‘Tis the time for “Best of …” lists, so in the spirit of my illustrious predecessor and with a nod to the substantial differences in mounting a musical versus a play, here are my top torn tickets of 2018 – Part One, the Plays (in alphabetical order): Blackbird – (Main Stage West) – As dark subject…
Dear Evan Hansen, I attended the opening night performance of the San Francisco run of your national tour at the Curran Theatre. I’ve heard a lot about your show – the six Tonys (including Best Musical) and the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. I’ve seen the songs performed on various television shows and many…
My guest on a special Wednesday, December 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Carmen Mitchell from the Redwood Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play. Click below to listen: **********
For Marin audiences seeking some live holiday-themed entertainment, local theatre companies are presenting a couple of non-traditional seasonal shows. Audiences can choose between an ecclesiastical musical and a one-man holiday reminiscence. In 1985, writer/composer Dan Goggin adapted his line of greeting cards that featured nuns saying outrageous things into a cabaret show and then an…
Calling Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes a “family” show – while accurate – is not entirely truthful. Calling it a “fucked-up family” show would be infinitely more precise. The jet-black comedy is running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West through December 16. Meet Mrs. Pascal (Laura Jorgensen), the matriarch of a family that has…
It may seem odd that a play that opens with a boy having his dog put to sleep turns out to be such a life affirming piece, but that’s just one of the quirks of Every Brilliant Thing, running now at Left Edge Theatre at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts through December 9.…
My guest on a Special Wednesday theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Ron Severdia from the Left Edge Theatre production of Every Brilliant Thing. Click below to hear that interview: **********
When after sixteen years David Templeton hung up his theater critic’s hat, his stated purpose was to turn his full attention to other pursuits: artistic, journalistic, theatrical and otherwise. Since then, he continues to write, has a full-time gig as the Community Editor at the Petaluma Argus-Courier, and took a featured role in Left Edge…
My guests on the Thursday, November 8 theatre segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon were actor/director John Rowan and actor Noel Yates from the Pegasus Theater production of The New Century. Click below to hear that interview: **********
I don’t know anyone who attends theatre to reinforce their belief that life is simply a series of travails to be endured until the sweet release of death, but if you’re out there, have I got show for you. Birdbath Theatres is presenting Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in a new adaptation by Jesse Brownstein, directed…
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