My guest on the June 13 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Patrick Nims, director of the 6th Street Playhouse production of Kinky Boots. The show runs in the Playhouse’s GK Hardt Theatre through July 7. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for more information.
My guest on the June 6 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Tony Gonzalez, Artistic Director at Transcendence Theatre Company. Tony previewed Summertime!, the upcoming opening production of Transcendence’s “Broadway in Sonoma” series. The show opens June 20 at the Field of Dreams in Sonoma. Click below to hear the interview: **********…
North Bay theaters seem to be in the middle of a Karen Zacarías mini-festival with the Ross Valley Players well-received run of the playwright’s The Book Club Play coming to an end while Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse is in the middle of their run of Native Gardens. Both plays poke fun at suburban life…
My guests on the May 30 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Michael Tabib and Wanda Weimar from the Curtain Call Theatre production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane. The show runs at the Russian River Hall in Monte Rio through June 22. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for more…
In a London in the not-too-distant future, the British government has imposed a strict limitation on the number of words any individual can speak in a twenty-four-hour time period. That’s the basic premise of Sam Steiner’s Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons. The “whys?” for the limitations are barely addressed (and the “hows?” never are) in…
The last few years have been exceedingly challenging for the theatre community, and Mill Valley’s Mountain Play is no different. “Since 2019 the Mountain Play has been weathering storms,” said Executive Director Eileen Grady, “both literal and figurative. From the climate crisis to employment law changes to the pandemic and its aftershocks, we’ve been through…
My guests on an extended May 23 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Argo Thompson and Serena Elize Flores from the Left Edge Theatre production of Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa though June 8. Click below to hear the interview about the show.…
It’s been more than forty years since Harvey Fierstein exploded into our cultural consciousness with Torch Song Trilogy. At a time when being gay could get you thrown out of the military and the concept of marriage equality was considered a fantasy, the story of a gay man (and a drag queen at that) searching…
My guests on the May 16 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ron Smith and Lexus Fletcher from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Native Gardens. The show runs on the 6th Street Playhouse’s Monroe Stage from May 24 though June 16. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
“Is this funny? I think it’s sad.” That comment was murmured from one audience member to her seatmate after other audience members chuckled at the recent Mother’s Day matinee performance of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The Raven Players production runs through May 26 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. It’s a…
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