If live theatre, which is in crisis, ends up in a doom spiral, it won’t be for a lack of talent and energy from the current generation of performing artists. The stages at College of Marin and Santa Rosa Junior College recently hosted productions featuring some very good work by their youthful casts. Napa Valley…
My guests on the February 22 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Robert Zelenka and Tika Moon from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class. The show opens in Cloverdale on March 1 and runs through March 10. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
My guests on the first of two February 15 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Sheri Lee Miller and Jared Emerson-Johnson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream… 60’s style! The show runs in Rohnert Park through February 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
It’s been almost 50 years since the antics of the British comedy troupe known as Monty Python’s Flying Circus were unleashed on an unsuspecting Texas audience by a Dallas PBS station. The BBC-produced series soon found a loyal American audience and a series of feature films followed. Python made it to Broadway in 2005 with…
My guests on the first of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Lorenzo Alviso and Molly Larsen-Shine from the 6th Street Playhouse production of She Loves Me. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Seething drama gives way to light comedy at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse with their production of She Loves Me. The romantic musical comedy runs in the GK Hardt Theatre through Feb. 25. Based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, She Loves Me retains the basic storyline of co-workers who detest…
My guests on the February 1 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Dr. Lynne Morrow and Malik-Charles Wade from the Sonoma State University production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. The show runs in Rohnert Park through February 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
North Bay theatre in 2024 kicked off with Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater and their production of the Jason Robert Brown musical The Last Five Years. It’s the first of four shows remaining in their season before they close up shop at the little red schoolhouse on the hill and go on the road as a proposed…
Of course they made a Broadway musical out of the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy Elf. Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan took the basic elements from the film, softened one of the major characters, added more “Christmas spirit” and music by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, and came up with Elf, the Musical. It’s a show…
My guests on the December 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Serena Elize Flores and performers Jonathen Blue and Molly Larsen-Shine from the Left Edge Theatre production of [title of show] now running in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
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