Much has been written about the recently released Steven Spielberg/Tony Kushner version of West Side Story. While the reviews have been rapturous, its box office can be described as lukewarm at best, and the term “flop” has been bandied around by some. Its failure to find an audience (at least so far) has been attributed…
As TV regularly demonstrates, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol can be adapted into just about any scenario. For theatre, just take the plot points and characters, plop them into a modern-day situation and locale, add some songs and – voila! – instant Christmas show! It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s basically what…
Fans of ‘50s and ‘60s pop music and the all-male or all-female groups that sang it looking to take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle might consider heading to Sonoma for some respite. Sonoma Arts Live is presenting Plaid Tidings and Winter Wonderettes in “rep”, two jukebox musicals draped in holiday trimmings that…
The ghost of an English author passed haunts North Bay theaters this holiday season with a couple of Charles Dickens-inspired productions running on local stages. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse presents the musical Scrooge in Love! through Dec. 19. It’s Christmas Eve again and Ebenezer Scrooge (Brian Herndon) has spent the past year living a…
If you’ve been enjoying the Christmas at Pemberley series this year (and all three productions are currently running in Northern California), you might want to avail yourself of the opportunity to hear the co-author of those shows (with Margot Melcon) live, in conversation with educator Mary Ellen Hunt. It’s part of the Friends of the…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the December 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Ivy Rose Miller and Missy Weaver for a discussion about the Main Stage West production of Late, a Cowboy Song. Click below to listen: ***********
Folks looking for some live holiday entertainment can check out a couple of seasonal sequels now on stage in the North Bay. The Marin Theatre Company is hosting the premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s sequel to their sequel of their sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley…
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