Molly Tinsley
Jefferson Journal ContributorIn an episode of sanity, Molly Tinsley decided twenty years of teaching literature and creative writing at the U. S. Naval Academy was enough. She resigned from the faculty, moved west, and now writes full-time in Ashland and Portland. She crafts the Theatre and the Arts column for the Jefferson Journal magazine.
Tinsley is the recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships in fiction, and has published a novel, My Life with Darwin, and a story collection, Throwing Knives, which won the Oregon Book Award in 2001. Her dramatic work has been a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference and the Heideman award, among other prizes, and she’s a survivor of the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. Her most recent work in narrative explores its antipodes: the memoir, Entering the Blue Stone, and the spy thriller, Broken Angels.
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The history of adapting Damon Runyon’s story collection, Guys and Dolls, for the stage is as full of twists and turns as the musical itself. Example: the… -
Shakespeare’s Pericles bears the stamp of its source, a series of medieval romances by the poet John Gower. Like the typical romance, Pericles dismisses…
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Rituals originally evolved in order to manage the unmanageable fact of somatic change: birth, maturation, procreation, death. Contemporary culture and…
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Actors strive onstage to “tell the story” laid down by the playwright and envisioned by the director. In an illuminating new book by Mary Z. Maher and…
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Valerie Rachelle met Jim Giancarlo eight years ago at the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts. As Artistic Director of the Oregon Cabaret…
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Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way brings to the stage Lyndon Johnson’s first year as President. Though the office is thrust upon him by Kennedy’s…
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In its twenty-third season, Ashland New Plays Festival promises that ANPF 2014 will offer the most entertaining and edifying program yet. To kick off the…
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The biography of Jim Giancarlo paints a portrait of the artist from a very early age. His boyhood fascination with producing neighborhood shows, his…
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Rituals of initiation unfold in three phases: the first separates the individual from the world she’s taken for granted; the third reintegrates her into a…
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Shakespeare’s first four history plays reconstruct the political chaos of the English court under the incompetent King Henry VI. The power-hungry House of…
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I confess: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town was never my town. The notion of family rooted in the same rural village for generations is light years from my…
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Lorraine Hansberry’s premature death from cancer in 1965 at the age of the thirty-four deprived American theatre of a brilliant light. Her first play, A…
