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Ashland, Oregon

April 2013

Ashland is home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest Shakespeare festivals in the USA. Here is a link to the festival web site: http://www.osfashland.org/

Plays of the 2013 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season

The Elizabethan Theatre has an outdoor stage and is modeled after the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's time

The Elizabethan Theatre

The Bowmer Theatre is the largest venue at the Festival

A reflection of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Members Lounge in the windows of the Bowmer Theatre lobby

The Thomas Theatre is a small 'black box' theatre providing an intimate setting for playgoers to be close to (and sometimes in) the action

The Thomas Theatre

A view toward downtown Ashland from the near the Oregon Shakespeare Festival theatres

A view up East Main Street, one of two main streets in downtown Ashland

Lithia Park begins in downtown Ashland and straddles Lithia Creek as it flows through town from the Siskiyou Mountains to the west

The Bowmer and Elizabethan Theatres sit on the hill to the south of Lithia Park

A duck pond in Lithia Park