My guests on the Thursday, November 14 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Evan Held and Zane Walters from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Click below to listen: **********
Writers have been dressing up the “boy meets girl, boy loses girl” trope for centuries now from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to every Hallmark Channel movie. Playwright Jeffrey Sweet took his shot at it twenty years ago with Bluff, running now at The Belrose in San Rafael through November 16. Sweet, long connected with Chicago…
Local theatres seem to be in a New York state of mind with two very different shows set in the Big Apple running on North Bay stages. 6th Street Playhouse brings the somewhat ironically titled Wait Until Dark to their Monroe Stage while Left Edge Theatre puts their audiences somewhere Between Riverside and Crazy. Wait…
If being hit on the head by a piece of sponge form toast or across the face by a flying condom isn’t your cup of tea, then perhaps you’ll want to avoid Marin Musical Theatre Company’s The Rocky Horror Show, which has two remaining performances at The Playhouse in San Anselmo on All Hallows’ Eve.…
My guest on the Thursday, October 17 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Sheri Lee Miller, Artistic Director of the Spreckels Theatre Company, to discuss their current production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, October 10 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor from the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet’s Big Night (a prequel) at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. Click below to listen: **********
When Little Shop of Horrors opened in New York in 1982, it was in a small 98-seat Off-Off-Broadway theatre. Its success led to its move Off-Broadway to Manhattan’s 299-seat Orpheum Theatre where it ran for five years. It had a chance to move to the Great White Way, but playwright/lyricist Howard Ashman felt the show…
