Stage Matters

Arcata Playhouse hosts its periodic local All-Star show, "Club Shampoo" on Friday at 9pm: lots of comedy, music, various forms o...

On August 28, 1963 I was one of more than a quarter of a million people in the now-famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. I was...

That's what Shakespeare called it, but his texts have remained pretty substantial. The text and the moment, as in Tony Kushner's ...

The proper relationship of the text and the performance is often controversial, and different styles of theatre handle it differently--as do...

"Hotel Cassiopeia" by Charles Mee at the Court Theatre in 2006.

"People just think that structure is something separate from what they have to say, but the way we structure what we have to say is may...

David Tennant and Patrick Stewart open Hamlet; David Warner in the classic 1960s Hamlet; archeologists excavate what is believed to be the f...

Yes, it's time again for the Shakespeare in the News roundup. Tonight's headline: Dr. Who and Captain Picard Star in Hamlet! Well,...

top: Samuel Beckett in London in 1983. bottom: Harold Pinter playing in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape in London in the late 90s.

Since "Memories" by the Signature Stage uses Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, I went back to look at the play and its ...

"Theatre is a pragmatic art form. It's a storytelling art form, and lives or dies by its storytelling." Tom Stoppard

Melissa Lawson and Tinamarie Ivey in "Memories," Volume 1 in the year-long project called Shades of Grey, by Signature Stage. ...

There are these paradoxes: theatre, like movies, TV and major-publisher literature, is increasingly created by the young, to the extent th...

Stephen Reinhardt and Gilmer McCormick, guest artists for Ferndale Rep's production of Godspell, opening tonight. (See story below.)

Three shows open this weekend (four if you count the Ooh La La revue at the Eagle House): Sanctuary Stage officially opens the " Me...

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...