by Harry Duke If a dearth of penises and flatulence on North Bay stages has kept you from returning to live theatre, Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has got a show for you. It’s Taylor Mac’s Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus and it’s currently covering the stage of The California with blood, guts, and…
by Cari Lynn Pace Where do playwrights come up with the ideas for such laughable plots? Featherbaby, David Templeton’s latest play, features a young woman and her foul-mouthed and aggressively possessive parrot, a bird who schemes to separate its owner from her suitors. Just imagine Spreckels Theatre Company having a casting call to audition actors…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Phil Mutz, Ken Urso, and Danny Gorman from the THTR production of Gay Camp. The raucous 90 minute quick-change comedy will have one performance only on Saturday, August 30, at the R3 Hotel in Guerneville. Click below…
In Galatea, local playwright David Templeton examined humanity through the eyes of a synthetic human. In his latest play, Featherbaby, Templeton looks at humanity through the eyes of a… foul-mouthed parrot? Questions, questions, questions. Where does he come up with these things? Playwright David Templeton – “In my 20s, I had a girlfriend who owned…
By Harry Duke The Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) summer series concludes with a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Shakespeare comedy features one of the Bard’s greatest characters as well as the usual masquerading and comeuppances.The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 23, at 7:30 pm, and…
My guest on the August 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Lukas Raphael, Artistic Director of the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop. The JTW’s second Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production for this season is The Merry Wives of Windsor. It runs in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot…
by Harry Duke For years, Healdsburg’s Raven Players has been presenting a summer Shakespeare production “under the stars” at the perfectly serviceable but rather bland West Plaza Park. They’ve upgraded a bit this year by relocating to Bacchus Landing for their production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Wine & Event Center is hosting the…
Fans of the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be pleased to hear that the Broadway musical adaptation sticks pretty close to the Steve Martin/Michael Caine comedy. Sonoma Arts Live has a production directed by Carl Jordan running on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center through July 27. Suave and debonair con man Lawrence…
Werewolves prowl the North Bay courtesy of actor/director/screenwriter Daedalus Howell and his low-budget horror comedy Werewolf Serenade. Howell plays Professor Peter MacTire of Northern California’s Freestone School of the Arts (est. 1986) where he teaches really niche film genre night school classes to a handful of students. One evening, his class is interrupted by fellow…
My guest on the July 17 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Daniel Savio, composer/lyricist/musician and Musical Director for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production, Disruption. The show is playing at various venues throughout Northern California, including at La Plaza Park in Cotati on July 27. Click below to hear the…
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