Large scale, family-friendly theatre returns to the North Bay with the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Wind in the Willows. Julian Fellowes of Downton Abbey fame adapted Kenneth Grahame’s classic 1908 novel in collaboration with composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe (the same team that adapted Mary Poppins for the stage.) The musical…
My guests on the May 2 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sean O’Brien and Keene Hudson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Wind in the Willows. The show runs at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through May 19. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 04/11/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Maeve Smith and Jaime Love from Sonoma Arts Live for a discussion of their upcoming production of The Hello Girls and a preview of next season. The Hello Girls opens April 19 and runs through…
My guest on the April 4 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Brad Surosky, Executive Director at Transcendence Theatre Company, for a discussion of the changes in store for the company this year and a preview of their “Broadway in Sonoma” season. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
My guests on the March 29 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Steven Lasiter and Jennifer Barnaba from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Million Dollar Quartet. The show runs in Santa Rosa through May 4. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
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…
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…
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