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New Works by Tanya Saracho, Naomi Wallace Part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 Season

Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace

Artistic Director Bill Rauch has announced the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 season, to run February 15-November 3.

Productions in the Angus Bowmer Theatre will include Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, directed by David Ivers; the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady, directed by Amanda Dehnert; August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, directed by Lou Bellamy; Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Christopher Liam Moore; and the world premiere of Tanya Saracho’s Dreams of the Muse.

In the festival’s New Theatre, productions will include Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Rauch; the world premiere musical The Unfortunates, featuring book, music, and lyrics by 3 Blind Mice (Jon Beavers, Ian Merrigan, Ramiz Monsef) and Casey Hurt, and directed by Shana Cooper; and the world premiere of Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.

The Elizabethan Stage will feature Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, directed by Rauch; David Farr’s The Heart of Robin Hood, directed by Joel Sass; and Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Christopher Liam Moore.

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