Freelance writer Jim Flint is a retired Washington state newspaper editor and publisher now living in Southern Oregon.
January 4, 2026Jim Flint
Inside the Talent warehouse in Southern Oregon, thousands of festival costumes are preserved and reused, then sent to stages across the country, including "Saturday Night Live."
November 24, 2025Jim Flint
Rogue Valley Symphony will play original orchestrations of the singer’s classic songs at the Bowmer Theatre; Joan Ellison, who specializes in restoring and performing Garland’s tunes, will be the vocalist.
November 7, 2025Jim Flint
Ashland to host its first-ever Sarcasm Festival Dec. 5–7 as a host of comedians converge on Shakespeare territory and aim for audiences' funny bones.
October 28, 2025Jim Flint
The Ashland festival announces key cast members for next year's 10-play season; tickets go on sale for members in November and for the general public Dec. 2.
October 14, 2025Jim Flint
"Parcel From America," based on a story Tomáseen Foley told in Ashland in 1998, is green-lighted for a musical production in New York
September 13, 2025Jim Flint
Aura Johnson, a festival staffer since 2012 with previous roles at Skywalker Sound, Zoetrope, and other major movie companies, takes over as the festival's programming chief.
August 30, 2025Jim Flint
Ashland’s high-flying popular company, thriving after 10 years under Rick Robinson and Val Rachelle's leadership, honors its origins as it prepares to launch its 41st season.
July 15, 2025Jim Flint
"It’s always fun to play the amoral baddie": Veteran stage, TV, and voiceover actor Rick Wasserman relishes playing the villain in Oregon Cabaret Theatre's campy summer musical.
July 6, 2025Jim Flint
The veteran actor, a longtime favorite at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, returns to Ashland to star in three roles in David Lindsay-Adaire's stage comedy.
July 4, 2025Jim Flint
The broadcast journalist and NPR news director shifted to visual stories after moving to Ashland nine years ago. This month his art is at Langford Art Gallery in Phoenix.
May 30, 2025Jim Flint
While the current season continues through October, the Ashland festival announces a sweeping 2026 lineup of magic, music, and the messiness of being human.
May 17, 2025Jim Flint
The Jazz in the Vineyard series brings guitarists Mimi Fox and Derek Gripper, plus the Marcos Silva Quintet, to Ashland's Grizzly Peak Winery stage beginning May 25.
May 12, 2025Jim Flint
The symphony needed a truly grand piano. A stunning Steinway D in a New York high-rise needed to spread its wings. Now in Oregon, the big bird prepares for its debut at Medford’s Craterian Theater in a week-long "Pianopalooza."
May 4, 2025Jim Flint
With robust audiences and several hit films, this year's lively festival climbed out of the pandemic-years slump. Coming in 2026: AIFF's 25th anniversary celebration.
April 27, 2025Jim Flint
The company, which features many current and former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors, draws a loyal and growing audience for contemporary plays in the heart of Shakespeare territory.
April 14, 2025Jim Flint
The Ashland Independent Film Festival will honor the "Twin Peaks" star and one of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's most beloved artists with the Oregon premiere of the documentary “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady.”
April 11, 2025Jim Flint
Edmondson, who began his long OSF career in 1972 by playing Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew," died at home in Ashland at age 86, days after the death of fellow festival veteran Denis Arndt.
March 29, 2025Jim Flint
The Northwest actor, who spent 15 seasons as a star at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and co-founded Seattle's Intiman Theatre, leaves a sterling legacy.
March 14, 2025Jim Flint
Kenerly, a 26-year veteran of the Ashland festival who has starred in other works by the great American playwright, digs into Wilson's world of "Jitney" as the season begins.
March 12, 2025Jim Flint
Ashland photographer Christopher Briscoe will talk of his experiences and his new book, "The Women of Ukraine," at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting March 18 in Medford.
March 10, 2025Jim Flint
Daniel Molina, who will be in "Shane" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer, gets an early start in Rogue Theater Company's "Doubt" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
