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…
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…
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