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,…
My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/24/25 on The Drive on 95.5 was Diane Dragone, Executive Director at Cinnabar Theater. Diane promoted Cinnabar’s Broadway Bash, a fundraiser featuring Broadway and film musical performer Liz Callaway. The Bash will help raise funds to build a new Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma. Diane…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were sound designer Jared Emerson-Johnson and cast member Amanda Vitiello from the Mercury Theater production of Meet Me at Dawn. The show runs in Petaluma through April 19. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
How interesting can a play be if it tells the story of an unremarkable person’s life told by that unremarkable person and the unremarkable people that surround them? How unremarkable? So unremarkable that playwright Simon Stephens doesn’t even give them names in his cast list for Morning Sun, now playing in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Joe Gellura and actor Elliot Davis from the Raven Players production of The Bridges of Madison County. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through March 30. Click below to listen: **********…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Chuck Noland and actor Robert Bauer from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of 1984. The show runs in Cloverdale through March 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
The name Clifford Odets probably means little to the modern theatregoer, but there was a time he was considered a titan of American theatre, fitting somewhere in between Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller. His “working class dramas” of the 1930s (like Waiting for Lefty) were extremely popular with audiences and influential with up and coming…
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