With Halloween over and the holiday season officially upon us, the coming months will offer much in the way of charming, sugar-sprinkled and heartwarming entertainment to enjoy with our families. Redwood Curtain Theatre’s production of Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz is not one of those productions. However, for those navigating their own family […]
Kate Haley
Dog mom, amateur photographer, and theatre kid, Kate Haley is currently working towards her degree in critical race, gender and sexuality studies at Humboldt State University.
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A Brave Adventure
At its heart, Coraline is a story about things that are not what they are, so it’s fitting that in its adaptation for the stage it becomes a musical that is not quite a musical and a story about a child that is not really geared toward children. The show challenges expectations (it doesn’t even […]
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They’re Creepy and They’re Kooky
Some things go together so naturally we don’t even question: cookies and milk or peanut butter and anything. Then there are combos that seem a mite odd at first, but ultimately prove delightful: chicken and waffles. I would place The Addams Family musical firmly in the second category. As someone who grew up on both […]
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Churning Point
A one-set play about an uncomfortable topic is a hard sell, so I applaud Humboldt State University’s decision to stage Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter. The play about racism at a small New England college unfolds entirely within the office of one of the school’s administrators, and it’s not a “traditional” play about race. While […]