“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…
My guests on the May 9 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Matt Farrell and Jeanette Seisdedos from the Raven Players production of Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through May 26. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
Healdsburg’s The 222 concludes its season of professional drama with The Mountaintop, co-directed by Aldo Billingsley and Rebecca Novick. Playwright Katori Hall’s 2009 imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night on Earth runs through April 14. It’s late in the evening of April 3, 1968 and Dr. King (Ron Chapman) has returned to…
Healdsburg’s Raven Players is one of the few local companies to wear the phrase “community theater” as a badge of honor. Absent a delusion of grandeur and pretenses of ‘Broadway quality’, the Players simply make the commitment to be a place that all are welcome, both on and off the stage. Their casts are frequently…
My guests on the March 22 “Theatre Thursday” (on Friday) segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Craig Peoples and Waylon Hessler from the Raven Players production of The Wizard of Oz. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through April 7. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
My guest on the second of two February 15 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 was Steven David Martin, Artistic Director of the Raven Players in Healdsburg, for a conversation about the Raven Performing Arts Theater’s upcoming Winter Gala, to be held February 23, and what the future holds for the Raven Players.…
My guests on the January 25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sky Hernandez-Simard and Andrea Chavez from the Raven Players production of Chimichangas and Zoloft. The show runs in Healdsburg through February 11. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 26 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director/actor Troy Thomas Evans and actor Bohn Connor from the Raven Players production of Evil Dead: The Musical running now at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
If the lack of a splatter zone is what’s kept you from returning to live theater, do the Raven Players have a show for you. Evil Dead: The Musical is running at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through October 29. Based on the Sam Raimi classic cult horror film trilogy, playwright George Reinblatt…
In the ten or so years I’ve been doing theater journalism, I’ve probably seen close to one thousand shows, with about one-third of them being productions of Mamma Mia! (The Addams Family Musical is rapidly approaching that number.) Lately, the repetitive nature of theater programming has been getting to me. I have found it difficult…
North Bay Stage and Screen 