Curtain Call: Virginia Carol Hudson develops a unique attachment to her clients, but especially the women who lose their hair from chemotherapy after a cancer diagnosis. As they struggle with their treatments while balancing family and work life responsibilities, she helps them achieve some sense of normality by creating and designing beautiful, natural-looking wigs for them.
Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University has launched an ambitious season of plays and concerts for the winter and spring terms in celebration of the university’s 150th anniversary.
How can something that goes so wrong be so right? That’s the intention in “The Play That Goes Wrong,” the opening play for the 2023 season at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland. What makes the play amazing and uproariously fun is the googolplex litany of wrong things.
Curtain Call: “When all is said and done, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Resident Fight Director U. Jonathan Toppo has one overriding goal: Try not to kill the actors. In 30 seasons on the job, he has a perfect record.”
On the heels of a banner year with nearly every 2022 performance sold out, Rogue Theater Company’s 2023 season will feature extended runs, more talk-backs, and casts headlined by Oregon Shakespeare Festival luminaries.
Building on the success of 2022, the Rogue Theater Company will extend runs of plays this year, with five shows a week for three-week runs. The four-show season kicks off Feb. 22.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett talks with Ashland.news about juggling dual roles as both interim executive director and artistic director, the start of rehearsals for the 2023 season in six weeks, and adoption of a “Restructure, Reframe, Revitalize (3Rs) Strategy” for OSF over the next year or two.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival is starting the new year by announcing a shift in management, a dozen layoffs, seven employee furloughs, and halting or delay of filling 18 open positions.
Two of the six new plays that will be offered this year by the Ashland New Plays Festival will be performed in March and April in advance of the traditional fall season. New works by Lisa Loomer and Carlos-Zenen Trujillo will be given workshop readings at the Southern Oregon University Main Stage Theatre.
The JPR Foundation restoration of the historic Holly Theatre is underway again after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. A number of Ashland connections are helping make the project possible.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced Monday the nonprofit’s six on-screen film lineup as a documentary showcase coming April 14-20 to the Varsity Theatre. Each Varsity feature will be paired with a short documentary directed by a local filmmaker.
Oregon drivers who for decades have been banned from touching gas pumps could soon have the right to fuel their own cars, under a bill the state House overwhelmingly approved Monday.
After announcing last week that the ski-snowboarding area broken its all-time season attendance record, Mt. Ashland Ski Area managers announced Sunday that its season has been extended to April 23, adding two weekends on to a schedule that typically would have ended on April 9.
During a visit to Central Point Sunday, Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announced $21 million was on its way to Oregon to help reduce the risk of wildfires. Joining her were U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and Mike Shaw, chief of fire protection at ODF.
A procession celebrating spring wound its way from the ice rink on Winburn Way to the Ashland Plaza on Saturday afternoon, drawing an estimated 150 participants with a like number of spectators.
Reader photos: Carlyle Stout of Ashland took these photos in Lithia Park after the last storm on March 1.
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