Stage Matters

Richard Burton in the 1964 "Hamlet" on Broadway, directed by John Gielgud.

On my most recent visit to Booklegger in Eureka, I found a copy of the first and probably only edition of Richard Burton in Hamlet , a book ...

Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind and David Oyelowo as Orlando in "As You Like It" on DVD, an HBO film directed by Kenneth Branagh.

With Henry V in 1989, Kenneth Branagh burst onto the world cinema scene as a combination Orson Welles (theatre enfant terrible who directs ...

You wind it up tight in the first act, and in the second act it flies apart, only to somehow come together in the end. That’s the basic me...

Jeff DeMark takes his solo show, "Hard as a Diamond, Soft as Dirt" to Willow Creek this weekend, Friday and Saturday (July 18, 1...

playwright Dave Silverbrand(left) appears in his new comedy at Ferndale Rep.

Ferndale Rep and the Senior Repertory Company open Dave Silverbrand's comedy, Make Mine Metamucil, directed by Denise Ryles, at the Re...

There’s something about the opening show of the Mad River Festival that inspires ruminations—or pontifications—about theatre itself. Last s...

Stephen Greenblatt has a very interesting essay in the new New York Review of Books about the celebrated production of Shakespeare's M...

Dell'Arte' s Korbel IV finishes its run this weekend, July 3-6. My Journal review is here. Jennifer Savage posts her Arcata Eye r...

Korbel IV, the latest episode in Dell'Arte's ongoing North Coast soap opera, opens the Mad River Festival this weekend.

F irst, the before IV of Korbel :  The saga of the Dugan family in the mythical North Coast town of Korbel began in 1994. So before de...

I don't usually do music events here, but maybe I should. Anyway, there's an important one this weekend, and since the story in No...

Also on Saturday, Dell'Arte's Mad River Festival gets started with an appearance by Hollywood’s Tim Robbins and several other memb...

The Clay Cart suggests limitations of western drama Recently I reviewed a Dell' Arte School's MFA Ensemble production, Between T...

Vasantasenā, (Miriam A. Laube, left) dances for Chārudatta (Cristofer Jean, right) as Maitreya (Michael J. Hume) looks on, in the Oregon S...

With clouds of incense rising above them, the large cast in colorful costumes is arrayed in a circle. They sit on cushions and stand under l...