In the ten or so years I’ve been doing theater journalism, I’ve probably seen close to one thousand shows, with about one-third of them being productions of Mamma Mia! (The Addams Family Musical is rapidly approaching that number.) Lately, the repetitive nature of theater programming has been getting to me. I have found it difficult…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 13 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Development Director Thom Butler and Theatre Programmer Aldo Billingslea from Healdsburg’s ‘The 222’. Thom filled us in on what ‘The 222’ is all about while Aldo discussed their production of My Name is Asher Lev. Click below…
North Bay audiences finally got a chance to say “hello” to Dolly Gallagher Levi after the curtain rose on the bureaucratically-delayed Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Veteran director Elly Lichenstein makes her Spreckels debut with the Jerry Herman classic now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Oct 15. …
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 6 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Marty Pistone and actor Skylar Evans from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 28 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Elly Lichenstein and Sheri Lee Miller from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Due to some administrative issues, the show’s scheduled September 29 opening has been temporarily delayed. Click the link at the bottom of…
I have a soft spot for Fiddler on the Roof. The 1971 film adaptation was the first movie musical I saw on the big screen, and I made my musical stage debut as Motel the Tailor nine years later in a Millville Senior High School production. I can still recite the lyrics of “Miracle of…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 21 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Reed Martin and Austin Aquino-Harrison from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Clue On Stage (NOT Clue the Musical). Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 14 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Michael Girts from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
The Addams Family first appeared on the scene in 1938 in a series of single panel comics drawn by cartoonist Charles Addams and published in the New Yorker magazine and has been a presence in American pop culture ever since. Fairly dark and macabre in nature, the original tone was lightened significantly for the 1960’s…
The proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” takes on added meaning for those rearing a child with special needs or chronic illnesses. The usual ‘village’ of family and friends grows exponentially as caregivers and support services enter the mix. It’s a world with which playwright Amy Herzog is very familiar. Mary Jane is…
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