Swing Time Travel: Photos and Video from the Taiko Swingposium

by Mark Larson on February 9, 2020 at 11:41AM

Last weekend, the San Jose Taiko Swingposium Immersive Theater Experience's On the Road show transformed the Bayside Community Hall into a World War II-era dance hall in a Japanese-American incarceration camp. While under armed guard and having lost their homes, possessions and rights as Americans, those in the camps played music and held dances like these within their barbed-wire confines to maintain a sense of hope and community.

Photos: Dell'Arte's 'Return to Oz'

by Mark Larson on December 7, 2019 at 3:00PM

The 39th annual Dell'Arte 2019 Holiday Show: Return to Oz is now at one of the many traveling and free venues coming up before its return to Blue Lake in two weeks. The storyline of Dorothy as an angst-ridden, friendless, guitar-playing teenager (you likely know one or used to be one) begins with her unhappiness at being back in Kansas, missing her Oz friends.

Photos from Dell'Arte's Tim Gray Tribute

by Mark Larson on June 25, 2019 at 1:02PM

Photos from the Beaver Sisters

by Mark Larson on December 19, 2018 at 6:26PM

Off on a Tangent: An interview with Steven Wright

by Dev Richards on October 16, 2018 at 1:50PM

If you don’t know his name, you know his visage and presence. His cadence and playful monotony have made him a stalwart of the standup comedy scene for nearly four decades.

When Worlds Collide — The Last Weekend of Mad River Festival Theatre

by Pat Bitton on July 6, 2018 at 8:18AM

#//<EMBEDDED>//# and Life Beneath the Stars at the Arcata Playhouse, Eli and the Bear at the Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake all challenge our perceptions of reality and our role in the world. #//<EMBEDDED>//#

Mad About Dell'Arte

by Kimberly Wear on June 28, 2018 at 12:15PM

Humboldt County’s own Dell’Arte International received a shout-out from the San Francisco Chronicle this week in an article highlighting the performing art center’s 47-year history, nearly all of which has been spent in the bucolic city of Blue Lake. Currently ongoing is its 28th annual Mad River Festival, which features original theatrical works by the company.

Will We Ever Get Out of Here? A review of Dell'Arte's Let Me Out!

by Pat Bitton on May 25, 2018 at 1:24PM

Let Me Out! explores what happens when theater meets role-playing game meets escape room, wrapped up in a murder-mystery evening that may or may not be trapped in an endless repeating cycle.

Hedwig Postponed Due to Injury

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on May 18, 2018 at 4:50PM

Director Rae Robison says she's a little relieved — as punk rock as it would be to belt out numbers all night with a face full of angry stitches, it's just too soon for Cox's health. He'll need an extra week to recover but will be on for next weekend. NCRT staff are calling ticket holders to let them know their passes will be honored for a later performance and another weekend has been added for the popular show.

SpongeBob and Sara Bareilles at the Tonys

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on May 1, 2018 at 12:58PM