My guests on the 05/22/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ginger Beavers and Drew Bolander from the “Bones” cast of the 6th Street Playhouse production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. The show runs in the GK Hardt Theatre at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through June 21.…
My guest on the 05/15/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was director Jennifer King from The 222’s production of The Burdens. The play runs through June 1 at The 222 which is located in the Paul Mahder Gallery in downtown Healdsburg. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
My guests on the 05/08/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Caroline Clark and Heather Berger from the Raven Players production of Home, I’m Darling. The play runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through May 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/24/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Lauren Heney and actor Drew Bolander from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The show runs on the Monroe Stage at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through May…
No less a source than the Mayo Clinic recommends laughter as a great source of stress relief and in these stressful times, two North Bay productions may be just what the doctor orders for local audiences. The SRJC Theatre Arts Department is presenting Neil Simon’s Rumors through April 27, while Sonoma Arts Live presents the…
Jerome Kern. Richard Rogers. Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen Sondheim. Jimmy Buffett. Something seems off there. Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Escape to Margaritaville. Something really seems off there. “Ol’ Man River”, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin”, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, “Cheeseburger in Paradise”. Ok, I think you see where this is going. In the pantheon of…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Dana Hunt and actor Dylan James Pereira from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Shark is Broken. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through April 11. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Theatrical adaptations of popular movies populate American theaters to an often-nauseating extent. Often transmogrified into musicals, producers mount them in the belief there’s a built-in audience guaranteed to show up and buy tickets en masse. While successful Bay Area runs of such shows as Mrs. Doubtfire and Back to the Future might be proving their…
My guests on the 03/06/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Shanay Howell and Tajai Britten from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Clyde’s. The show runs in Santa Rosa on the Monroe Stage at 6th Street Playhouse through March 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
I recently ventured out of my usual “sphere of attendance” of North Bay theatre after receiving an invitation from Contra Costa County’s Pittsburg Theatre Company to join them for their season opener. They’ve titled their season “Rising from the Ashes 2025” as they recover from a devasting warehouse fire where they basically lost everything from…
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