On August 31, 2011, Dan Jason Goyette, age 42, of Talent, Oregon, was arrested at the Medford Airport on a warrant issued for the felony charge of attempting to use a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. Dan… Continue Reading
On 8/30/11 at approximately 1506 hours, Medford Police Officers were assisting DHS in a home assessment in the 700 block of Wabash Ave. Officers were unable to get anyone inside the residence to come to the door. Suddenly a male… Continue Reading
ASHLAND, Ore. – In all the scrambling done this summer by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival when a beam cracked in its largest indoor venue, one of the productions unaffected was a darkly intimate portrayal of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” The 400-year-old… Continue Reading
On 8/22/11 at 2143 hours (9:43 p.m.), Medford Police Officers responded to a reported gunshot victim in front of the Woodland Heights Market at Columbus and Prune, Medford. Arriving officers found the victim, Joshua Lee Sandusky, 33 y.o.a. of Medford,… Continue Reading
On Sunday, 08/21/2011, at 0351 hours (3:51 a.m.) Medford Police Officers responded to a reported fight at 430 S. Columbus Avenue involving 15-20 subjects with weapons. The weapons reported to having been used were knives, bats, and clubs. Arriving officers… Continue Reading
Amanda Dehnert’s Ashland production – by far the most powerful and original “Julius Caesar” I’ve seen – is like a jolt of black coffee: dark, strong, bitter, pungent. A nerve-jangling wake-up call; a bleak play for bleak times. To set… Continue Reading
Wednesday at around midnight, officers with the Ashland Police Department responded to the 100 Block of 5th St. to a report of a subject yelling and screaming in the area. While checking the alley behind that block two of the… Continue Reading
What makes this world-premiere production so gripping is the same kind of prurient interest that might make us, in spite of ourselves, pick up a Murdoch tabloid: it “hacks” its way into an “inside” view of a “true” story, an under-the-skin peek at the turmoil of very well-known people in the throes of very public – and lurid – trauma.
In “Ghost Light,” the celebrity in question is noted theater guru Jonathan Moscone, artistic helmsman of the California Shakespeare Festival. And the lurid trauma is the 1978 murder of his father, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. But what elevates this major new play, ethically and aesthetically, above the level of Fox News sleaze is that here the hacking is introspective, delving beyond sensational superficialities to tap the deepest spiritual wellsprings of its characters. Continue Reading
Upfront disclosure: of all Shakespeare’s comedies, “Love’s Labor’s Lost” has long been the most elusive for me. I never understood the characters’ motivations or how the seemingly random sub-plots fit together. Like why would a quartet of yeasty young noblemen… Continue Reading
“Break a leg!” That’s what actors traditionally wish each other as a contrarian mantra against stage fright. But when the main roof beam of Ashland’s 700-seat Bowmer Theater cracked a couple of weeks ago, the fracture frighted not just the… Continue Reading
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