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 often, one escapes to a fancier neighborhood — through hard work, a lucky break or a mix of the two — to become what’s mockingly […]
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Dispelling the Princess Myth
As a child, I wasn’t much for princesses and happy-ever-after fairytales, and most Disney interpretations of princessdom passed me by, so I wasn’t entirely sure how I was going to relate to this musical reinterpretation of multiple Disney princess stories. Fortunately, Redwood Curtain Theatre’s production of Disenchanted provides just enough of the saccharine background for […]
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Dating Advice for the Cursed
Nobody ever said finding a mate was easy. In some places, the absence of suitable suitors or a dating pool up to snuff is more prevalent than elsewhere. Heck, I’ve even heard some whispers that Humboldt County isn’t ideal. In Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, ladies and lads gone lacking for love serves as a jumping-off […]
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The Drag King
Drag shows, and even drag itself, are in a sense as old as theater itself, for varied reasons ranging back countless centuries. Be it a lack of female performers for female roles or plays with plot points involving men dressed as women, history has not suffered for a lack of men in dresses. But the […]
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Family Circles
Don’t hold Eleemosynary‘s title against it. It’s a clever device by playwright Lee Blessing (whose Going to St. Ives was a popular production at Redwood Curtain Theatre last year) that plays into the content of the piece. It means “charitable” and it is the winning word in a national spelling contest. Eleemosynary, now playing at […]
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Perfect Winter Trips
The North Coast doesn’t really do seasons the way the rest of the world does. We don’t believe in dividing the year into four neat periods, each with their own weather. Instead, mix up our rain and fog, darkness and light in varying quantities and distribute it in ever surprising ways throughout the seasons. Our […]
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Look, an LFL!
That’s a “Little Free Library” to the uninitiated. And, according to our very own master of the field notes, Journal contributor Barry Evans, there’s a new one in town. Evans and his wife, Louisa Rogers, are in fact responsible for the thing, which resides on the Snug Alley backside of the Redwood Curtain Theatre. But […]