My guest on the April 4 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Brad Surosky, Executive Director at Transcendence Theatre Company, for a discussion of the changes in store for the company this year and a preview of their “Broadway in Sonoma” season. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
If an asteroid was headed straight for Earth and the total destruction of the planet imminent, would you: a) Head for home and the family b) Head for church and prayer c) Head for a bar and a trivia contest If you answered “c”, then Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has a show for you.…
My guests on the March 29 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Steven Lasiter and Jennifer Barnaba from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Million Dollar Quartet. The show runs in Santa Rosa through May 4. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Healdsburg’s Raven Players is one of the few local companies to wear the phrase “community theater” as a badge of honor. Absent a delusion of grandeur and pretenses of ‘Broadway quality’, the Players simply make the commitment to be a place that all are welcome, both on and off the stage. Their casts are frequently…
My guests on the March 22 “Theatre Thursday” (on Friday) segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Craig Peoples and Waylon Hessler from the Raven Players production of The Wizard of Oz. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through April 7. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle announced the nominations for their 47th Excellence in Theatre Awards and North Bay theatre companies received 59 nominations over 18 categories. Active since 1976, the Circle rewards excellence in all phases of theatrical production through the Circle’s annual awards. The Circle eliminated gender distinction in their performance…
My guests on the March 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Clark Lewis and Jared Wright from the Roustabout Theater production of Uncle Vanya. The show runs at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa through March 31. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
If live theatre, which is in crisis, ends up in a doom spiral, it won’t be for a lack of talent and energy from the current generation of performing artists. The stages at College of Marin and Santa Rosa Junior College recently hosted productions featuring some very good work by their youthful casts. Napa Valley…
My guests on the March 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Libby Oberlin and David L. Yen from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Book of Will. The show runs in Santa Rosa through March 30. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Gender fluidity flows like the Russian River after a torrential rain in the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Department production of Orlando. Laura Downing-Lee directs the Sarah Ruhl-penned adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel. The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre in the Burbank Auditorium on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus through…
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