KSRO Interview – “Heisenberg”
My guests on the Thursday, January 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Argo Thompson and John Craven from the Left Edge Theatre production of Heisenberg. Click below to listen: **********
Review: “Heisenberg” in Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre kicks off the New Year with Simon Stephens’s Heisenberg. The two-character dramedy about a May – December romance runs through Feb. 2. The title does not refer to either character, but to German physicist Werner Heisenberg. The Nobel Prize winner is best known for his 1927 uncertainty principle that, in…
Marin’s Top Torn Tickets of 2019
Compared to neighboring counties, Marin has relatively few regularly-producing theatre companies. Ah, but quantity does not equal quality as my ‘Top Torn Tickets for 2019’ list proves. Here, in alphabetical order, are the best and/or most interesting works done in the past year by that handful of Marin-based companies: A Bright New Boise (College of…
Raven Players Announces Winners of Short Play Festival Competition
Healdsburg’s Raven Players has announced the selections for their first annual Raven Short Play Festival. The competitive festival, themed “Love Bites,” will produce the 15 winning short plays February 27, 28, 29, and March 1, 2020 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. The 10-minute plays represent an eclectic variety of comedy, farce, drama,…
KSRO Interview: “Polar Bears”
My guests on the second of two theatre segments on the Thursday, December 5 broadcast of KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were David Templeton and Mark Bradbury from the Left Edge Theatre Company production of Polar Bears. Click below to listen: **********
KSRO Interview: “It’s a Wonderful Life”
My guest on the first of two theatre segments on the Thursday, December 5 broadcast of KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Lois Pearlman from the Pegasus Theater Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life, a Live Radio Play. Click below to listen: **********
Review: “Middletown” in Kentfield
Welcome to Middletown. Population: stable. Elevation: same. The main street is called Main Street. The side streets are named after trees. Things are fairly predictable. People come; people go. That paraphrasing of some of the introductory dialogue from Middetown, running now at the College of Marin through December 8, is as much of a plot…
Preview: Sonoma & Napa Holiday Theatre
‘Tis the season for holiday-themed shows to take center stage at many North Bay theatres. Family-friendly musicals continue to be the go-to choices of a lot of companies, but there are a few offering a break to those who’ve grown weary of the Christmas music thrust upon them since late September. Lauren Gunderson and Margot…
Review: “Mother of the Maid” in Mill Valley
What’s a mother to do when her daughter says she hears the voice of an angel instructing her to lead an army to war? ‘Love her unconditionally’ is the short answer provided by playwright Jane Anderson in Mother of the Maid, running at Marin Theatre Company through Dec. 15. The tale of Joan of Arc…
Review: “Bluff” in San Rafael
Writers have been dressing up the “boy meets girl, boy loses girl” trope for centuries now from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to every Hallmark Channel movie. Playwright Jeffrey Sweet took his shot at it twenty years ago with Bluff, running now at The Belrose in San Rafael through November 16. Sweet, long connected with Chicago…
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