Entertainment

Two Ashland writer-producers are beginning interviews for “The Man Behind the Music,” a documentary on the life and work of Henry Lewy, a sound engineer who encouraged and brought out the creative best from the greats of the '60s and '70s,…

"Green Light Trilogy" is a highly entertaining, lighthearted and apolitical exploration of some of the realities gays face in today's rapidly changing world. The trio of short plays, written by former Ashlanders L.N. Saleh and Tom Lipski…

Ashland Contemporary Theatre's current production of Tom Dudzik's comedy "Greetings," now playing at the Ashland Community Center, features Levi Anderson as Andy Gorsky, a young man who brings his fiancée home to meet his family only to…

Playwright Tom Dudzick's funny and serious 1990 play "Greetings" shows us what can happen when a working-class, religious family finds itself at odds with ideas that are independent of tradition. When Andy Gorski brings his freethinking…

"Walking the Camino" is extraordinary. Who knew that there was a 500-mile trail, known as the Camino de Santiago, that begins just across the border in France, at St. Pied de Port, and stretches westward, across northern Spain, to the city…

Only the superlative "cheer-tastic" can adequately describe the infectious excitement that cheerleaders bring to a game. It's also a perfect word for the giddy feeling of joy and inspiration I get watching someone cast aside all traces of…

You don't have to quit your job, put off having children or wait until retirement to be a writer, according to Ashland author, editor and writing instructor Midge Raymond. In her newly released book "Everyday Writing: Tips and Prompts to…

What would happen if Euripides, Shakespeare and Rodgers and Hammerstein all met on a single stage? It's a question Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch answers with the experimental play "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella." The…

By Roberta Kent For the Tidings  Posted: 2:00 AM April 04, 2012 "Troilus and Cressida," the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's latest offering in the New Theatre, gives us Shakespeare in a dark and reflexive mode. In this fascinating…

Tango has seized Ashland. Every day of the week, couples are locked in a tango embrace, directed by subtle cues and guided by the music. Beginners are in workout gear, the more experienced in flirty clothing, but everyone is invited onto…