Review: “Orlando” in Santa Rosa

Gender fluidity flows like the Russian River after a torrential rain in the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Department production of Orlando. Laura Downing-Lee directs the Sarah Ruhl-penned adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel. The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre in the Burbank Auditorium on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus through…

Interview – “Orlando” at SRJC

My guests on the February 29 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Colin Cameron and Lizzy Bies from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Orlando. The show opens on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus on March 1 and runs through March 10. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…

Interview – “Everybody” at Left Edge

My guests on the second of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Skylar Evans and Dana Hunt from the Left Edge Theatre production of Everybody. The show runs at the California in Santa Rosa through February 24. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the…

Interview – “In the Heights” at SSU

My guests on the February 1 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Dr. Lynne Morrow and Malik-Charles Wade from the Sonoma State University production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. The show runs in Rohnert Park through February 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.

Review: “Our Town” in Ross

Long before there was Jerry Seinfeld and his eponymous show about nothing, there was Thornton Wilder and his play about nothing. While Seinfeld mined the mundane in big-city living for often outrageous hilarity, Our Town took a gentler approach to the day-to-day minutiae of life in early twentieth-century small-town America. The Ross Valley Players have…