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…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/13/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Clark Lewis and Jeff Savage from the Roustabout Theater Company production of Awake and Sing! The show runs in the Carsten Cabaret of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa through March 30. Click…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/13/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Lauren Heney and Molly Noble from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Morning Sun. The show runs in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre in the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through April 6. Click below to…
My guests on the 03/06/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Shanay Howell and Tajai Britten from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Clyde’s. The show runs in Santa Rosa on the Monroe Stage at 6th Street Playhouse through March 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
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.…
“You stepped over the line.” is both the first line of Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things and also a criticism leveled at LaBute for a lot of his writing. Sometimes labeled a misanthrope and other times labeled a misogynist, Labute’s plays and films like In the Company of Men often feature terrible people doing…
My guests on the 02/20/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Anne Yumi Kobori and Lauren Berling from The 222 production of The Shape of Things. The show runs at The 222 in Healdsburg through March 2. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the 02/13/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sarah Dunnavant and Miriam Ani from the Cinnabar Theater production of Steel Magnolias. The show runs at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park through February 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre continues to push the boundaries for North Bay theatre audiences with another provocative production, this time with a show whose title is usually redacted in print. Steven Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat runs at The California though February 22. Guirgis, who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
