Jessica Sage: Actors who direct know that an actor’s most crucial role onstage is to reveal a truth to the audience. Directing allows for a more significant role in shaping the overall creative vision of a project, and it challenges artistic boundaries.
Sage on Stage: The play’s the thing — the things, really — that make up a theatrical season. How does one go about picking those plays? Oh, and what’s a “gadfly”?
Sage on Stage: In which we find out what both Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Bernhardt might have to do with the “break a leg” saying — and tricks actors use to memorize lengthy scripts.
Sage on Stage: Can you hear me now? What to do when you can’t hear an actor — plus, what are some of the many stage-related superstitions?
Sage on Stage: What makes a bad actor? This question makes me both giggle and wince as I recall moments of bad acting. The worst offense, in my opinion? When actors don’t enunciate or project their voices.
Sage on Stage: This month, Rogue Theater Company Artistic Director Jessica Sage discusses the qualities a great actor needs to enthrall an audience.
Sage on Stage: This month, Jessica Sage discusses qualities of a great theater director, and the difference between acting in film and acting on stage.
Sage on Stage: Jessica Sage, artistic director of the Rogue Theater Company, gets into the nitty gritty of theatrical production … and more.
Meet Jessica Sage, drama teacher, actor, playwright, artistic director of Rogue Theater Company and the newest columnist for Ashland.news.
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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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