Dorothy Velasco
Theater ReviewerDorothy Velasco has reviewed productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for KLCC since 1985.
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Larissa FastHorse is a prolific Native American playwright whose works are produced throughout the country. But when some theaters complained they didn’t…
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Sinclair Lewis, the first American to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, wrote his shocking dystopian novel, “It Can’t Happen Here,” in 1935. The next…
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I’d better say it right away. “Between Two Knees,” now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is not about sex. The two knees referred to are two…
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If you speak any Spanish you can have fun with “La Comedia of Errors,” Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s bilingual adaptation of Shakespeare’s early comedy.…
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A perceptive production of “All’s Well that Ends Well” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival shows how deeply Shakespeare understood women, often portraying…
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“Indecent,” Paula Vogel’s highly acclaimed drama, has now opened at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which co-commissioned the work but allowed many other…
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“As You Like It” is one of my favorite comedies by Shakespeare. The new production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, directed by Rosa Joshi, offers much…
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“Hairspray,” now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is bound to be a hit for young and old. It’s a bright, bouncy, warm-hearted musical that’s…
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“Mother Road,” by Octavio Solis, is an intriguing new drama at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As directed by Bill Rauch, the tale of hard luck and hope…
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Before I recently went to the spring opening of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, I had never seen a play about a Cambodian rock band. I had…