Curtain Call: Abigail Mace is the artistic director and conductor of Jefferson Baroque Orchestra, a position she assumed last March. Jefferson Baroque’s upcoming concerts will be December performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” a beloved holiday tradition.
Curtain Call: Amirah David was 8 years old when she landed her first professional gig in “The Magic Stone, the Musical” at Actors’ Theatre in Talent, later rebranded as Camelot Theatre. Thirty years later she’s back on the Camelot stage as Maria in “The Sound of Music.” The iconic musical opens Nov. 20 and will run through Dec. 31.
Curtain Call: Terry Longshore’s “Full Circle: Turtle Wisdom” will bring artist Betty LaDuke’s vibrant “Turtle Wisdom” series to life through the resonant sounds of a gong orchestra on Nov. 8 at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum. Performers will include Terry Longshore, the SOU Percussion Ensemble and students of Longshore’s SOU Honors College course, Making Music.
Even before completing her season on Oct. 12 as Lady Macbeth in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 production of “Macbeth,” Erica Sullivan was in rehearsal for Rogue Theater Company’s “Gidion’s Knot,” in which she plays a mother coping with grief over the suicide of her 11-year-old son.
Curtain Call: “The Heart’s Reflection,” a concert spanning 500 years and seven languages, seems to pose the question: In a world of division, what is it that unites us as human beings?
Curtain Call: Barret O’Brien plays the titular role of Scapino a valet who contrives to bring his master’s children and their various loves together through all kinds of trickery, despite his master’s own plans for them, in “Scapino!,” a French comedy opening Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Camelot Theatre in Talent.
Shakespeare enthusiasts will have a rare opportunity to dive deep into the worlds of “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Macbeth” with Barry Kraft Sept. 14-15 in Ashland.
Curtain Call: Had it not been for a Maltipoo named Ollie — and a conductor named Martin — Liane Alitowski may never have decided to make Ashland her new home. The longtime performer, educator and writer became captivated by Ashland’s charms during a visit last year. Now she is a pianist for the Rogue Valley Symphony.
Jennie Greenberry: “Jane (Eyre) is the kind of person I deeply admire and strive to be. So, of course I jumped at the chance to portray her.”
Curtain Call: The Rogue Vally Symphony will launch its own blockbuster, “Hollywood’s Greatest Hits,” at 7:30 pm. Friday, Aug. 23 and at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24 and 25. All three summer pops concerts will be performed at Medford’s Craterian Theater.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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