My guest on a special Wednesday, December 19 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Jess Headington from the 6th Street Playhouse production of the 12 Dates of Christmas. Click below to listen: **********
One-person shows with a holiday theme tend to skew toward the male variety, whether it’s a show about a disgruntled department store Christmas elf (David Sedaris’s Santaland Diaries) or a single dad desperate to maintain the fiction of Santa Claus with his children (David Templeton’s Polar Bears). Even Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol has been…
There’s no more proven commodity for community theatres than Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. A reliable audience-pleaser since its 1965 Broadway debut, the story of mismatched roommates has been adapted for film and television numerous times and Simon himself rewrote it for an all-female cast. The Ross Valley Players production running through December 16 is…
My guest on a special Wednesday, December 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Carmen Mitchell from the Redwood Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, December 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were David Templeton, comedian Oliver Graves, and actor Charles Siebert from David Templeton’s upcoming Twisted Christmas Live!, a fundraiser for the theatre and youth programs of the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. Click below to listen: **********
For Marin audiences seeking some live holiday-themed entertainment, local theatre companies are presenting a couple of non-traditional seasonal shows. Audiences can choose between an ecclesiastical musical and a one-man holiday reminiscence. In 1985, writer/composer Dan Goggin adapted his line of greeting cards that featured nuns saying outrageous things into a cabaret show and then an…
Calling Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes a “family” show – while accurate – is not entirely truthful. Calling it a “fucked-up family” show would be infinitely more precise. The jet-black comedy is running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West through December 16. Meet Mrs. Pascal (Laura Jorgensen), the matriarch of a family that has…
It may seem odd that a play that opens with a boy having his dog put to sleep turns out to be such a life affirming piece, but that’s just one of the quirks of Every Brilliant Thing, running now at Left Edge Theatre at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts through December 9.…
My guest on a Special Wednesday theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Ron Severdia from the Left Edge Theatre production of Every Brilliant Thing. Click below to hear that interview: **********
For folks looking for some respite from Christmas shopping or from becoming participants in the demolition derby that is mall parking, North Bay theatre companies are providing several seasonal entertainments to help keep you in the holiday spirit. Family-friendly musicals are the usual fare and there are several on tap. While not all would be…
North Bay Stage and Screen 