As the fifth anniversary of the Almeda and South Obenchain fires approaches, Rogue Action Center will host a two-day community story-sharing event for those affected by the 2020 fires from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, and Friday, Aug. 22, at the Talent Community Center.
After fulfilling a long-held dream of leading sales and marketing reins at a regional theater by serving in upper sales and marketing management at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the past three years, Javier “Javi” Dubon’s appointment by OSF’s Board of Directors to interim executive director on June 23 launched him into an expanded role and then some as he became the sixth person in less than seven years to take on responsibility for operations, finance, IT and human resources and more.
Musicals, tributes to musical icons, and dynamic plays with strong female characters top Camelot Theatre’s 2026 season.
Lucie K. Scheuer: The production of “Quixote Nuevo” — based on a 500-year-old story — fits with today’s cultural milieu. It is like striking gold. Great art can reach across centuries if you can provide a believable context.
Sage on Stage: This is part one of actors’ experiences working as an ensemble, what makes it fun, what makes it fly, and what it does for the audience as well as the actors themselves.
Lucie K. Scheuer: Audiences love “Guys and Dolls” because of its love story with eccentric and lovable characters.
Lucie K. Scheuer: “Ripcord,” a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Lindsay-Abaire, about two older women sharing a room in a New Jersey retirement home, is one of those plays (that make you think).
“The Merry Wives of Windsor” by William Shakespeare has opened in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre at OSF, replete with a biker gang, a dance club, a rubber chicken, a deer antler hat and about as much chicanery as in the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” only it’s more comedy than drama.
Rick Wasserman has spent much of the past 30 years behind a mic as a voice-over artist. Known for his distinctive deep voice, his best-known roles include Thor and Hulk for Marvel Animation.
The Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) has announced the winning playwrights for this year’s annual Fall Festival.
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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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