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Season Subscription 2018-19

One low price for all four shows in the season, including special reserved seats for Cinderella in our Box and Orchestra sections.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
By Ntozake Shange
Directed by: Elizabeth Carter
Dates: September 15th 29th
Location: Taube Atrium Theater
This much-revered play from 1976 tells the stories of 7 individual women capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic arcs of their lives. Ntozake Shanges For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry, and was nominated for a Tony Award.

Cinderella
Directed by: Mark Allen Davis
Dates: December 21st 23rd
Location: Herbst Theatre
This beloved annual holiday treatwhich has sold out each of the past 3 yearsis a timeless tale, brought to whimsical, magical life is an uplifting re-telling of the classic fairytale, featuring all of the pageantry, hilarity, and charm of the original, but with a soulful twist.

Black Eagles
by Leslie Lee
Directed by: L. Peter Callender
Dates: March 16th March 31st
Location: Marines Memorial Theatre
The African-American Shakespeare Company returns to the Marines Memorial for this extraordinary drama about the Tuskegee airmen, America's first black fighter pilots opens at a reception honoring the airmen and Gen. Colin Powell. As the now-elderly WWII pilots reminisce, their younger selves join them, which serves as the basis for the story of this brave company to be retold.

Macbeth
By William Shakespeare, in a modern verse translation by Migdalia Cruz
Directed by: TBA
Location: Taube Atrium Theater
Dates: July 13th July 28th
An evil prophecy to be king drives Macbeth and his wife to make the vision a reality, as a tortuous series of events escalates into one of the most notorious good-man-driven-bad plays in theater history; Macbeth is a modern translated version adapted by Migdalia Cruz.

This production of Macbeth was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festivals Play On! Series through a generous contribution from the Hitz Foundation

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