Review: “Eureka Day” in Healdsburg

by Harry Duke * Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day is a play with deep Bay Area roots. Originally commissioned by Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre and performed in 2018, it won the 2019 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script and Theatre Bay Area’s Will Glickman Award for best new play to premiere in…

Interview – “Eureka Day” at Raven Players

My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 09/04/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Steven David Martin and Chelsea Jennings Bell from the Raven Players production of Eureka Day. The audience will join the cast on stage at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg from September 5 through September 28.…

Review: “Eureka Day” in Mill Valley

by Cari Lynn Pace * In Eureka Day, a multiculturally sensitive school set in Berkeley, enlightenment is virtuous and facts are probably suspicious. A mirror could reveal other hamlets where this theme reigns supreme. Whether you put your trust in the CDC, where RFK Jr. is the chief mountebank selling snake oil, or the medical…

Review: “Othello” in Santa Rosa

by Harry Duke * The “green-eyed monster” is running amok in the field next to the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production of Othello. The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 9, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, August 10, at 6:00 pm. …

Review: “Aztlán” in San Francisco

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…