare Festival Rosalind/Ganymed…

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As You Like It

Charles the Wrestler (Kimberly Scott), with his clowns (Daisuke Tsuji, Jason Rojas) prepares to fight Orlando in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of As You Like It. Photo by T. Charles Erickson/Oregon Shakespeare Fe…

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