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Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland). The group was founded in 1935 by Angus L. Bowmer, whose original intention was to present the complete canon of Shakespeare's plays over a series of summer seasons. By 1958 it had performed the complete works of Shakespeare, and by 1978 the cycle had been repeated. Except for a shutdown during World War II, the festival has operated continually since its inception and enlarged both its vision and its program. It now operates three theatres, the 1,200‐seat, open‐air Elizabethan, the 600‐seat Bowmer, and the flexi‐ble New Theatre. While nearly half its repertory remains Shakespearean, its programs today include the full range of classic drama as well as new plays of interest, offered during a season that generally runs from February through October. Since 1988 the group performs in late fall and during the winter at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Bowmer later wrote a history of the festival, As I Remember, Adam (1975). In 1983 the group received the regional theatre Tony Award.

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