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…
My guests on the Thursday, October 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Leslie McCauley, Haley Hollis, and Riley Craig from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Department production of Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor. Click below to listen: **********
Halloween comes early to North Bay stages with two productions more commonly seen around that particular holiday. Monte Rio’s Curtain Call Theatre recreates The Haunting of Hill House through Sep. 28 while Healdsburg’s Raven Players present the serial-killing comedy Arsenic and Old Lace through Sep. 29. Shirley Jackson’s 1958 novel The Haunting of Hill House…
In a recent conversation about on-stage diversity (and the lack thereof in the North Bay), a local theatre company’s Artistic Director posed this question: “When will you know when we’ve achieved it?” My response: “When I look at a cast photo and no one stands out.” A cast photo from the Marin Shakespeare Company production…
Two very different comedies are nearing the end of their runs on North Bay stages and both are worth catching if you can. Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is staging the popular musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors while Sebastopol’s Main Stage West is presenting Annie Baker’s Body Awareness. Both shows run through September 22. Baker’s play…
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