The Claire Bent Jazz Quintet is putting on a holiday show at the Basement this evening, consider sleighing through to hear the talented eponymous vocalist slaying on the mic in front of her crack-sharp band of merry revelers. Tis the season for this kind of cheer, after all. The doors are at 7:30 p.m. and […]
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Match Girl Strikes a Chord at the Playhouse
The Little Match Girl: A Warm Tale on a Cold Night, written and directed by James Peck and Sarah Peters Gonzalez, is the annual holiday show at Arcata Playhouse. It is a re-imagination of Hans Christian Andersen’s famous short story “The Little Match Girl,” with more plot, contemporary comment and a twist on the ending. […]
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Nightlight Illuminates a Different Dell’Arte
I am used to Dell’Arteians eviscerating themselves for audiences to use their organs as runes to divine a work’s meaning — the absurdity of characters so realized that overly grand gestures are not only normal but expected as the given circumstances of the piece. Nightlight, the newest devised Dell’Arte work is neither. Nor does it […]
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The (Holiday) Show Must Go On
The holidays in Humboldt wouldn’t be the same without the fun and frolicking of Dell’Arte’s annual holiday show, an hour of nonstop high-energy, story-driven entertainment that has something for everyone. Back in September, Dell’Arte’s challenged its third-year MFA students to come up with a concept that could be produced with the number of actors available […]
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Dell’Arte’s Holiday Show Comes to Your Living Room
As you scan the growing list of holiday traditions we’ll be skipping this year due to COVID-19 and Humboldt County’s move into the purple “widespread” risk tier, cross off the annual Dell’Arte holiday show. The Blue Lake-based theater folks are taking the always innovative performances, which normally tour the county with free shows for the […]
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Photos: Dell’Arte’s ‘Return to Oz’
The 39th annual Dell’Arte 2019 Holiday Show: Return to Oz is now at one of the many traveling and free venues coming up before its return to Blue Lake in two weeks. The storyline of Dorothy as an angst-ridden, friendless, guitar-playing teenager (you likely know one or used to be one) begins with her unhappiness […]
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Brave Girls
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 from the world where Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, and everyone at school think she’s a little crazy and back to a version of L. Frank […]
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Grown-up Problems
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 Tetzlaff, Alyssa Hughlett and Sarah Peters, the team behind The Grasshopper and the Aunt, the holiday show now playing at the Arcata Playhouse. As with […]