(March 31, 2022)
Every morning when I sit at my dining table, I see the card Joan Schirle sent me this last holiday season. "Hope to see you in the New Year in...
(March 31, 2022)
It only took close to 500 years for a musical that enacts my unpopular opinion that Shakespeare has become a model of elite and pompous thespian culture in which good...
(March 24, 2022)
If you come to Man of La Mancha knowing nothing more than it was a Broadway hit and Tony winner that spawned the hit song and eventual standard "The Impossible...
(March 17, 2022)
The celebration of life for Clint Rebik at Blue Lake Casino's Sapphire Palace on Dec. 4, 2021, was a lively one. The venue was packed with masked attendees from...
(February 24, 2022)
Let's face it, care homes for seniors do not have the greatest reputation. But perhaps that's because they're not run by a belatedly woke and gender-fluid CEO and an events...
(February 3, 2022)
For the first show since shuttering its doors two years ago due to COVID-19, Ferndale Repertory has staged playwright Michael Frayn's popular farce Noise Off. It's an ambitious choice —...
(December 9, 2021)
Last week, I went to Tin Can Mailman in Arcata and purchased a used copy of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and started reading it again for the first time...
After a 16-month wait, NCRT's Hamlet triumphs at last
(August 5, 2021)
You may know more lines from William Shakespeare's Hamlet off the top of your head than you think you even do; it's just that great packed with excellent lines...
The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspre (Abridged) (Revised)
(July 29, 2021)
The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspre (Abridged) (Revised) — hereinafter referred to as CWWS for the sake of my fingers — was assembled by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess...
(July 15, 2021)
Michael Fields is at pains to point out that Longshadr, his newly unveiled theatrical venture, is not a production company. Rather, it is project-based, existing solely for the purpose of...
(June 24, 2021)
They danced in their kitchens, in their tiny bedrooms, on their porches with the dog running around their feet. Amid a pandemic, Humboldt County's dancers kept dancing, even though...
