The predominant story in Bay Area theatre in the past year continues to be company closures and the regular announcement of emergency fund raisers to stave off further closures. No theatre company is immune to the financial pressures created by the combination of the increase in costs of doing business and the reduction of income…
My guest on the July 25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Velina Brown, director of American Dreams, the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production. The show is playing at various venues throughout Northern California, including at La Plaza Park in Cotati on August 3 and the back lawn of the Mill…
My guest on the July 11 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Jonathen Blue, director/choreographer/cast member in the Sonoma Arts Live production of The Prom. The show runs on the Rotary Stage of the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma through July 28. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for…
After a COVID-related postponement, the Raven Players production of Company is now open for business. The classic Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical runs in the Playhouse at Windsor High School through July 21. A smash hit in 1970, the show is a series of musical vignettes in no particular order on the subject of…
My guests on the June 27 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Anthony Martin and Molly Larsen-Shine from the Raven Players production of Company. The show runs at The Playhouse in the Windsor High School Theater Building through July 21. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for more information.
‘April is the cruelest month’ is the opening line to T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, but June has been no picnic for the North Bay theatre community either. Transportation issues marred the opening of the Mountain Play while bouts of illness plagued other productions. Napa’s Lucky Penny had to utilize an actor…
My guest on the June 13 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Patrick Nims, director of the 6th Street Playhouse production of Kinky Boots. The show runs in the Playhouse’s GK Hardt Theatre through July 7. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for more information.
The last few years have been exceedingly challenging for the theatre community, and Mill Valley’s Mountain Play is no different. “Since 2019 the Mountain Play has been weathering storms,” said Executive Director Eileen Grady, “both literal and figurative. From the climate crisis to employment law changes to the pandemic and its aftershocks, we’ve been through…
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…
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