A recent New York Times headline asked the question “Can a Play About Vaccines Be a Laughing Matter?” Bay Area audiences can answer that question themselves by attending one of two current productions of the play in question – Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day. You can catch it Off-Broadway in New York, or you can go…
My guests on the Thursday, August 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elizabeth Craven and Eiko Yamamoto from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Eureka Day. Click below to listen: **********
For twenty years, Mill Valley’s Curtain Theatre has treated local audiences to admission-free, fully-produced Shakespeare plays performed in the small outdoor amphitheatre in Old Mill Park. Whether they will get to continue to do so is in the hands of city’s Parks and Recreation Commission as they deal with complaints from some neighbors who appear…
Perhaps the most mislabeled entertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV”. The belief that anything can be real in the presence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful at worst. That’s one of the themes at work in Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener running…
Here are the 2018 – 2019 Sonoma County theatre season productions attended by members of the MTJA and under consideration for nomination for the 2019 MTJA Awards: Cabaret Cinnabar Arts Musical Savage Wealth Main Stage West Comedy The Curious Incident of the Dog … Spreckels Theatre Company Drama The Naked Truth Left Edge Theatre Comedy…
My guest on the Thursday, August 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Keiko Carreiro from the San Francisco Mime Troupe production of Treasure Island. Click below to listen: **********
After their success with A Chorus Line, the Transcendence Theatre Company returns to form with Those Dancin’ Feet, an original musical revue running now in the winery ruins in Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen. Transcendence has built its reputation on a series of productions featuring top Broadway and national touring company talent.…
My guests on the Thursday, August 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Jessica Headington and actor Eyan Dean from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Book Club Play. Click below to listen: **********
Adhering to Mark Twain’s advice to “write what you know”, Napa Valley’s Barry Martin has written and directed a play based on his experiences in the wine hospitality trade. The Tasting Room, running now at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center through August 18, is his comedic take on the individuals found on both sides…
Silliness takes the stage at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows Amphitheatre as the Marin Shakespeare Company presents Monty Python’s Spamalot. It’s the company’s first full musical production in thirty years. “Lovingly ripped off” from the Python’s 1975 cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it’s the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the…
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