Theaters and performers adjust toa season cut short by COVID-19
(March 26, 2020)
Leira Satlof and her team chose Clue: The Musical for Ferndale Repertory's 2020 season because they thought people needed some fun. "We chose it because things were already kind of...
(February 27, 2020)
Just as time is a somewhat fluid concept in James Joyce's Ulysses, so it is in Steven Dietz's hauntingly moving 2015 play Bloomsday, now in production at Redwood Curtain Theatre....
(January 30, 2020)
Or rather Fun Home – the Bechdel kids' name for the inherited funeral home they grew up in and the latest production at Ferndale Repertory Theatre. Alison Bechdel, oldest of...
(January 23, 2020)
Are we here right now? And if we are, can we trust what we see before us? The idea of life as a complete or occasional dream state isn't new...
Three productions showcase Humboldt theater's range
(December 12, 2019)
Scout's Honor: The Whichever Scouts vs. The Energy Monster This year's holiday show at the Arcata Playhouse, Scout's Honor: The Whichever Scouts vs. the Energy Monster, combines traditional English pantomime...
(December 5, 2019)
Return to Oz After battling high winds on State Route 299, I was braced for Dell'Arte's 2019 holiday show, Return to Oz, and the on-stage hurricane that carries Dorothy away...
(November 14, 2019)
Before Evita, before Cats, before becoming a household name from the West End to Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber made a mark a half-century back in the nascent genre of rock...
(November 7, 2019)
Rabbit Hole When we hear the phrase "going down a rabbit hole" today, we tend to think of the endless distractions dangled in front of us by the internet. But...
(October 31, 2019)
The 1980s are a decade remembered as a little more feckless, joyous and callow than they in fact were. In line with that recollection is a whole era of teen...
