North Bay audiences seeking a little lightweight, somewhat-holiday-themed entertainment would do well to head out to Sebastopol and check out Ham for the Holidays. Written by Santa Rosa High School dropout-turned-game-show-contestant-turned-college-professor Shad Willingham, it runs at Main Stage West through Dec. 30. It’s Christmas Eve, 1939, and the tiny hamlet of Hamlin, GA is buried…
North Bay theatre companies continue to take illness-related hits with announced cancellations at three different companies. Sebastopol’s Main Stage West lost this weekend’s performances of Ham for the Holidays to an undisclosed illness. The company hopes to reopen the show on Thursday, December 22 and close with a final performance on Friday, December 30. Rohnert…
My guest on the December 15 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Keith Baker, Producing Artistic Director of Sebastopol’s Main Stage West for a conversation about their production of Ham for the Holidays and running a theatre company in the age of COVID. Click below to listen: **********…
Our guest on the second of two Theatre Thursday segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was David Templeton for a discussion of two upcoming performances of his one-man Christmas show Polar Bears as well as the return of his Twisted Christmas show as a benefit performance for comedian Will…
Play titles don’t get more succinct than The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong. You get both an approximate run time and a plot synopsis in six simple words. It’s an abridged version of The Play That Goes Wrong, which was itself expanded from its original one-act roots after becoming a hit in London where it…
Steve’s guest on the October 13 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was playwright David Templeton for a discussion about his “warm up” fundraising performances of Polar Bears. David is taking his autobiographical show to the United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC in late October. Click below…
If you’ve ever glanced at a flyer hanging from a community center bulletin board that offers an acting course and worried about the time commitment required, playwright Annie Baker’s got you covered. In Circle Mirror Transformation, now running at the Novato Theater Company through September 25, Baker covers in two hours what most courses do…
Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses is a difficult play to categorize. Is it a drama or a comedy? Realistic or surrealistic? Life-affirming or death-obsessed? The answer to all these questions is “yes”. You can decide for yourself by attending the Jolee & Too Soon Old production that’s running at the Playhouse in San Anselmo through…
My guests on the September 8 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were director Zachary Hasbany and cast member Tina Traboulsi from the Cinnabar Theater production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Marin County’s venerable Curtain Theatre returns to the Old Mill Park Amphitheatre in Mill Valley for their more-or-less annual offering of Shakespeare al fresco. This year it’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, what many consider the Bard’s first (but still lesser-known) play. If you find Shakespeare difficult to follow, fear not! The plot is fairly simple…
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