My guests on the Thursday, February 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein and John Shillington from the Cinnabar Theater production of Underneath the Lintel. Click below to listen: **********
When Joe Orton’s Loot opened in Cambridge, England in 1965 it created such a scandal that the Lord Chamberlain, England’s official theatre “censor” until 1968, ordered revisions and deletions before it could run on London’s West End. It’s running now at the Novato Theater Company through February 10. Orton’s look at the savage hypocrisy beneath…
To see or not to see? That is the question. Anyone with even the slightest interest in theatre has probably seen a production or two of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in their lifetime. Considered by many to be Shakespeare’s – if not the world’s – greatest play, it’s one-third ghost story, one-third dysfunctional family drama, and…
My guests on the Thursday, January 31 theatre segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Lynne Morrow, Rachel Levin and Noah Evans from the Sonoma State University production of Sweeney Todd. Click below to listen: **********
Mysteries and thrillers present interesting challenges for critics. We want to give audiences enough of an idea of the plot to pique their interest without giving away any of the twists, turns and surprises audiences should discover for themselves. Well, here goes. Playwright Sidney Bruhl, once a successful writer of theatrical thrillers, is tired of…
Serial killing would seem to be rather ghoulish subject matter for a comedic play, yet Arsenic and Old Lace has been a reliable audience-pleaser for over seventy-five years. Sonoma Arts Live has a production running through February 10. Joseph Kesselring’s tale of the Brewster sisters and their penchant for helping lonely old men meet their…
My guests on a special Wednesday, January 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Keith Baker and Eric Thompson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hamlet. Click below to listen: **********
When playwright August Wilson passed away in 2005, he left behind a body of work that has become a staple of the American theatre. As much a documentarian as a poet and author, the ten plays (Jitney, Fences, et al.) of Wilson’s Century (or Pittsburgh) Cycle chronicle the twentieth century African-American experience mostly through the…
Theatre companies love to produce theatre about theatre. 6th Street Playhouse gets in the act with Ken Ludwig’s 1995 door-slamming farce Moon Over Buffalo, running through February 3. Buffalo’s Erlanger Theater is hosting the repertory company of George and Charlotte Hay (Dodds Delzell & Madeleine Ashe), grade-B actors and grade-A hams who never made it…
My guests on the Thursday, January 17 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Michael Ross and Karen Pinomaki from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Click below to listen: **********
North Bay Stage and Screen 