Stage Matters

 Among those that the North Coast and North Coast theatre lost in 2023 were Donald Forrest, Charlie Myers and Bernadette Cheyne.  Donald For...

  To my knowledge, an Arthur Giron play has never been staged on the North Coast.  Yet his approach to the stage has influenced productions ...

  Update 2/16: Though North Coast media has so far failed to recognize Joan's achievements, the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook has a l...

Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by the death of Jonathan Miller.  He was an important presence a...

One of the many essays that appeared after Peter Hall's recent death, written by younger theatre artists he mentored,   ended with tr...

T he most exciting evening I'd experienced as an audience member of professional theatre to that time, and really never to be surpass...

In addition to the much lauded local production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons , recently produced by Ferndale Rep and Arcata Playhous...

Only one more reason this country is going to miss this extraordinary President: "Mr. Obama’s long view of history and the optimism...

The so-called controversy over who wrote Shakespeare's plays has always been irritating, based mostly on the uninformed and class-ridd...

It's been more than a year now since I stopped writing Stage Matters, and about a year since I collected past columns and wrote retros...

In connection with the Humboldt State University production of Kiss Me, Kate (October 2015), I researched and wrote background stories th...

“In a way no other songs of the period quite did,” wrote journalist Walter Clemons, “Porter’s created a world.”  But the man who personi...

Patricia Morison in Hollywood What would a hit musical be without a Cinderella story? In this case it wasn’t in the plot but in the orig...