(May 24, 2018)
May is always an exciting month at Dell'Arte. It's when the multinational class of graduating students stages its final ensemble creations — the culmination of the school's three-year MFA program....
(May 17, 2018)
As a bridge between the rock, pop and soul music of the 1960s and the explosion of punk in the late 1970s, and the myriad subgenres that followed, there...
(May 10, 2018)
The House That Will Not Stand The 2014 play The House that Will Not Stand, written by poet/playwright and Oakland native Marcus Gardley and now playing at Redwood Curtain Theatre...
(May 3, 2018)
The Bliss family at the center of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, now playing at Humboldt State University's Gist Hall Theatre, is the epitome of English eccentricity and over-the-top-ness. Judith (Susan...
(March 22, 2018)
In the late 17th century in what is now Mexico City, the convent of San Jeronimo was home to one of the most extensive libraries in the New World, presided...
(March 15, 2018)
The Little Sisters of Hoboken are a welcoming lot, meeting and greeting us audience members as we obediently file into the auditorium and locate our seats for the opening of...
(March 8, 2018)
Who among us has not winced at a friend's seemingly inadvisable romantic choice? Fortunately, however, most of us to do not as a result find ourselves at the center of...
(February 1, 2018)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? looms large in the collective mind. Born as a Tony Award-winning play from the pen of the great Edward Albee in 1962, it was adapted...
(January 25, 2018)
The meaning of the word "Shakespearian" is elusive when tossed around by wags and pundits, and it's occasionally used with a little laziness. It's dispatched to label something as being...
Arcata Playhouse's fun fable and HSU's Peanuts drama
(December 7, 2017)
The Grasshopper and the Aunt Pantomime is a proud European tradition that I'm happy to see gaining a foothold in the U.S., thanks to theatrical funsters like James Peck, Amy...
Dell'Arte's 2017 holiday show melts the hardest hearts
(November 30, 2017)
Dell'Arte's 37th annual touring production is a delightful take on a familiar story of good triumphing over evil, with plenty of magic and other shenanigans along the way. Director Michael...
(November 16, 2017)
Plays offer a look into a different era, with modern productions taking on material written centuries ago. But Pippin affords a chance to see a dual track on that: The...
(November 2, 2017)
South Boston is blue-collar Irish through and through. A combination of shop work, factory work, informal childcare and bingo is how most of the community gets through life. Every so...
(October 26, 2017)
Avenue Q is a puppet show with humans. Or a human show with puppets. Whichever way you look at it, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx's musical, now playing at...
(October 5, 2017)
With the changing weather and darkening skies, October in Humboldt is well suited to those who relish turning their attention to gruesome subjects, culminating in the finale on Oct. 31,...
(September 21, 2017)
My good friend Tom is very much a man of science and mathematics, and also the smartest person I know. I talk with him about all manner of things and...
