If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has the feeling of a school show done large, it should come as no surprise that it was originally commissioned by a London Prep School as a piece for their boys’ choir. This early collaboration of a then-teenage composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and twenty-something lyricist Tim Rice started…
The Venn diagram that displays the relationship between lovers of the works of William Shakespeare and musical theatre probably shows very little overlap. Nevertheless, if you’re in either category – and especially if you’re in that overlap – you should head to Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse and catch one of their remaining performances of…
My guests on the final Theatre Thursday broadcast on June 1 on The Drive on KSRO were David Lear and Lorenzo Alviso from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Something Rotten! Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Watch it, Mill Valley! Your quiet little burg is currently under siege from what may be (according to some pundits and politicians) the greatest threat our nation faces in these troubled times. Lock your windows and bolt your doors because attendees of the latest show at the Throckmorton Theatre have reported multiple sightings of… drag…
My guest on the May 11 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO was Jennifer Boesing from the Mountain Play production of Into the Woods. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Large-scale, family-friendly musical theatre returns to the North Bay with the Spreckels Theatre Company’s production of Tuck Everlasting. The stage adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s novel about immortality had a very brief life on Broadway in 2016. If the Spreckels production – running in Rohnert Park through May 21 – is any indication, the…
My guests on the May 4 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were Larry Williams, Nico Alva, and Molly Belle Hart from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Tuck Everlasting. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Lovers of musical theatre in general and the works of Stephen Sondheim in particular would do well to head out to Sonoma and catch Sonoma Arts Live’s Side by Side by Sondheim. The musical revue runs on the Rotary Stage in Andrews Hall through May 7. Like most musical revues, there’s not much of a…
My guest on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the April 20 broadcast of The Drive on KSRO was Andrew Smith, director of the Sonoma Arts Live production of Side by Side by Sondheim. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
When it comes to jukebox musicals, Always… Patsy Cline may be North Bay theatergoers’ favorite. That’s evidenced by the number of productions put on in the area in recent years. Sonoma Arts Live reprised their 2018 production late last year, and now Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has mounted a Jared Sakren-directed production that runs…
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