My guests on the August 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Justin Thompson and Mari Pagan from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) continues in Santa Rosa with this second of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th…
My guests on the July 24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were David Lear and Ally Bray from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s Othello. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) returns to Santa Rosa with this first of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot.…
My guest on the July 17 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Daniel Savio, composer/lyricist/musician and Musical Director for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production, Disruption. The show is playing at various venues throughout Northern California, including at La Plaza Park in Cotati on July 27. Click below to hear the…
by Beulah F. Vega San Francisco’s Magic Theatre is just a quick hop over the Golden Gate and should be on the radar of every North Bay theatre lover. Their current production of Luis Alfaro’s Aztlán, which they commissioned, has had its run extended through July 20. Kinan Valdez directs the story which flits between…
My guests on the 06/19/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Jared Emerson-Johnson, President of the Board of Mercury Theater of Petaluma, and mezzo-soprano/actress Leandra Ramm. Leandra is currently appearing in the one-act operas Trouble in Tahiti and Service Provider, running in tandem at Mercury Theater in Petaluma through June 22. Click…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has conspired with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop to drag Shakespeare out of the parking lot and back into the comfy confines of a black box theater with their co-production of Hamlet. Their truncated version of what no less an authority than Laurence Olivier called “the tragedy of a man who…
My guests on the 06/12/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Chris Schloemp from the 6th Street Playhouse/Jacobethan Theatre Workshop co-production of Hamlet. The show runs on the Monroe Stage of the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through June 21. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
by Beulah F. Vega 6th Street Playhouse, in collaboration with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, is presenting a ‘stripped down’ version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet on their Monroe Stage through Saturday, June 21. For those unfamiliar with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, it’s the company that for the last few years has produced “Shakespeare in the Parking…
My guests on the 06/05/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Megan Bartlett and David Bradbury from the Cinnabar Theater production of Bright Star. The musical runs at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park through June 29. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside is an odd play. It’s about people who may or may not exist and things that may or may not have happened. It’s a story being told about a story being told about a story being told. Confused? Maybe, maybe not. After a Tony Award-winning run on Broadway in 2019,…
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