My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 10/02/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Kimberly Kalember and Sylvia Whitbrook from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Bad Seed. The show performs on the Monroe Stage at the Playhouse in Santa Rosa through October 26. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 10/02/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Reed Martin and Gwen Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel). The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre on the Santa Rosa Junior College campus…
by Harry Duke If there’s one thing this divided nation can agree on, it’s this: Dolly Parton is a national treasure. Consequently, anything affiliated with Ms. Parton automatically starts out with a heap of goodwill. So it is with 9 to 5: the Musical. The Novato Theater Company has a production running through October 12.…
Over 150 members of the North Bay theater community gathered on Sunday night at The California in Santa Rosa for the 2025 Norbay Theater Awards. The Awards, a reboot of the Marquee Theater Journalist Association Awards of 2015-2020, recognized outstanding work in 16 categories. Sonoma and Napa County productions in the 2024-2025 season that were…
My guests on the 09/25/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Maddi Scarbrough and Megan Bartlett from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Into the Woods. The show runs in the Codding Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through October 12. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
by Cari Lynn Pace You won’t need any coffee to get fired up for this outrageous office comedy. With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, and direction by Larry Williams, this show is an overtime winner. Novato Theater Company put in long hours to hire three female leads with confident voices and pencil-sharp acting skills.…
My guests on the 09/18/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Amanda Claiborne and Nick Charles from the Curtain Call Theatre production of Exit, Pursued by a Bear. The show runs at the Russian River Hall in Monte Rio through September 27. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day is a play with deep Bay Area roots. Originally commissioned by Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre and performed in 2018, it won the 2019 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script and Theatre Bay Area’s Will Glickman Award for best new play to premiere in the Bay Area. It…
by Harry Duke It’s been 50 years since Michael Bennett’s A Chorus Line took Broadway by storm. The musical tale of the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of those who seek a life in the theatre won nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize and held the record for longest running Broadway musical for 14 years.…
True West Film Center, the non-profit film organization, today announced its opening dates for the Cinemas at True West, the newest destination for North Bay movie goers. The cinemas are the focal point of the film center’s James Redford Campus located at 371 Healdsburg Avenue. Cinema doors will open to the public on Friday, October…
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