Stage Matters

Dame Judi Dench

A Little Illness Music I've got this cold or flu kind of thing. You can't count on a regular cold pattern anymore, apparently--they ...

Brecht by Man Ray

Eric Bentley The Jan./Feb. issue of The Dramatist includes an interview with Eric Bentley, now 91 years old. For me, Bentley is the benchmar...

Brian Friel's Translations has been revived on Broadway, and was reviewed in the New York Times recently. This photo is from the HSU pr...

T he Dream Play by August Strindberg is performed at the Van Duzer Theatre by the Young Actors Guild. These shows from the Northcoast Pre...

Jake's Women by Neil Simon comes to North Coast Repertory on January 25, with Michael Thomas, Jolene Hayes, Shelley Stewart, Suza Lambe...

Michael Frayn: "To be part of a good audience is exhilarating."

Let's Hear It for the Audience I've just finished writing a review for the San Francisco Chronicle of British playwright Michael Fra...

"Actors are people, only more so." So said Peter O'Toole on the latest in a series of fascinating conversations with Charlie...

I once had after-theatre supper with Maggie Smith, sort of. Familiar to a new generation as Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter m...

from an HSU production of Camelot in 2003 A newly rewritten and restaged version of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot will ...

The Invention of Empathy The January issue of American Theatre contains a remarkable essay by Oskar Eustis, the new artistic director of the...

T here might have been no Cole Porter or Ira Gershwin, no Dorothy Fields, Lorenz Hart or Alan Jay Lerner; certainly no Kalmar and Ruby (th...

In beginning their season with The Ladies of the Camellias , North Coast Rep demonstrates respect for North Coast audiences, repaid with a...

 T wo men share a prison cell in Argentina. Molina is a gay window dresser imprisoned for indecency who escapes into the romantic movies he ...