Seventy years of Shakespeare has changed Ashland

By RON COWAN,June 19, 2005

This season, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its 70th year. Friday night it opened its outdoor season with Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," a play first staged here 70 years ago.

"Twelfth Night" also is the most produced play at the festival by the Bard, this being its 15th production.