Meet Oregon Shakespeare Festival´s new artistic director, Nataki Garrett
(WorldNews Entertainment)

This August, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland gets its sixth artistic director in 84 years as Nataki Garrett takes over the role that Bill Rauch has had for 12 years. Audiences won´t have to wait long for a sense of Garrett´s style: She´s directing Christina Anderson´s `How to Catch Creation,` which opens July 23. She´ll also direct next season´s world premiere of Dominique Morrisseau´s `Confederates,` the latest installment in the festival´s American Revolutions series about key shifts in U.S. history. And she helped `refine` the festival´s 2020 season, for which planning got underway last year, according to Rauch. For Garrett, 47, the job in Ashland represents a homecoming of...