Cinnabar Theater opens their 52nd season on the road with a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! Having vacated the little red schoolhouse on the hill in Petaluma while awaiting construction of their new theatre, Cinnabar is utilizing the Warren Auditorium at Sonoma State University for their mainstage performances. It runs there through…
Former Windsor resident Francine Schwartz has long remembered the stories her mother and grandmother told her about living in occupied France during World War II and of the German soldiers billeted in their home. For the last decade, she has been working on a piece based on her family history and what began as a…
by Bob Duxbury Heroes of the Fourth Turning caused a stir when it was first produced in 2019, not least because the normally liberal theater community produced an energetic defense of conservative Catholic doctrine adapted for popular consumption from the cerebral The Fourth Turning. The book, by William Strauss and Neil Howe, is a favorite…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/05/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Michael Girts from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop “Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot)” productions of Macbeth and As You Like It. The shows run in rep in the parking lot of the Arlene…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/05/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were playwright Francine Schwartz and director Steve David Martin from the Raven Players production of The Germans Upstairs. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater through September 15. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 08/29/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Amanda Claiborne and Ashley Kennedy from the Curtain Call Theatre production of God of Carnage. The show opens September 6 and runs through September 28. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
The predominant story in Bay Area theatre for the past year continues to be company closures and the regular announcement of emergency fund raisers to stave off further closures. No theatre company is immune to the financial pressures created by the combination of the increase in costs of doing business and the reduction of income…
The predominant story in Bay Area theatre in the past year continues to be company closures and the regular announcement of emergency fund raisers to stave off further closures. No theatre company is immune to the financial pressures created by the combination of the increase in costs of doing business and the reduction of income…
My guest on the August 15 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Eric Jackson, Conceiver/Director/Choreographer of Transcendence Theatre Company’s third production in their “Broadway in Sonoma” series. Dancing in the Street runs through August 18 at the Field of Dreams in Sonoma. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for…
My guests on the August 1 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Danny Bañales and Jackie Rosas from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of Our Lady of the Tortilla. The show runs at the Performing Arts Center from August 10 through August 25. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click…
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