My guests on the January 11 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Jourdán Olivier-Verdé and actor Keene Hudson from the 6th Street Playhouse production of August Wilson’s Fences. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 4. *Note – Technical difficulties prevented the entire interview from being recorded, but here is…
Just aside the Bohemian Highway on the outskirts of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it hamlet of Monte Rio sits the Russian River Hall. For fifteen years, it’s hosted the productions of Curtain Call Theatre, a company comprised of a dedicated group of local volunteers who bring live theatre of all sorts to the West County. The productions usually…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the November 2 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Jim Frankie Banks, Daniel Marchbanks, and Liddy Freeman from the Revolving Theatre production of The Dutchman at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse continues to provide trips down memory lane for this reviewer. Their recent production of Fiddler on the Roof made me harken back to my days in high school theatre, while their current production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow plunged me further back into my youth. The West Coast premiere…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 20 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Director David Yen and actor Justin Thompson from the Left Edge Theatre production of Ideation running now at The California Theatre in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
In the ten or so years I’ve been doing theater journalism, I’ve probably seen close to one thousand shows, with about one-third of them being productions of Mamma Mia! (The Addams Family Musical is rapidly approaching that number.) Lately, the repetitive nature of theater programming has been getting to me. I have found it difficult…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 13 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Development Director Thom Butler and Theatre Programmer Aldo Billingslea from Healdsburg’s ‘The 222’. Thom filled us in on what ‘The 222’ is all about while Aldo discussed their production of My Name is Asher Lev. Click below…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 14 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Michael Girts from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
The proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” takes on added meaning for those rearing a child with special needs or chronic illnesses. The usual ‘village’ of family and friends grows exponentially as caregivers and support services enter the mix. It’s a world with which playwright Amy Herzog is very familiar. Mary Jane is…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the August 31broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were cast members Mary DeLorenzo and Mercedes Murphy from the Left Edge Theatre production of Mary Jane. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
North Bay Stage and Screen 