Daily Tidings Editorial Board

I wouldn’t have liked to earn my living in public relations. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with the occupation. Still, I think I would have foundered on moral dilemmas. For example, I wouldn’t have wanted to work on the PR…

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’…

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)…

I got a call three weeks ago telling me that my father was in the hospital with pneumonia. He is 92 years old, so a bout of pneumonia is no small matter. I changed my vacation plans, got on a plane and flew to Southern California. Dad…

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…

Smoke may seem to be all that’s on everyone’s minds, but for fasters in the #Hungry4Justice hunger strike currently in Ashland it reinforces the message of their fight. Faster Dot Fisher-Smith, an Ashland resident with a long history of…

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…

Like any responsible environmentalist I have been throwing my trash into separate bins for decades, assuming that the city-contracted waste hauler was sending mixed garbage to a local landfill, and plastics, glass, and paper to American…

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.”…