The Play's the Thing in Ashland, Ore.

 

Published: March 19, 2011

By Maura Daly Phinney

You know you're in a theater town when the teenager working in the sporting goods store greets you with, "So, what have you seen?" And when you respond, "Hamlet," he proceeds to grill you on what you thought of Ophelia's death scene in Act 2.

This happened to me everywhere I went in Ashland during a three-day visit. Ashland is the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and "W...


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