The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is in Ashland, Ore., off Interstate 5 near Medford, Ore. Here are the remaining 2005 shows, which run in rep through October. For a calendar, tickets and information: www.osfashland.org or 541-482-4331.

Elizabethan Amphitheater

"The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus." A rare Northwest staging of the poetic Christopher Marlowe classic. Plays through Oct. 7. (See review)

"Twelfth Night." Shakespeare's full-house, gender-jumping romp is broadly staged in Elizabethan dress by Peter Amster, in a production covering all the bases, but adding little in the way of comic nuance or bittersweet insight. Through Oct. 9.

"Love's Labor's Lost." Several young nobles chuck their vows of celibacy after some foxy French damsels drop by their kingdom, in Shakespeare's romantic satire of high-minded pedantry. Elegantly costumed, Kenneth Albers' mounting of the largely uncut text (lengthy Latin quotations, et al) is prone to tedium until the mating games kick in. Through Oct. 8.

Angus Bowmer Theatre (indoors)

"Richard III." James Newcomb makes a fine, sneering Richard, in Shakespeare's gripping trajectory of a demon king's rise and fall, directed by Libby Appel. Through Oct. 30.

"Room Service." The backstage 1938 Broadway farce (later made into a Marx Brothers film) gets a diligently energetic staging, but this long, creaky comic vehicle never gets into high gear. Through Oct. 29

"Napoli Milionaria!" A new English translation of beloved Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo's 1945 study of a Naples family, struggling through World War II. Through Oct. 30.

"The Belle's Stratagem." A rare, intriguing resurrection of British author Hannah Cowley's hit 18th-century comedy of manners, touted by OSF as " 'Sex and the City' for the 1780s." Through Oct. 29.

New Theatre (Indoors)

"Gibraltar." An absorbing, if occasionally heavy-handed, new work by Octavio Solis, about the destructive and affirming nature of romantic passion. Through Oct. 30. (See review)

"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." August Wilson's watershed drama taps the earthy humor and explosive tensions that arise at a 1920s blues recording session. OSF's well-received version is directed by Timothy Bond, former head of Seattle's Group Theatre. Through Oct. 30.

Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic