Why Howe?

The problems and terrors of aging are real and worth addressing on stage (and contrary to some assertions, I don’t see this play as explicitly or even necessarily about Alzheimer’s Disease). But in general, its approach to aging seems a bit antique. It may be that Painting Churches is a younger woman’s play about old age. More than a quarter century later, Tina Howe is in her 70s, with perhaps a different perspective in her new play, Chasing Manet, which has just opened at Primary Stages in New York. It’s about two women who escape from their old age home.

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Coming Up: Redwood Curtain presents Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck, a one-person show with Tinamarie Ivey on an “idiosyncratic journey of discovery,” directed by Dan Stone, at the Arcata Playhouse. It previews Friday (March 27) at 8 p.m., with the gala opening on Saturday, and continues Thursdays through Saturdays for two more weekends, ending April 11. Tickets: 443-7688 or www.redwoodcurtain.com. This is the first of a three-play Redwood Curtain season at the Playhouse.

College of the Redwoods presents Moliere’s classic comedy of manners, The Misanthrope, in the CR Forum Theatre Thursday through Saturday (March 26-28) and next weekend (April 2-4) at 8 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee this Sunday. 476-4558.

Arcata High’s Once Upon a Mattress and McKinleyville High’s You Can’t Take It With You have come and gone, but Eureka High School will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance Thursdays through Saturdays this weekend (March 26-8) and next (April 2-4) at 7:30 p.m. in the Eureka High Auditorium. It’s $8/$5, but on opening night if you’re dressed like a pirate, you get in free.

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