Revels

As the annular eclipse draws near, we’re seeing multiple events and watch parties cropping up here and there, ready to watch the moon overtake the sun on the morning of October 14th. Unlike 2017’s total eclipse, this one is going to bring a…

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has not been having a good time as of late. Not only have they had to scale back the amount of shows available due to poor attendance caused by the height of Covid, but now several shows have had to be…

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back in Ashland. We’re here to give you the details on what you need to know and how to attend. Due to declining attendance back in 2022, you may notice that the OSF is a bit trimmed this year. Which…

Susanne Severeid’s “musings” may be hatched at her ease in Ashland coffee shops “like a dollop of cream on a pie,” but they get at gritty life questions, celebrate friendships and, with 41 columns appearing in the Tidings over the years,…

Two women, strangers to each other, are caught in an airport time warp, waiting for their flights to board. The setup sounds like it could be a nightmare and, at first, it is. “Walter Cronkite is Dead,” directed by Jeannine Grizzard, opened…

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,…

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.”…