Ashland is home to the award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival which produces 11 plays in repertory each year written by William Shakespeare and other playwrights. The season begins mid-February and runs through the end of October.

With three stages, this year's Shakespeare Festival looks especially exciting for 2009. The playbill includes 11 plays on 3 stages:

• Macbeth
• Death and the King's Horseman
• The Music Man
• Equivocation
• Paradise Lost
• Dead Man's Cell Phone
• The Servant of Two Masters
• All's Well that Ends Well
• Henry VIII
• Don Quixote
• Much Ado About Nothing

Check Availability for the play you wish to watch.

2009 Illuminations has previews of all the plays for purchase.

Ashland is perfectly situated in the heart of Southern Oregon not far from historic Jacksonville and Crater Lake National Park.

Downtown Ashland features boutique shopping, fine dining, art galleries, and the Oregon Cabaret Theater. Just south of the downtown Plaza is 100-acre Lithia Park, a wonderful place to hike and relax.

Local Ashland activities abound, including:

• boating
• World-Class White Water Rafting
• hiking
• biking
• world-class golf courses
• guided fishing
• horseback riding
• local wine-tasting
• Oregon Caves & much more!

Winter turns downtown Ashland into a holiday wonderland with the annual Festival of Lights. Downhill skiing is available at nearby Mount Ashland with cross-country trails in the nearby National Forest lands.