Cornerstone is headed to California’s North Coast to collaborate with folks in the town of Eureka and Humboldt County! 

The Cornerstone Insitute Summer Residency begins July 9. Seventeen brilliant and beautiful Institute students aged 19 to 50+ will travel from all over the country to help produce a new community-collaborative production as well as take classes in Cornerstone methodology. Students and Cornerstone's staff are so excited to get to know the people who live and work in Eureka and to explore Humboldt County!

Ensemble member Peter Howard is writing a new play called GOLDEN FLEECE: Jason in Eureka, which is a Eureka-specific retelling of the mythic adventures of Jason. The play includes the classic epic tale combined with present-day characters living in a west side Eureka neighborhood.

Auditions for the play are open to all. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. We love to have multiple family generations working together, so bring your grandparents or your kids and neighbors to audition for the play.

GOLDEN FLEECE Audition times & locations:

Sunday, July 12
6:30 – 9:30pm
Ink People Center for the Arts
411 12 St, Eureka, CA

Monday, July 13
6:30 – 9:30pm
Ink People Center for the Arts
411 12 St, Eureka, CA

Tuesday, July 14
1:30 – 4:30pm, or by appointment
St. Bernard’s Elementary School
115 Henderson St, Eureka, CA

Call 1-800-385-7791 and leave a message if these audition times don’t work for you.

Callback Auditions are on
Tuesday, July 14
6 – 9pm
St. Bernard’s Elementary School
115 Henderson St, Eureka, CA

Rehearsals are from July 16 through August 6. Performances are on August 6, 7, & 8 at 8:30pm at the Blue Ox Millworks & Historic Park

For more information, call 1-800-385-7791. For more information on the Institute in Eureka, click here.

*For Cornerstone friends & fans who don’t live in Eureka: you can fly into Arcata/Eureka Airport (ACV) with direct flights from Los Angeles. The drive into Humboldt County from the north or south on the Redwood Highway stretch of Hwy 101 is quite special!  There are many lodging options depending on your interests and length of stay in Eureka & the county.  Some suggestions representing a variety of price ranges and amenities include:  The Best Western Bayshore Inn, Motel 6, Quality Inn, Roadway Motel  and the Eagle House Inn (an historic building in old town Eureka).

Thank you to everyone who came out to see Touch the Water, a River Play. Our four-week run ended with a bang with SOLD OUT houses the entire closing weekend! Cornerstone relies on your support and thanks you for meeting us down by the River!

What did the critics say about Touch the Water?

"Smartly staged along the river...the found-art production elements in Julie Hébert's play spell fun from the start...[Touch the Water] yields lovely surprises and fantastic images along with its earnest lyricism...and it does this with an egalitarian aesthetic and all-inclusive energy that's signature Cornerstone"
- Backstage

"Playwright Julie Hébert and director Juliette Carrillo fashion a beguiling and technically complex theater piece...in the middle of literally nowhere, the company conjures up a riparian milieu so encompassing of its surroundings, from the arresting riffle of white water rejoining the main channel in the dark waters below to the nearby hills filled with city lights and busy streets, it puts Imax to shame."
- EDGE Los Angeles

"{A} climactic coup de théâtre...[with] stunning moment(s) of spine-tingling magic that is the raison d'être of site-specific theater."
- LA Weekly

We are in the midst of The Justice Cycle, a series of six world premiere plays designed around the question of how laws create and disrupt communities. How do laws bind us together? How do laws tear us apart? Following our five-year Faith-Based Cycle, our hope is that this cycle will challenge our company, audiences and community partners alike to examine our beliefs about how justice functions in our society.