Review: “Orlando” in Santa Rosa

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…

Interview – “Orlando” at SRJC

My guests on the February 29 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Colin Cameron and Lizzy Bies from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Orlando. The show opens on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus on March 1 and runs through March 10. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…

Review: “Monty Python’s Spamalot” in Novato

It’s been almost 50 years since the antics of the British comedy troupe known as Monty Python’s Flying Circus were unleashed on an unsuspecting Texas audience by a Dallas PBS station. The BBC-produced series soon found a loyal American audience and a series of feature films followed. Python made it to Broadway in 2005 with…

Review: “Dream Hou$e” in Petaluma

Cinnabar Theater hosted one of five productions that opened in the North Bay last weekend.  Dream Hou$e, by Eliana Pipes, may be the least well-known among those five, but it is a show that should be seen. The production runs in Petaluma through February 25.  Sisters Julia and Patricia have agreed to sell their mother’s…

Interview – “Everybody” at Left Edge

My guests on the second of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Skylar Evans and Dana Hunt from the Left Edge Theatre production of Everybody. The show runs at the California in Santa Rosa through February 24. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the…

Interview – “She Loves Me” in Santa Rosa

My guests on the first of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Lorenzo Alviso and Molly Larsen-Shine from the 6th Street Playhouse production of She Loves Me. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.

Review: “She Loves Me” in Santa Rosa

Seething drama gives way to light comedy at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse with their production of She Loves Me. The romantic musical comedy runs in the GK Hardt Theatre through Feb. 25. Based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, She Loves Me retains the basic storyline of co-workers who detest…