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 Theatre is José Rivera’s Adoration of the Old Woman, a well-crafted envisioning of Puerto Rico’s future through the eyes of a young woman, her great-grandmother, […]
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Who’s Who?
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. What we, the audience, want to do with this little gem is what the Usher (a friendly, matter-of-fact Jeff Cooper) asks us to consider (along […]
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Epic Battles
Ripcord David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord, the current production at Redwood Curtain, reunites three local favorites, director Cassandra Hesseltine and lead players Peggy Metzger and Susan Abbey, who teamed up for Lindsay-Abaire’s excellent Good People at Redwood Curtain earlier this year. It’s a dream team that’s clearly at home with the touching and humorous perspective on life […]
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Hay Fever Breaks Out at HSU
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 Abbey) is the matriarch, a retired stage actress and leading lady in her own drama. She is alternately jealous of and disappointed by her bratty, […]