by Harry Duke After a couple of rabble-rousing, politically-bent productions, Petaluma’s Mercury Theater shifts to British comedy with their production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. The Michael Fontaine-directed production runs through Mar. 21. The play, written in 1930, has served as a vehicle for some of the top performers of the past century, including Elizabeth…
My guests on the 02/26/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Michael Fontaine and Zane Walters from the Mercury Theater production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. The show runs in “the little red schoolhouse on the hill” in Petaluma from March 6 through March 21. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
My guests on the 01/08/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Stage Director Elizabeth Craven and Music Director Tom Martin from the Mercury Theater production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song. The show runs January 9 through January 25 in the former Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 parable play/farce about the dangers of complacency and appeasement is, as is said much too frequently today, as timely as ever. It’s a shame eight U.S. Senators haven’t had a chance to see it. It’s the second show in the first full season for Petaluma’s Mercury Theater, the newest theatrical kid on…
My guests on the 10/30/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Keith Baker and Kevin Bordi from the Mercury Theater production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui. The parable play about the rise of an American gangster runs at the old Cinnabar Theater building in Petaluma from October 31…
My guests on the 06/19/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Jared Emerson-Johnson, President of the Board of Mercury Theater of Petaluma, and mezzo-soprano/actress Leandra Ramm. Leandra is currently appearing in the one-act operas Trouble in Tahiti and Service Provider, running in tandem at Mercury Theater in Petaluma through June 22. Click…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were sound designer Jared Emerson-Johnson and cast member Amanda Vitiello from the Mercury Theater production of Meet Me at Dawn. The show runs in Petaluma through April 19. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
My guests on the 11/07/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ken Urso and Imri M. Tate from the upcoming CollabWERKS production of Midsummer. The show is a wild, immersive, theatrical dance party based (loosely) on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Nikko Kimzin. It’s being performed at The California in Santa…
My guests on the 10/31/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Janis Dunson Wilson and Molly Larsen-Shine from the upcoming Mercury Theater of Petaluma presentation of With a Scene and a Song. The show is an evening of musical theater songs and theater scene excerpts from some of your favorite shows. It’s…
My guests on the 09/26/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Elly Lichenstein and Jared Emerson-Johnson, founding members of the newly formed Mercury Theater of Petaluma. Their opening presentation is called Welcome Home and happens on Saturday, October 5 at the (former) Cinnabar Theater building. Welcome Home “will be one part variety…
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