(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...
Buckle your swashes for a rip-roaring good time at Ferndale Rep
(October 3, 2019)
France was still embroiled in revolution when the story of The Three Musketeers first appeared in 1844. So, even though the story itself is set in the early 17th century,...
(September 19, 2019)
If you're looking for lighthearted entertainment that will have you wondering who did it right until the very end, you'll have a lot of fun with North Coast Repterory...
A herstorical perspective at Redwood Curtain Theatre
(September 12, 2019)
The Revolutionists takes a fresh look at the French Revolution through the experiences of four women, three real and one composite. Two are familiar: Queen Marie Antoinette (Kaitlyn Samuel Rosin)...
(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...
