“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.
North Bay theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. Holiday-themed shows now give way to the usual mixture of comedies, dramas, and musicals from classics to contemporary works to a short play festival. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse gets things going in early…
Audiences headed for a performance of the Raven Players’ production of Cinderella who are expecting anything along the lines of a Disney musical are in for a bit of a surprise. This particular production, running at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through Dec. 1, is done in the style of a British pantomime,…
My guests on the 11/14/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Nicholas Augusta, Lily Gibson, and Declan Hackett from the Raven Players production of Cinderella – A Family Holiday Panto. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through December 1. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
Reviewing a mystery/thriller is always a challenge. One wants to leave a play’s twists and turns for the audience to discover on their own, but in evaluating the play one can’t but help give a bit away. This is my way of saying this entire review should be prefaced with a ‘spoiler alert’. You have…
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…
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 May 16 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ron Smith and Lexus Fletcher from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Native Gardens. The show runs on the 6th Street Playhouse’s Monroe Stage from May 24 though June 16. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
“Is this funny? I think it’s sad.” That comment was murmured from one audience member to her seatmate after other audience members chuckled at the recent Mother’s Day matinee performance of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The Raven Players production runs through May 26 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. It’s a…
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