Like an Elizabethan game of whack-a-mole, as soon as North Bay theatre companies knock out one outdoor summer Shakespeare production, another one seems to pop up. Marin Shakespeare brought us Pericles at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows amphitheater, the Raven did A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Healdsburg’s Seghesio Winery, and Shakespeare in the Cannery did Shakespeare…
Guests on the Thursday, August 16 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included playwright/director Jacinta Gorringe and actors Chazz Madeiros and Ella Jones from the Petaluma Shakespeare Company production of Speechless Shakespeare. Click below to hear that interview: *** Fore more information, got to petalumashakespeare.org
So, what’s former Spreckels Performing Arts Center Manager Gene Abravaya been doing since his retirement to the Arizona desert? “I’ve been enjoying my retirement and developing style and techniques for the abstract sculptures I am interested in designing,” he says. “Oh, and I’ve been working on a new play.” That play, The Trial of John…
Popular Broadway musicals are often inspired by classic books. For example, next month’s Spreckels Theater Company production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” written by Mark Haddon and adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens. Kander and Ebb’s ‘Cabaret,’ opening August 31 at Cinnabar Theater, is based on John Van Druten’s…
Guests on the Thursday, August 9 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon with guest host David Templeton included director Diane Bailey and actors Bohn Connor, Troy Evans and Kelly Considine from the Raven Players production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Click below to hear that interview: *** For more…
Relationships are front and center in two very different shows now running on North Bay stages through August 19. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center is presenting Heroes, playwright Tom Stoppard’s translation and adaptation of a 2003 French play about three World War I vets in a retirement home. Gustave (Robert Bauer), Henri (Peter Immordino), and…
Relationships are front and center in two very different shows now running on North Bay stages through August 19. Healdsburg’s Raven Players have converted the cavernous Raven Theatre into an intimate black box performance space and are presenting an updated version of 1996’s I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. The Joe DiPietro and Jimmy…
Transcendence Theatre Company’s seventh season of “Broadway Under the Stars” continues with a dance-centric production entitled, appropriately enough, Shall We Dance. The show runs through August 19 at Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen. Transcendence imports Broadway and national touring professionals to populate their productions so the caliber of performance is always quite…
My guests on the Thursday, August 2 segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Transcendence Theatre Company Co-Executive Director Stephan Stubbins and performer Lori Haley Fox from the Broadway Under the Stars production of Shall We Dance. Click below to hear that interview. *** For more information, go to bestnightever.org Photos by Ray Mabry
‘Tis the season for Shakespeare al fresco so pack a picnic, grab a blanket and check out these North Bay productions: Marin Shakespeare closes out its season under the stars with Pericles, a play whose authorship by Shakespeare has fostered many a debate. Plot points include incest, assassination, famine, a shipwreck, marriage, maternal death, familial…
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