Oregon Shakespeare Festival Executive Director Gabriella Calicchio is on leave and will soon officially step down from a leadership role she just assumed in November, according to an email sent by OSF to major donors Thursday.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival bricks in Ashland came alive Friday evening as the Green Show officially kicked off its 2025 season with a performance on stage and in the air by students from Ashland Aerial Arts. The Green Show happens daily, Tuesday through Saturday, from June 13 to Sept. 27.
You might say that domestic, comedic dramatist and playwright Del Shores’ successful life as a writer for stage, film and TV is the result of a series of crazy mishaps, which led to Shores becoming one of America’s funniest theater writers and strongest advocates for emerging LGBTQ+ writers.
Ashland-based Cafe-Girl Thriving Artists is producing a benefit show, “Celebrate Art, Celebrate Life,” for the Barnstormers Theatre at 112 NE Evelyn Ave., Grants Pass, on Friday, June 20.
Lyudmila Sokol smiled with something like mischief as she stepped inside the door of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s costume production area.
With just over a week left in the school year, Bellview Elementary students were treated Thursday to an out-of-this-world performance of “Alien, the Musical”—a quirky and creative production put on annually by the school’s fifth-grade class.
“Unreal!” is a new devised performance created by the Empowered Arts Ensemble, empoweredartsensemble.org. Performances are at 5 p.m. June 6 and 7 p.m. June 7 at the Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road.
From enchanted forests and 9/11 airport runways to Pittsburgh backyards and Shakespearean battlegrounds, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s newly announced 2026 season delivers 10 powerful productions that span centuries and genres — each exploring what it means to rise, connect and move forward in uncertain times.
Putting aside the fact for a moment that playwright Tennessee Williams was a master at capturing dysfunctional family dynamics, it is also important for us to remember why his plays are so gut-wrenchingly powerful.
There are several “Into the Woods”-type sequences in Shakespeare plays. Forests where his characters (often ostracized or a threat to the aristocracy) go to escape the vindictive wraths of ruthless leaders or plot against them.
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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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