I doubt any of the tykes attending the 6th Street Playhouse production of Annie have any idea of its origins as a newspaper comic strip which ran for 86 years. Their exposure undoubtably comes from the 1982 film or its television remakes which all have their genesis from the 1977 Broadway musical. That the show…
My guests on the Thursday, December 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were David Templeton, comedian Oliver Graves, and actor Charles Siebert from David Templeton’s upcoming Twisted Christmas Live!, a fundraiser for the theatre and youth programs of the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. Click below to listen: **********
For Marin audiences seeking some live holiday-themed entertainment, local theatre companies are presenting a couple of non-traditional seasonal shows. Audiences can choose between an ecclesiastical musical and a one-man holiday reminiscence. In 1985, writer/composer Dan Goggin adapted his line of greeting cards that featured nuns saying outrageous things into a cabaret show and then an…
Movies and television have long been a haven for sequels and spin-offs. Live theatre? Not so much. Which is why it’s interesting that North Bay theatres have programmed three such shows for the holiday season. Marin Theatre Company is presenting the latest installment of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Christmas at Pemberley extensions of Pride…
Calling Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes a “family” show – while accurate – is not entirely truthful. Calling it a “fucked-up family” show would be infinitely more precise. The jet-black comedy is running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West through December 16. Meet Mrs. Pascal (Laura Jorgensen), the matriarch of a family that has…
My guests on the Thursday, November 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were composer Janis Dunson Wilson and Spreckels Theatre Company Artistic Director Sheri Lee Miller from the Spreckels production of The Tailor of Gloucester. Click below to hear that interview: **********
In 2016, the Marin Theatre Company participated in the “rolling” world premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. The ‘continuation’ of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was born, according to Gunderson, of the playwrights’ desire “to write something fun, grand, female-driven, and hopeful but with that wonderful wit and complication…
Once upon a time, way back in the summer of 2003, Bohemian contributor David Templeton and producer Dan Zastrow were having a conversation about a strange Christmas story that David had written. “You know what would be cool?”, David said, “Maybe someday finding some interesting people to gather on stage and read a bunch of…
It may seem odd that a play that opens with a boy having his dog put to sleep turns out to be such a life affirming piece, but that’s just one of the quirks of Every Brilliant Thing, running now at Left Edge Theatre at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts through December 9.…
My guest on a Special Wednesday theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Ron Severdia from the Left Edge Theatre production of Every Brilliant Thing. Click below to hear that interview: **********
North Bay Stage and Screen 