Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center has been transformed into a high school gymnasium dolled up for the prom for their presentation of Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes. The nostalgic jukebox musical runs through Mar. 13. It’s 1958 and Springfield High’s Songleader Squad has been asked to entertain at the Senior Prom. The four perky…
My guests on the March 3 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Clark Lewis and Kate Brickley from the Roustabout Theater Company’s Professional Ensemble production of Apologia. Click below to listen: **********
North Bay playwright David Templeton has been named as one of five finalists for the 2022 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) New Play Award and Citations. The award and citations recognize the playwrights of the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2021. Templeton’s Galatea, which premiered at…
A “classic” is defined as something judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. In theatre, it can be a mark of a quality script that is at the mercy of the artists producing it. I’ve seen plenty of non-classic productions of classic plays. The Glass…
My guest on the February 24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Jenny Hollingworth, director of one of the short plays in Left Edge Theatre’s Hindsight 2022 International Festival of Short Plays. Click below to listen: **********
The name Maria Callas means little these days to people unversed in the world of opera, but to those in the know the American-born Greek soprano will always be “La Divina”. Callas passed away in 1977 at the age of 53. Memories of her might have faded completely from the stage but for playwright Terrence…
My guests on the Thursday, February 17 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Lulu Thompsxn and Rae Veraflor from the Left Edge Theatre production of Either. Click below to listen: **********
My guest on the Wednesday, February 16 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Joey Abrego, one of the stars of the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. Click below to listen: **********
Remember the good ol’ days when all a teenage boy had to worry about was being drafted into the military, trained to kill, shipped off to a foreign land, and die defending corporate interests in the name of democracy? Well, you can relive the grand old ‘60’s by attending the 6th Street Playhouse production of…
Uncomfortable. Amused. Depressed. Angry. Confused. Challenged. Hopeful. Those are all states of mind and emotions I experienced while sitting in the audience of Pass Over, the Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu play that’s in the middle of its West Coast Premiere run at the Marin Theatre Company. The show that reopened a pandemic-shuttered Broadway runs in Mill Valley…
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