Review: “Witch,” isn’t exactly a Halloween piece per se, but it is unsettling. And if you like stories that are distinctive, disturbing yet thought-provoking, this might be for you. This is a play where no one is as they seem; where our motives and desires can give rise to good or evil.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival kicks off its four-day run Thursday, Oct. 3, with the centerpiece film for the festival, ‘Including Us,’ set for its world premiere Saturday. The film, made by local director Brandon Givens, is about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Hairspray: A Broadway Musical” in 2019. The story focuses on four actors with disabilities who starred in the musical, along with the rest of the cast.
Ashland New Plays Festival is unique in its selection process, utilizing a community-based corps of volunteer readers to screen submissions from around the country and beyond. The four plays finally selected will be presented as dramatic readings by local actors Oct. 16-20.
Sage on Stage: In this column, Jessica Sage discusses grappling with the subject of suicide in drama — a theme that delves into the deepest questions that arise from the human experience. The latest RTC production, “Gidion’s Knot,” deals with this tragic theme.
Review: “Scapino!” playing at the Camelot Theatre through Oct. 6, is a little bit crazy, lots of fun and molto divertente! This Scapino, he’s a rogue, a rascal and a master manipulator. He’s quite lovable and all wrapped up in the person of Barret O’Brien, an actor whose adeptness, spryness and agility imbue the jocular character with great appeal.
A golden opportunity paired with serendipitous timing both played a role in bringing Gabriella Calicchio to the Southern Oregon stage for her newest act which, starting in mid-November, will be serving as executive director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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.
The Oregon Cabaret Theatre is pulling out all the stops for its 40th anniversary season with a lineup of entertaining and heartfelt plays and musicals with an additional Anniversary Gala on July 11 and New Year’s Eve show Dec. 31.
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.
Review: When you listen to the retrospective of Jimmy Buffett’s life, now playing as “Spotlight on Jimmy Buffett” at the Camelot Theatre, you are reminded of several things: the number of compositions the singer-songwriter created over his 50-year career, his sense of humor and easygoing persona and the wonderful, relatable lyrics and melodies that became spring break anthems in so many people’s lives.
A staff recommendation to demolish instead of repair the Community Center will we discussed at the Ashland City Council study session meeting Monday, while the council business meeting Tuesday will include a review of funding for the water treatment plant.
Pam Hammond beamed earlier this week while talking about new plans in store for downtown Ashland’s Paddington Station sister stores, The Jewel Box and Inspired By Oregon, which are consolidating and moving into the prominent Fortmiller building across the street.
Ashland councilors Gina DuQuenne and Dylan Bloom on Wednesday gave Southern Oregon University students a lesson in how to express mutual admiration even while disagreeing. The councilors met with 15 students at Britt Hall to discuss voting, Ashland-centered topics and how to bridge the communication gap between the SOU campus and Ashland.
Review: “Witch,” isn’t exactly a Halloween piece per se, but it is unsettling. And if you like stories that are distinctive, disturbing yet thought-provoking, this might be for you. This is a play where no one is as they seem; where our motives and desires can give rise to good or evil.
Bob Palermini, professional photographer, will give a presentation about photojournalism at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting on October 15 in Medford. He studied photojournalism in college and has been a photographer for Ashland.news since shortly after it debuted in January 2022.
Herbert Rothschild: It would be stunning if the presidential candidates were asked during a debate whether they are disturbed by the prospect of leaving office with blood on their hands.
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