Interview – “Everybody” at Left Edge

My guests on the second of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Skylar Evans and Dana Hunt from the Left Edge Theatre production of Everybody. The show runs at the California in Santa Rosa through February 24. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the…

Interview – “She Loves Me” in Santa Rosa

My guests on the first of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Lorenzo Alviso and Molly Larsen-Shine from the 6th Street Playhouse production of She Loves Me. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.

Review: “She Loves Me” in Santa Rosa

Seething drama gives way to light comedy at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse with their production of She Loves Me. The romantic musical comedy runs in the GK Hardt Theatre through Feb. 25. Based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, She Loves Me retains the basic storyline of co-workers who detest…

Interview – “In the Heights” at SSU

My guests on the February 1 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Dr. Lynne Morrow and Malik-Charles Wade from the Sonoma State University production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. The show runs in Rohnert Park through February 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.

Review: “Our Town” in Ross

Long before there was Jerry Seinfeld and his eponymous show about nothing, there was Thornton Wilder and his play about nothing. While Seinfeld mined the mundane in big-city living for often outrageous hilarity, Our Town took a gentler approach to the day-to-day minutiae of life in early twentieth-century small-town America. The Ross Valley Players have…

Interview – “Fences” at 6th Street Playhouse

My guests on the January 11 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Jourdán Olivier-Verdé and actor Keene Hudson from the 6th Street Playhouse production of August Wilson’s Fences. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 4. *Note – Technical difficulties prevented the entire interview from being recorded, but here is…

Review: “The Last Five Years” in Petaluma

North Bay theatre in 2024 kicked off with Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater and their production of the Jason Robert Brown musical The Last Five Years. It’s the first of four shows remaining in their season before they close up shop at the little red schoolhouse on the hill and go on the road as a proposed…

2023’s Top Torn Tix, the Plays!

While musicals may be the bread and butter of local theatre, much can be learned about a community through the plays programmed in a company’s season. Comedies seemed few and far between this year, which may be a reflection of our local and perhaps national feelings of unease with what’s going on in our schools…