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With triple talent in acting, singing and dance, Presila Quinby in 1978 arrived in Ashland, performed with Oregon Shakespeare Festival and started up PJQ, a locally famous quartet with her brother Jim Quinby and lover Paul Jenny — then in…

Every classic play was a new play at one point in time, says Ashland New Plays Festival’s executive director Kyle Haden. “Think of how exciting it must have been for that first audience to see ‘Hamlet’ or August Wilson’s ‘Piano Lesson’…

Hazardous smoke from wildfires has cost the Oregon Shakespeare Festival about $2 million in losses so far and has prompted the festival to cancel its free, outdoor Green Show performances for the rest of the season. The Green Show,…

Arwen Curry is a filmmaker on a serious mission. She has long been a researcher and fan of Ursula K. Le Guin, the Portland-based and globally respected fantasy and science fiction novelist (although she preferred to be called a novelist)…

Actor-director Barret O’Brien is taking a year off the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to take action against climate change — “the biggest challenge ever to face humanity” — and the result is his play “Water Made to Rise,” an ironic and pithy…

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “Snow in Midsummer” is a masterpiece. That’s not surprising. Cowhig, an internationally based playwright whose work has been staged on the West End, the Goodman Theatre, and at the Royal Shakespeare Company, among…

Ashland New Plays Festival will present four playwrights’ new works at its 27th annual festival from Oct. 17–21 at the Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth St., in Ashland. The winners are: • Ian August for “The Excavation of Mary Anning.”…

Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) will present a dramatic reading of Scott Kaiser's play "Now This" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 23, in the Great Hall at the Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth St. in Ashland. Kaiser is in his 26th season at the Oregon…

ASHLAND — The Schneider Museum of Art is transformed into four separate galleries with art ranging from minimalist to lush for exhibits that will continue through Sept. 9. An opening reception for the exhibits and artists will be held…

By Laurie Heuston Revels Posted Apr 9, 2018 at 7:43 AM Ashland Independent Film Festival’s director Richard Herskowitz believes that filmmakers’ exposure to classic films inspires them to question and reinvent filmmaking conventions, he…