My guests on the 11/07/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ken Urso and Imri M. Tate from the upcoming CollabWERKS production of Midsummer. The show is a wild, immersive, theatrical dance party based (loosely) on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Nikko Kimzin. It’s being performed at The California in Santa…
Several hundred costume-clad theatre goers filled the Santa Rosa Junior College’s Burbank Auditorium on Halloween night for the opening of their production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. This was quite a change from my initial Rocky Horror experience in 1978 when my brother and three of our friends were joined by just one…
My guests on the 10/31/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Janis Dunson Wilson and Molly Larsen-Shine from the upcoming Mercury Theater of Petaluma presentation of With a Scene and a Song. The show is an evening of musical theater songs and theater scene excerpts from some of your favorite shows. It’s…
My guests on the 10/24/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Alex Delzell and Austin Aquino-Harrison from the upcoming Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. The show opens on the SRJC Burbank Auditorium Main Stage in Santa Rosa on Halloween night and runs through…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 10/03/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Patrick Nims and performer Chloë Angst from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Lizzie: The Musical. The show is running in 6th Street’s GK Hardt Theatre in Santa Rosa through October 27. Click below…
As jukebox musicals go, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a pretty darn good one and the production at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through October 13 is a pretty darn good one, too. While most jukebox musicals use a flimsy book as connecting material for a plethora of songs by a…
My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/19/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 was David R. Gordon from the Transcendence Theatre Company production of The Gala: A Sentimental Journey, the fourth and final summer production in Transcendence’s “Broadway in Sonoma” series. The show is running on the Field of…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/19/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were actors Julianne Bretan (via phone), Drew Bolander, and Keith Baker from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The show runs at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park from…
Cinnabar Theater opens their 52nd season on the road with a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! Having vacated the little red schoolhouse on the hill in Petaluma while awaiting construction of their new theatre, Cinnabar is utilizing the Warren Auditorium at Sonoma State University for their mainstage performances. It runs there through…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/12/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Cinnabar Theater Artistic Director Nathan Cummings and Director/Actor Zachary Hasbany from the Cinnabar Theater production of Oklahoma! The show is running at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in…
North Bay Stage and Screen 