Stage Matters

[ Muse was a short-lived monthly insert in the North Coast Journal previewing the next month's arts and entertainment events.  I did sta...

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival's National Selection Team just announced their individual commendations for partici...

North Coast Prep presents A Russian Promenade at the Bayside Grange, beginning May 11. Director Gretha Omey Stenger uses the framework of...

The City University of New York has refused to give playwright Tony Kushner a planned honorary degree because a member of its board of trus...

"Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art." Konstantin Stanislavsky

Almost, Maine , now on stage at Redwood Curtain, is a collection of love stories told in ten scenes with two people in each, united only b...

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...