Stage Matters

The HSU Opera Workshop presents Mozart's opera The Magic Flute for three performances this weekend: Friday and Saturday (April 22, 23)...

Open auditions for the musical Brigadoon to be produced by HSU Theatre, Film & Dance and HSU Music departments in October: Thursday and...

Opening this weekend for two weekends--Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 in the Van Duzer Theatre--is Gravity Defined, the annual HSU da...

This is a very slightly extended version of my North Coast Journal review.   There are a number of other posts on this site about Othello...

As local theatres compete for actors and audience, naturally they schedule their plays all at the same time. So after a relatively motionles...

[This is an expanded version of my North Coast Journal review of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead at the College of...

Stoppard’s m.o. is as a clever wordsmith, but it’s not just the vocabulary or even the ideas—it’s the rhythms.   They make his plays appe...

Above left--the original National Theatre production. Above right, the New York premiere program. John Wood played Guildenstern in New...

Except for some edited (or dropped) speeches, some funny physical business and the larger crowd scene for the ending eliminated, CR hon...

At CR, Daniel Lawrence provides a simple set and Kjeld Lyth directs a straightforward production. Lexus Landry as Rosencrantz and Charlie H...

Stoppard by now has an impressive body of work.  A rough count of his original plays still available for performance plus his adaptations th...

Another factor in Tom Stoppard success--or at least a big part of his reputation from the beginning--was that he gave good interview.  There...

College of the Redwoods presents Tom Stoppard's first hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, about what's happening elsewhere ...

It's time for me to answer the comments of Janet Waddell on my review in the North Coast Journal of the Ferndale Rep production of Amad...

photo: CSU--East Bay cast of Xtigone From my latest Stage Matters column about the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival producti...

This post and the following post are about the two original plays seen at HSU in mid-February as part of the Kennedy Center American Colleg...

The other first production of a play was The Time Machine or Love Among the Eloi by Seattle playwright Edward Mast, presented by Ohlone Co...

from the St. Mary College of California production of Angels in America Under different circumstances, the four plays that HSU hosted dur...

This is the closest I can come to a relevant photo. It's from the 2009 Syracuse Stage production of Up, in which Christopher DuVal app...

In the 1980s Amadeus — both play and movie — caused a sensation. When British playwright Peter Shaffer portrayed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart i...