The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced its 2025 season, featuring nine shows including Shakespearean works, reimagined classics and more.

Angus Bowmer founded the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1935 with the singular mission of bringing transformative, world-class theatre to Southern Oregon. In 2025, OSF will celebrate 90 years of that dream with nine shows including Shakespearean works, reimagined classics, a powerful play from August Wilson’s canon, and the highly anticipated production of “Into the Woods,” inspired by OSF’s 2014 smash hit.

“Each of these selections offers a captivating taste of adventure, redemption and insight into the human condition,” the festival said in a release Tuesday. Read on to find out about all nine of the 2025 shows, and get ready to order tickets starting this fall.

‘Julius Caesar’

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Rosa Joshi, produced in association with upstart crow collective

March 7-Oct. 26, 2025, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre

Julius Caesar returns to the heart of Rome victorious from war. But as he ascends to power, Brutus and the conspiring Cassius join forces to murder Caesar and save the great city from a dangerous dictator. In Shakespeare’s famed political thriller, upheaval begets more upheaval and traitorous actions threaten the very stability of Rome. Known for their dynamic, physical storytelling, upstart crow collective returns with an all-female and nonbinary cast, which, under the direction of Associate Artistic Director Rosa Joshi, illuminates this tale’s ancient themes of power, loyalty and betrayal.

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’

By Oscar Wilde

Directed by Desdemona Chiang

March 8-Oct. 25, 2025, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre

Director Desdemona Chiang transports Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners to the British Malay Peninsula, a colonial melting pot of South Asian, Chinese and English communities. Two rakish young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, opt to navigate Victorian-era expectations of courtship simply by evading them. But when their personas and egos begin to collide, the pair get caught up in a wit-fueled whirlwind of mistaken identities and romantic snafus. This “trivial comedy for serious people” reveals the absurd lengths that humans will go to in pursuit of acceptance, love, and truth.

‘Jitney’ 

By August Wilson

Directed by Tim Bond

March 9-July 20, 2025, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre

In 1977, as licensed cabs refuse to service Pittsburgh’s predominantly Black “Hill District,” a group of Black men run an unlicensed taxi company — a “jitney.” But when the city threatens to shut down the business and owner Jim Becker’s disgraced son returns after a 20-year prison sentence, potent secrets are revealed and the fragile threads binding these people together may come undone at last. For his first production since being named OSF’s Artistic Director, Tim Bond directs August Wilson’s masterwork. Overflowing with the auteur’s signature poetry and hilarious banter, “Jitney” promises to be an unforgettable celebration of community, family bonds and the endurance of the human spirit.

‘Shane’

By Karen Zacarías, adapted from the novel by Jack Schaefer

Directed by Blake Robison

July 31-Oct. 25, 2025, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre

West Coast Premiere

Ranchers, farmers, a looming range war and a mysterious stranger with a violent past — for good reason, “Shane” is a classic Western. But when the novel debuted in 1947, what set it apart was its unusual moral center — a young boy seeing the tale through his own clear eyes. And now this culturally authentic adaptation by Karen Zacarías (“Destiny of Desire,” “The Copper Children”) holds on to the heart of its literary source while widening the lens to encompass the real Wyoming of 1889, challenging what we think we know about the American West — its people, values, myths, heroes — and our own perceptions of good and evil.

‘Fat Ham’

By James Ijames

Directed by Elizabeth Carter

March 11-June 27, 2025, in the Thomas Theatre

In James Ijames’s sizzling cookout comedy, the grill isn’t the only thing turning up the heat. This deliciously funny play follows Juicy, a queer Black kid living in the South. When the ghost of his dead father appears at a family BBQ demanding revenge for his murder, Juicy must grapple with the decision to heed his phantom father’s advice or remain true to himself. The 2022 Pulitzer Prize–winning riff on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is directed by Elizabeth Carter, the 2021 SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artist and the assistant director of OSF’s 2022 production of August Wilson’s “How I Learned What I Learned.”

‘As You Like It’

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Lisa Peterson

April 16-Oct. 25, 2025, in the Thomas Theatre

The Forest of Arden comes to life in the Thomas Theatre when Rosalind and her cousin Celia escape an oppressive uncle and take to the wilderness. Disguised as a man, Rosalind searches for her true love, Orlando — who doesn’t recognize her in her new persona. But anything can happen in the forest, including poems in the trees, star-crossed shepherds and a band of exiles who become family. Identities are lost and true selves are found in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, bringing its magic to this song-filled, 1960s-infused production by director Lisa Peterson (“Hamlet,” 2016).

‘Quixote Nuevo’

By Octavio Solis

Directed by Lisa Portes

July 9-Oct. 24, 2025, in the Thomas Theatre

In the fictional border town of La Plancha, Texas, a brilliant professor is battling dementia — but he won’t go into assisted living without a fight. Imagining himself as Don Quixote, he enlists a friend and sets out on a journey to find his long-lost love, tilting at border patrol drones as he uncovers the truth of his past. This modern comic adaptation by OSF favorite Octavio Solis (“Mother Road” and 2009’s “Don Quixote,” among others) infuses Tejano culture and vibrant music into a story that Broadway World described as “groundbreaking and new while still retaining the heart of the original” — a magical retelling that celebrates life, love and human courage.

‘The Merry Wives of Windsor ’

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Terri McMahon

May 30-Oct. 12, 2025, in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre

Sir John Falstaff — Prince Hal’s boisterous drinking buddy from the “Henry IV” plays — has come down in the world, out of money and stuck in the middle-class burg of Windsor. Hatching a plot to hit on two wealthy married women, he’s soon ensnared in love triangles and trickery, and he hasn’t even figured out that his prey are now deceiving him. Food, dancing and dirty laundry are all part of the fun in Shakespeare’s most domestic comedy — and part of what makes this small town a home. OSF welcome’s back longtime company member Terri McMahon, who directs this new production with a joyful, dance-filled flair.

‘Into the Woods’

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by James Lapine

Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Directed by Amanda Dehnert, presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International

May 31-Oct. 11, 2025, in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre

How far would you go to make your wish come true? Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (of beanstalk fame) and a baker and his wife find out when they take a journey into the woods. It’s a magical, bewildering place full of witches, wolves, giants and mysterious strangers, where familiar fairy tales tangle and twist together. Wishes come true here, but at a price. Director Amanda Dehnert’s production of this smash-hit musical thrilled audiences in 2014, and OSF is bringing its hilarity, menace, irreverence — and eminently singable score — back to their theatre under the stars, where it will delight audiences of all ages.