(July 25, 2019)
First performed in France in 1664, Molière's Tartuffe is a comedy for the ages — a hypocritical individual seeks to relieve an impressionable gentleman of his wealth, possessions and social...
(June 27, 2019)
This year's Mad River Festival kicked off on a rather different note than previous years. Instead of the usual biting satirical drama, Dell'Arte is celebrating someone who's been a...
(May 23, 2019)
Thesis Festival Dell'Arte's annual Thesis Festival represents the graduating MFA students' transition to the world beyond school — a world to which they will bring the totality of their three-year...
(May 9, 2019)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox The best writers of children's books tend to come from rather curious backgrounds and Roald Dahl had that part of the CV down pat. A...
(May 2, 2019)
Playwright John Patrick Shanley describes 15 as a "special, beautiful room. In hell," in Prodigal Son, now playing at Redwood Curtain Theatre. The play sets a teenage boy's search for...
(March 21, 2019)
The Winter's Tale The canon of William Shakespeare is mostly discussed by superfans and laypeople alike as split between dramas — be they blood-soaked epics of kings or more intimate...
Adoration of the Old Woman at HSU and Iphigenia 2.1 at the Inn at 2nd & C
(March 6, 2019)
It's International Women's Day this Friday, March 8, so it's particularly appropriate that Humboldt theater-goers have two very different female-centric productions to choose from. At Humboldt State University's Gist Hall...
(February 28, 2019)
Buddhism tells us that we are like a bunch of flowers: When we die, we become the raw material to make new flowers. But the original is never coming back....
(January 31, 2019)
We've all been there. You're a middle-aged "retired" (read, talentless) dancer, furtively packing to leave your husband for the umpteenth time, trying to convince your brother this one will stick...
(January 24, 2019)
Neighbors can be odd. Next-door neighbors even more so. You're not under the same roof, like siblings. But you are expected to get along with them, albeit for reasons of...
(January 17, 2019)
The Vietnam War shaped Eric Hollenbeck. American "missions" in Iraq, Afghanistan and countless others since have shaped generations of veterans who struggle to function in a world that has little...
(December 13, 2018)
As a Brit, I'm a sucker for a good pantomime and this year's offering at the Arcata Playhouse is up there with the best. Robin Hood - Knight of the...
(December 6, 2018)
Taking place just after the Great Depression in a small Indiana town, the 1983 movie A Christmas Story tells the tale of one young man's fevered quest for a toy...
(November 29, 2018)
Steamships and railroads ushered in an era of mad adventuring in the 19th century, so it's no surprise that Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of means, decides to circumnavigate the globe....
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at NCRT
(November 15, 2018)
As a young boy, I lost a classwide spelling bee on the word "broccoli." My teacher said I spelled it with two 'l's (I didn't, and I will die on...
