Interview – “The Broadway Bash” at Cinnabar

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…

Review: “Morning Sun” in Rohnert Park

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…

Review: “Awake and Sing!” in Santa Rosa

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…

Interview – “Perfect Arrangement” at SSU

My guests on the 02/27/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Ely Sonny Orquiza and dramaturg Estrella Gonzalez from the Sonoma State University School of Performing Arts production of Perfect Arrangement. We chatted about the show and the impact of the budget issues at SSU on the students and the program.…