When something becomes popular enough to be successfully parodied, what made the original source material so popular tends to be forgotten. Case in point – the British murder mystery as exemplified by the works of Agatha Christie. Christie wrote 66 detective novels (many featuring the characters of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot), 14 short story…
Healdsburg’s Raven Players, located in the heart of the Northern California wine country, have announced they are accepting submissions for their inaugural Short Play Festival to run February 28 – March 1, 2020 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. The competitive festival is themed “Love Bites” and will feature plays of 10 to…
My guests on the Thursday, September 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Nathan Cummings and Michael McGurk from the Cinnabar Theater production of Little Shop of Horrors. Click below to listen: **********
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association has released the list of nominees for its 4th Annual MTJA Awards. The Association recognized the exemplary work of Sonoma County theater artists with nominations in eighteen categories that were culled from the sixty-eight productions attended by MTJA members. Recipients will be announced at the 2019 MTJA Awards – A Celebration…
While technically not set in a courtroom, Tom Topor’s Nuts, running now at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through Sept. 29, has all the elements of a classic courtroom drama – a defendant, a judge, a prosecuting attorney, a defense attorney, and witnesses. However, the question of Innocence or guilt of a crime is not…
My guest on the Thursday, September 5 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Lois Pearlman from the Pegasus Theater Company’s ‘Tapas’ New Short Play Festival. Click below to listen: **********
A recent New York Times headline asked the question “Can a Play About Vaccines Be a Laughing Matter?” Bay Area audiences can answer that question themselves by attending one of two current productions of the play in question – Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day. You can catch it Off-Broadway in New York, or you can go…
My guests on the Thursday, August 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elizabeth Craven and Eiko Yamamoto from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Eureka Day. Click below to listen: **********
For twenty years, Mill Valley’s Curtain Theatre has treated local audiences to admission-free, fully-produced Shakespeare plays performed in the small outdoor amphitheatre in Old Mill Park. Whether they will get to continue to do so is in the hands of city’s Parks and Recreation Commission as they deal with complaints from some neighbors who appear…
Perhaps the most mislabeled entertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV”. The belief that anything can be real in the presence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful at worst. That’s one of the themes at work in Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener running…
North Bay Stage and Screen 