There may be no more venerable fictional character than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. From his first appearance in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet through a series of Hollywood adaptations and innumerable British television series, the deerstalker cap-clad detective and his associate Dr. Watson have entertained audiences for well over a century. The character…
2021 was supposed to be the year that live theatre came roaring back, and it did… for a while. By the end of the year, that roar had been replaced by a hacking cough symptomatic of exposure to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Theatres once again began to cancel or postpone performances as casts…
As TV regularly demonstrates, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol can be adapted into just about any scenario. For theatre, just take the plot points and characters, plop them into a modern-day situation and locale, add some songs and – voila! – instant Christmas show! It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s basically what…
Folks looking for some live holiday entertainment can check out a couple of seasonal sequels now on stage in the North Bay. The Marin Theatre Company is hosting the premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s sequel to their sequel of their sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 18 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Michael Ross and Maeave Smith from the upcoming Sonoma Arts Live productions of Plaid Tidings & Winter Wonderettes. Click below to listen: ***********
My “Theatre Thursday” guest on a special Tuesday, November 16 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Brian Herndon from the upcoming 6th Street Playhouse production of Scrooge in Love! Click below to listen: ***********
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 11 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Allie Nordby and Dale Leonhart from the upcoming Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley. Click below to listen: ***********
Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, running at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through Nov. 21, is a tough play to synopsize. The show opens in the living room of the suburban New Jersey home of Jane and Michael (Angela Squire and Anthony Martinez). They are gathered around their coffee table with…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 4 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Sandra Ish, Abbey Lee and Jewel Ramos from the Left Edge Theatre production of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage. Click below to listen: ***********
Directors will often change the setting or time period of an older, well-known play in the hopes of making it more accessible to contemporary audiences. Modernized Shakespeare plays are usually the best examples of this practice. Similarly, the Novato Theater Company has taken Oscar Wilde’s community-theatre staple The Importance of Being Earnest and plopped it…
