Oregon Shakespeare Festival on Tuesday announced a recent donation of $250,000 by Sid and Karen DeBoer. The longtime Ashland couple is challenging other donors, past and present, to join them in helping the Ashland-based theater.
This year’s $1.1 billion end-of-session bill, known as a Christmas tree bill and passed in June by the Oregon Legislature, contained grants for three relatively small entertainment venues in Jackson County but offered nothing for the larger Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
After starting the season uncertain of its financial future, Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced this week that funding — approximately $10 million — is in place to make it through to the end of the 2023 season.
Review: The universal appeal of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is evident. It presents an archetypical love affair so timeless it seems to unravel the very DNA of our souls. Two lovers at the apex of their youth — innocent, exuberant and determined — are suddenly struck down by fate and the cruel iniquities of life.
The Ashland New Plays Festival has announced the four winners whose works will be featured in the 2023 Fall Festival. The four winning playwrights will be invited to Ashland this fall for a week of play readings, development, and community gatherings.
Review: What happens if you take a late 1980s rock opera based on Puccini’s 1890s “La Boehme,” focus it on the gritty but artistic counterculture of New York’s Lower East Side during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and plunk it onto Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Angus Bowmer Theatre stage in Ashland in 2023? Magic. That’s what happens.
Review: It’s been said that all the world’s a stage. At the Rogue Theater, on a stage no larger than a boxing arena, the world revolves around two divergent characters and how their worlds take on unexpected trajectories in the play, “Heisenberg.”
In an in-depth interview with Ashland.news, incoming Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Tim Bond talks about how and why he got hooked on theater, how Shakespeare fits into OSF programming, and how telling “the human story is what we do.”
Meet Jessica Sage, drama teacher, actor, playwright, artistic director of Rogue Theater Company and the newest columnist for Ashland.news.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced Thursday afternoon it has selected former OSF assistant artistic director Tim Bond as artistic director for the festival, effective Sept. 1.
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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