Review: The play’s staging and script is rich with careful detail. But it’s the performances of its real-life actors that make “Circle Mirror Transformation” interesting and provocative.
William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “Much Ado About Nothing” are among nine plays planned for the 2024 season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, the company announced today. The 89th season, which will also include three “Shakespeare-adjacent” plays, kicks off March 19 and runs through Sept. 15, 2024.
Priscilla Quinby joins a stellar cast headed by three Oregon Shakespeare Festival veterans — Louis Lotorto as Hercule Poirot, Michael J. Hume as Dr. Shepherd, and U. Jonathan Toppo as Roger Ackroyd/Inspector Raglan.
Detective Hercule Poirot returns to the Cabaret stage in the Oregon Cabaret Theatre’s fall mystery, “Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” which opens Friday, Sept. 15.
In a collaboration that speaks volumes about Ashland’s community spirit, Rogue Valley Symphony will present two new pops concerts under the direction of conductor Martin Majkut at Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Angus Bowmer Theatre. Home for the Holidays, a pops concert, will be performed on the historic OSF stage this Dec. 15-16-17; and a Valentine’s Day pops concert will be presented on, yes, Feb. 14.
Not quite a week into his new job as artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Tim Bond settled into a seat in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre and spoke with Ashland.news for the better part of an hour about his artistic vision going forward, what he’s been up to since starting the job on Sept. 1, what audiences can expect next season, and more.
After an August that included some play cancellations due to smoke and COVID-19, Oregon Shakespeare Festival had cause for celebration on Friday, kicking off a new month by welcoming Tim Bond to his first official day on staff as OSF’s artistic director and announcing a $2 million gift toward producing the 2024 season.
‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ opens Sept. 13 at Grizzly Peak Winery. The play features a cast of veteran Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors playing five very different people, brought together in a Vermont small-town community center for a theater workshop, who learn more about themselves and one another than they do about acting.
The smoke that rolled into Ashland heavily on Thursday canceled one Oregon Shakespeare Festival play that night, according to Tyler Hokama, interim executive director of OSF, in an interview with Ashland.news on Friday afternoon. Hokama and the organization will continue to monitor the smoke in coming days and weeks. He hopes the impacts are small and short-lived.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced on social media platforms on Wednesday afternoon that multiple performances have been canceled this week due to COVID-19 cases among its performing and understudy company.
Obituary: Margaret McCartney died Dec. 4 at 83. Memorial services are planned for 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 11, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 N. 2nd St., Ashland.
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has announced plans to offer free opioid overdose reversal kits to middle and high schools throughout the state. Ashland Superintendent Samuel Bogdanove shared his support for the increase in availability of Narcan, the brand name for a device that delivers naloxone, to Oregon schools, including in Ashland.
With local rescue groups still overflowing with cats and kittens, those wishing to bring home a new family member for the holidays will have opportunities to do so on two upcoming December weekends. On Saturday, Dec. 9, Ashland-based Friends of the Animals (formerly Friends of the Animal Shelter) will partner with Feral Cat Advocacy (FCA), Melly Cat Rescue, and Hero Tails Animal Sanctuary for a Feline Fair at the Rogue Valley Mall.
Dozens of area residents ushered in a spirited first night of Hanukkah on Thursday, gathering on the Ashland Plaza late Thursday afternoon to light the first flames on the menorah.
Charles “Al” Huth: We can expand our potential to build true knowledge by altering what we spend time focusing on in our daily lives. In short, search for the Truth.
Herbert Rothschild: Apparently, Kissinger insisted on recording practically every word he said. His aides later commented that he needed to keep track of which lie he told to whom.
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