Season: 2012

Our 2012 Annual Ashland Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration kept up with a tradition of having hip-hop in the program. This year it was Ben Baden’s original rap with beats from DJ Omari and Aisha Wand’s dance troupe Ashland Danceworks.

"A Show with Humor and a Grave Message"

Well, it’s Friday, so there must be a Famous Face! This week it is Karen Grassle, perhaps best known as ‘Ma Ingalls’ on eight seasons of “Little House on the Prairie.” In 2003, she played the Duchess of York in our production of “Richard II.”

In "All the Way," Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan ("Handler," "By the Waters of Babylon") turns his gaze to Lyndon Baines Johnson from his ascendancy to the presidency through the passage of the Civil Rights Act and his victory in the 1964 presidential election.

At the start of a meeting I had last week with a director I was graced with the general pleasantry of “what have you been working on?” I had been working on an unrelated show at the time which lead to a question I had not expected. “Well, what can I thank you for?”