Stage Matters

set for Light on the Piazza J ean Heard Bazemore began directing theatre on the North Coast in 1969.  She directed and taught at HSU unt...

Time Magazine has chosen its Person of the Year for 2014: The Ebola Fighters. One of the covers belongs to Ella Watson-Stryker, the Doct...

The origin story of Sanctuary Stage, begun in Eureka by Dan Stone and Tinamarie Ivey in 2006, is reproduced below. Dan Stone learned comme...

The origins of the Arcata Playhouse are described in the 2007 column I also reproduce at the end of this one.  Since then there have indee...

A staged reading of the first play ever produced at what became Humboldt State University happens one hundred years to the day later, on ...

I've seen the saga of Redwood Curtain from its public beginning, from its first production at the Eagle House, of A Perfect Ganesh by ...

This is my draft of a column from December 2006: an account of three productions I saw on one Sunday.  It's notable for the Sanctuary St...

When we were living in Pittsburgh, Margaret came back from a national theatre conference somewhere with a load of brochures and other hand...

I started this blog in January 2007, so the reviews, previews and so on I wrote in 2006 and 2007 aren't here.  Some of them now aren...