by Barry Willis * Sonoma Arts Live continues its ambitious and mostly successful run of boy-meets-girl favorite The Light in the Piazza through May 10. A tale about an American woman and her daughter on a tour of Italy, with book by Craig Lucas and music by Adam Guettel, the stage show, based on the…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 FM on 04/30/26 were director Kim Bromley and cast member Tina Traboulsi from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Seussical. The family musical comedy runs through May 17 in the Codding Theater at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert…
by Cari Lynn Pace * Sonoma Arts Live invites the audience to join a mother and daughter as they sightsee in Florence, Italy in this musical with lyrics by Adam Guettel based on Craig Lucas’s book. The stage, designed Laurynn Malilay and Sandra Ish, overflows with statuary, fountains, lush plantings, and a live band directed…
My guests on the first of two 04/23/26 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 FM were Sandra Ish and Jaime Love from the Sonoma Arts Live production of The Light in the Piazza. The romantic musical runs on the Rotary Stage of the Sonoma Community Center through May 10. After a discussion about…
by Harry Duke * There is no more quintessential Broadway musical than Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly! Theatre companies large and small have been producing it regularly since its debut more than 50 years ago including productions over the last decade by the Raven Players, Sonoma Arts Live, and the Mountain Play. Santa Rosa Junior College…
My guests on the second of two 04/16/26 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 FM were Laura Downing-Lee and Matthew Quezada-Cortes from the SRJC Theatre Arts production of Hello, Dolly! The show has eight performances from April 17 through April 26 on the Burbank Auditorium Main Stage on the campus of Santa Rosa…
by Cari Lynn Pace * Conceived by Jeff Whitty and based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse tackles the jukebox musical Head Over Heels with gusto. The Go-Go’s, the all-girl band whose music is featured, give us quite a music collection to enjoy. This mash-up of Shakespearean patois with…
My guests on the 04/09/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Malia Abayon and HarriettePearl Fugitt from the upcoming 6th Street Playhouse production of Head Over Heels. The jukebox musical featuring music from the Go-Go’s runs in the GK Hardt Theatre at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa from April 10 –…
My guests on the 03/26/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sharon Griffith and Sheri Lee Miller to discuss the upcoming presentation of Juke Joint Jukebox. The historical cabaret is being performed at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park from April 10 – April 12. Click below to listen: **********…
by Cari Lynn Pace * If you expect this rock music show to be loud and in-your-face, you are correct. What you may not expect is how Alanis Morissette’s emotional songs resonate in today’s angry world. Drug use? Sexual predators? Political privilege? Color bias? Lover infidelity? They’re all here, exploding from the intimate Novato Theater…
North Bay Stage and Screen 