Marin theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. The New Year in theatre begins with a classic comedy, a musical adaptation of a Sundance Film Festival favorite, and a political drama that was banned for decades in its native England. The Novato Theatre…
It’s time for this critic to take an end-of-year look back at local theatre. To start, I’m happy to report that no theatres closed in this area. As a matter of fact, there’s a new company in town with the formation of Petaluma’s Mercury Theater. So, continuing on that positive note, here, in chronological order,…
My guests on the 12/19/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club President Amy Thomason-Richardson, performer Ruby Rae Richardson, and director/choreographer Karen Kresge from the upcoming Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club production of A New Year’s Bash! Starring Snoopy. There are two shows only on Monday, December 30.…
My guests on the 12/12/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sheri Lee Miller and Drew Bolander from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. The show runs in Rohnert Park for three performances only from Dec. 13 – Dec. 15. Click below to listen:…
My guest on the 12/05/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Laura Downing-Lee, cast member from the Left Edge Theatre production of POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through December 21. Click below to listen:…
My guests on a special Wednesday edition of “Theatre Thursday” on The Drive on 95.5 were Caroline Flett and Ella Park from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical. The show runs in 6th Street Playhouse’s GK Hardt Theatre in Santa Rosa through December 22. Click below to listen: **********…
My guests on a special Monday edition of “Theatre Thursday” on The Drive on 95.5 were director Jenny Hollingworth and actor Nic Moore from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play . The show runs at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through December 15.…
My guests on the 11/14/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Nicholas Augusta, Lily Gibson, and Declan Hackett from the Raven Players production of Cinderella – A Family Holiday Panto. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through December 1. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
The holiday season will soon be upon us and with it a plethora of live theatre choices with which to escape pushy crowds, long lines, traffic, overbearing relatives, and the thought of what January 20, 2025 holds in store for our nation. There’s a conspicuous absence of productions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol this…
My guests on the 11/07/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ken Urso and Imri M. Tate from the upcoming CollabWERKS production of Midsummer. The show is a wild, immersive, theatrical dance party based (loosely) on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Nikko Kimzin. It’s being performed at The California in Santa…
North Bay Stage and Screen 