Two very different comedies are nearing the end of their runs on North Bay stages and both are worth catching if you can. Sebastopol’s Main Stage West is presenting Annie Baker’s Body Awareness while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is staging the popular musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. Both shows run through September 22. You can’t…
My guests on the Thursday, September 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Nathan Cummings and Michael McGurk from the Cinnabar Theater production of Little Shop of Horrors. Click below to listen: **********
Jonathan Spector, the award-winning, Oakland-based playwright of ‘Eureka Day,’ playing through September 22 at Rohnert Park’s Spreckels Performing Arts Center, will be attending this Saturday evening’s performance of his award-winning comedy-drama. Spector has recently returned from New York City, where ‘Eureka Day’ – which premiered last year at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre – had its East…
My guest on the Thursday, September 5 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Lois Pearlman from the Pegasus Theater Company’s ‘Tapas’ New Short Play Festival. Click below to listen: **********
A recent New York Times headline asked the question “Can a Play About Vaccines Be a Laughing Matter?” Bay Area audiences can answer that question themselves by attending one of two current productions of the play in question – Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day. You can catch it Off-Broadway in New York, or you can go…
My guests on the Thursday, August 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elizabeth Craven and Eiko Yamamoto from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Eureka Day. Click below to listen: **********
For twenty years, Mill Valley’s Curtain Theatre has treated local audiences to admission-free, fully-produced Shakespeare plays performed in the small outdoor amphitheatre in Old Mill Park. Whether they will get to continue to do so is in the hands of city’s Parks and Recreation Commission as they deal with complaints from some neighbors who appear…
Perhaps the most mislabeled entertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV”. The belief that anything can be real in the presence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful at worst. That’s one of the themes at work in Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener running…
Here are the 2018 – 2019 Sonoma County theatre season productions attended by members of the MTJA and under consideration for nomination for the 2019 MTJA Awards: Cabaret Cinnabar Arts Musical Savage Wealth Main Stage West Comedy The Curious Incident of the Dog … Spreckels Theatre Company Drama The Naked Truth Left Edge Theatre Comedy…
My guest on the Thursday, August 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Keiko Carreiro from the San Francisco Mime Troupe production of Treasure Island. Click below to listen: **********
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