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…
Several hundred costume-clad theatre goers filled the Santa Rosa Junior College’s Burbank Auditorium on Halloween night for the opening of their production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. This was quite a change from my initial Rocky Horror experience in 1978 when my brother and three of our friends were joined by just one…
My guests on the 10/31/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Janis Dunson Wilson and Molly Larsen-Shine from the upcoming Mercury Theater of Petaluma presentation of With a Scene and a Song. The show is an evening of musical theater songs and theater scene excerpts from some of your favorite shows. It’s…
My guests on the 10/24/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Alex Delzell and Austin Aquino-Harrison from the upcoming Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. The show opens on the SRJC Burbank Auditorium Main Stage in Santa Rosa on Halloween night and runs through…
My guests on the 10/17/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Lexus Fletcher and Reilly Milton from the Left Edge Theatre production of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord. The production runs through November 9 at The California in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the…
Reviewing a mystery/thriller is always a challenge. One wants to leave a play’s twists and turns for the audience to discover on their own, but in evaluating the play one can’t but help give a bit away. This is my way of saying this entire review should be prefaced with a ‘spoiler alert’. You have…
My guest on the 10/10/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Nikko Kimzin, founder of Kimzin Creative and developer of the Kimzin Creative BIPOC Producers Lab in collaboration with Creative Sonoma. The lab is an innovative, nine-month professional development program designed to foster the growth and success of two emerging Sonoma County-based…
As a graduate of a University Theatre Arts program, I well remember how important it was to have an audience fill the seats at our performances. Having an audience, a real audience (not just one composed of friends and family and students looking for some easy extra credit for their English class) made all the…
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