Curtain Call: In “Stones,” Ray Porter and Dan Donohue play extras on a Hollywood film set in rural Ireland. They also play 13 other characters, men and women, requiring them to switch gender and voice swiftly and with minimal costume change. The townsfolk are funny, flawed and brimming with hope.
Dan Donohue, an 11-year actor at OSF and on Broadway as anti-hero Scar in the “Lion King,” returns to Ashland next month for Rogue Theater Company’s three-week run of “Stones in His Pockets,” opening July 17.
Curtain Call: Weary of television and commercial work, actor Kevin Kenerly took his partner’s advice to heart: If he loved Shakespeare and microbrews, he should head to Ashland and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Now, in his 28th season at OSF, Kenerly performs as Macbeth in the Scottish Play to rave reviews.
“Spotlight on ABBA” is playing at Camelot through Sunday, May 26. At matinee and evening concerts, four talented Rogue Valley singers perform the Swedish group’s popular songs — timeless music that transcends generations and cultures.
Curtain Call: Playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Thomas Theatre on select dates now through May 12, “Smote This” weaves a web of stories and tangents about an undocumented Black child growing up during a time of racial unrest, an immigration crisis and the drug war.
Rosa Joshi is the dramaturg this year for “Macbeth,” opening March 29 at the Angus Bowmer Theatre, and she will direct “Coriolanus,” opening July 27 at the Thomas Theatre.
OSF Artistic Director Tim Bond: “I’m looking forward to having our spaces come to life within the next couple of months…. I’m ready for the creative energy and spirit that will make all of our 10 productions come to life.”
Lue Douthit: “A typical Shakespeare production follows an odd convention: a contemporary setting with Elizabethan language. What if we flipped that? Contemporary language with an Elizabethan setting.”
Priscilla Quinby joins a stellar cast headed by three Oregon Shakespeare Festival veterans — Louis Lotorto as Hercule Poirot, Michael J. Hume as Dr. Shepherd, and U. Jonathan Toppo as Roger Ackroyd/Inspector Raglan.
This summer Anthony Heald will star with fellow OSF alum Amy Lizardo in Rogue Theater Company’s production of “Heisenberg” at Grizzly Peak Winery.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
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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