Stage Matters

  Just in time to motivate votes for Big Bird, Redwood Curtain presents a satirical comedy about a PBS children's show based on a t...

Women of the Northwest continues with its second and final weekend at the Arcata Playhouse.   I'll add one point to my generally exp...

W omen of the Northwest , on stage at the Arcata Playhouse, celebrates 14 or so individual women in local history. But in performance, t...

E dison’s electricity was just beginning to transform middle class American life in the early 20th century. This is the setting for In th...

The San Francisco troupe called the Pi Clowns returns to the Arcata Playhouse with a new show, The Good the Bad and the Stupid, a Wild ...

It was a chilly summer here on the North Coast but the early autumn is warm and sunny, so maybe it’s appropriate that the North Coast Repe...

L ong ago and far away, I was party to a conversation between two multi-talented and wise women of American drama, Corinne Jacker and Patr...

This is a considerably longer version of a column I wrote for the end of August, which was postponed due to space considerations until the ...

Cinderella is one of the world’s most popular stories, and among the oldest. It’s probably also the only one in which the climactic mom...

T he Red Velvet Cake War is the summer comic confection now on stage at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka. The Verdeen girls--Gayne...

F ledging American small town writer Cliff Bradshaw (played by Charlie Heinberg) comes to Berlin in 1929, and falls into a relationship wi...

Parents who enjoy an outdoor show with the family at the Mad River Festival but had doubts about explaining Mary Jane: The Musical to th...

 In Show People , the contemporary comedy now on stage at Redwood Curtain in Eureka, the middle aged acting couple of Marnie and Jerry (pl...

A Sharper Focus for Dell’Arte’s Musical Extravaganja Last summer’s Mary Jane: The Musical was a box office success that many more ...

 In the previous 21 years of the Mad River Festival, the outdoor show was rained out only twice. But that number was equaled opening we...

In case you've been out of range of the hype, Dell'Arte opens take two of Mary Jane: The Musical on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the am...

Avenue Q, a much-praised 2003 musical that’s still running in Manhattan, is currently onstage at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka ...

I remember my mother standing at an ironing board in the motel room where our family was staying on a vacation trip in the summer of 1960...