My guests on the 02/27/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Ely Sonny Orquiza and dramaturg Estrella Gonzalez from the Sonoma State University School of Performing Arts production of Perfect Arrangement. We chatted about the show and the impact of the budget issues at SSU on the students and the program.…
For folks who think local theatre has gotten too repetitive, has Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse got a show for you. Groundhog Day: The Musical, based on the popular 1993 film starring Bill Murray, is running (and running, and running…) in their GK Hardt Theatre through Feb. 23. The show, with a book by the…
Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre continues to push the boundaries for North Bay theatre audiences with another provocative production, this time with a show whose title is usually redacted in print. Steven Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat runs at The California though February 22. Guirgis, who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
‘Six Degrees of Separation’ is the concept that every individual on the planet can be connected to every other individual through six or fewer social connections. First posited in the late 1920s, it entered the cultural lexicon via John Guare’s same-named play in 1990, so much so that a parlor game in which participants were…
For audiences who didn’t get their fill of Noël Coward with the recent Ross Valley Players production of Blithe Spirit, the Novato Theater Company is offering a second helping of Coward comedy with their production of Present Laughter. The show runs in Novato through February 16. But Coward purists beware. Audiences expecting a traditional production…
North Bay theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. Holiday-themed shows now give way to the usual mixture of comedies, dramas, and musicals from classics to contemporary works to a short play festival. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse gets things going in early…
Marin theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. The New Year in theatre begins with a classic comedy, a musical adaptation of a Sundance Film Festival favorite, and a political drama that was banned for decades in its native England. The Novato Theatre…
It’s time for this critic to take an end-of-year look back at local theatre. To start, I’m happy to report that no theatres closed in this area. As a matter of fact, there’s a new company in town with the formation of Petaluma’s Mercury Theater. So, continuing on that positive note, here, in chronological order,…
From the very first word uttered on stage in POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive’, it’s clear you are in for a very atypical Sonoma County theatre presentation. The word is number four on George Carlin’s list of seven dirty words, and you will hear it, along…
My guest on the 12/05/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Laura Downing-Lee, cast member from the Left Edge Theatre production of POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through December 21. Click below to listen:…
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