Remember the good ol’ days when all a teenage boy had to worry about was being drafted into the military, trained to kill, shipped off to a foreign land, and die defending corporate interests in the name of democracy? Well, you can relive the grand old ‘60’s by attending the 6th Street Playhouse production of…
My guests on the February 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were director Aja Gianola-Norris and performer Jamin Jollo from the upcoming 6th Street Playhouse production of Hair. Click below to listen: ********** EDITOR’S NOTE – An incorrect website is given at the end of the segment. Go to http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.com for…
2021 was supposed to be the year that live theatre came roaring back, and it did… for a while. By the end of the year, that roar had been replaced by a hacking cough symptomatic of exposure to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Theatres once again began to cancel or postpone performances as casts…
Much has been written about the recently released Steven Spielberg/Tony Kushner version of West Side Story. While the reviews have been rapturous, its box office can be described as lukewarm at best, and the term “flop” has been bandied around by some. Its failure to find an audience (at least so far) has been attributed…
As TV regularly demonstrates, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol can be adapted into just about any scenario. For theatre, just take the plot points and characters, plop them into a modern-day situation and locale, add some songs and – voila! – instant Christmas show! It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s basically what…
Fans of ‘50s and ‘60s pop music and the all-male or all-female groups that sang it looking to take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle might consider heading to Sonoma for some respite. Sonoma Arts Live is presenting Plaid Tidings and Winter Wonderettes in “rep”, two jukebox musicals draped in holiday trimmings that…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 18 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Michael Ross and Maeave Smith from the upcoming Sonoma Arts Live productions of Plaid Tidings & Winter Wonderettes. Click below to listen: ***********
My guests on the Thursday, September 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Carl Jordan and actor Maeve Smith from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Sunset Boulevard. Click below to listen: ***********
One way theatre companies have responded to the pandemic and its related restrictions is to produce smaller shows. Solo performances, two-handers, small-cast dramas and comedies and stripped-down musicals have been the season openers on most local stages. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse opens their GK Hardt Theatre with Murder for Two, a title that neatly…
What’s a community theatre to do when it wants to put on a large-scale family musical in the age of COVID? Well, if you’re Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions, you hire Scottie Woodard to direct the show and follow his lead in assembling a really creative design team and cast. Their production of Disney’s The Little…
North Bay Stage and Screen 