Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, running now at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse through February 23, may not be his best play (that’s Death of a Salesman) or even close to his most produced work (probably The Crucible). What it is is a punch-to-the-gut look at of one man’s destructive obsession and the…
My guest on the Thursday, February 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was David Yen from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Urinetown, the Musical. Click below to listen: **********
A vacant downtown San Rafael storefront is being haunted by the Ghosts of Bogotá. They are characters in playwright Diana Burbano’s darkly comic autobiographical look at a group of siblings dealing with some disturbing family history. It’s AlterTheater Ensemble’s latest “pop-up theatre” and runs through Feb. 23. Siblings Lola (Livia Gomes Demarchi), Sandy (Carla Pauli),…
The travails of women at the opposite ends of life are the focus of two very entertaining productions running now at opposite ends of the county. Healdsburg’s Raven Players presents Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves through Feb. 9 while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is presenting David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord through Feb. 16. The cavernous Raven Performing Arts Center…
There is no more quintessential piece of American theatre than Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Written in 1938 and set decades earlier, Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the inhabitants of small-town America has become a staple of school drama programs and community theatres. The Novato Theater Company has a production running through February 16. The play’s…
My guests on the Thursday, January 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein. Kate Brickley, and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of Ripcord. Click below to listen: **********
Argus-Courier’s film-loving “Millennials” on stage for live screening: Three of the four local film reviewers responsible for the Argus- Courier’s weekly “Millennials Talk Cinema” columns will take to the stage on Feb. 13, at 7 p.m., for a (no doubt) lively post-film conversation following a screening of the science-fiction film “Her,” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy…
There are three kinds of people. The people who love Thornton Wilder’s classic play “Our Town,” the people who hate it, and the people who’ve yet to decide because they’ve never actually seen a production of it. For the record, I’m one of the first ones. I love “Our Town.” I can even quote whole…
WRITTEN BY CLARK MILLER Professional clown and actor James Pelican will make his debut as a director on Friday, Jan. 31, with Cinnabar Theater’s production of “Ripcord.” The dark comedy is by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, best known for the screenplay of the 2010 film adaptation of his Pulitzer-winning play “Rabbit Hole,” starring Nicole Kidman. A…
The specter of World War I rears its ugly head once again on a North Bay stage with the Sonoma Arts Live presentation of Enchanted April. Matthew Barber’s adaptation of Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel runs through February 9. Lotty Wilton (Katie Kelley) dreams of escaping a grey and dreary post-war England and a loveless…
