Live Entertainment in Ashland

Ashland is one of America's most extraordinary small-town performing arts destinations — a Southern Oregon community where the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Ashland Independent Film Festival, and dozens of independent performing arts organizations create a cultural infrastructure rivaling cities 10 times its size. Ashland's extraordinary natural setting in the Siskiyou Mountains and its remarkable concentration of performing artists and theater professionals create a community defined by its commitment to the performing arts.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival is the largest Shakespeare festival in America — an Ashland theater company producing 11 plays per season (not all Shakespeare) in three venues and presenting some of the finest professional theater in the United States. Its extraordinary 87-year history, its three performance spaces (including the remarkable outdoor Elizabethan Stage), and its role in establishing Ashland as one of America's premier theater destinations create a performing arts institution of national importance.