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…
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.
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…
My guests on the January 25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sky Hernandez-Simard and Andrea Chavez from the Raven Players production of Chimichangas and Zoloft. The show runs in Healdsburg through February 11. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
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…
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…
My guest on the January 4 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Diane Dragone, Executive Director of Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater, for a conversation about their planned relocation. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information.
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…
Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater has announced their plan to relocate after 50+ years in the “Little Red Schoolhouse” on the hill. The company’s website announced the following: “Cinnabar is at a crossroads after five decades of producing shows. The infrastructure of our current space, built in 1908, cannot support modern theater technology, limiting the scope of…
Live theatre continues to struggle to find its footing in a post pandemic world. The year was marked by audience numbers still failing to return to pre-pandemic levels, the use of understudies becoming more prevalent as a way to reduce cancellations due to COVID, the passing of some beloved members of the local theatre community,…
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