Small town near shopping and live theater (Portland, Eugene: houses, university)

[bubbajoerger]

Will be retiring in the next couple of years. I have family in Crescent City, CA and in Grants Pass, OR. We will want to relocate from the Sacramento area to Oregon. We prefer a smaller town, but one that has access to good shopping and live theater somewhere in, near, around or between the aforementioned cities. Suggestions?

[Waterlily]

I'd suggest Coos Bay or North Bend. These cities are side by side. They both have live theater/play houses going on all year.
This is on the coast of Oregon. To find more live theater you'd most likely have to go up to Eugene which not really a small town.

Ah yes there is Ashland too. They have live plays during summer at the college.

[DavePautsch]

Check out Albany.
Pretty good shopping here, close access to everything you need between Salem and Euguene.
We also have a local community theater (just put on the Taming of the Shrew) as well as access to the things going on in Corvallis at the University and at the Hult Center in Eugene.

Dave

[Silverfall]

Ashland has the Shakespeare Festival every year which is nationally reknowned. Otherwise, it will be smaller town theater until you hit Portland which has broadway theater.