Theatre companies love to produce theatre about theatre. 6th Street Playhouse gets in the act with Ken Ludwig’s 1995 door-slamming farce Moon Over Buffalo, running through February 3. Buffalo’s Erlanger Theater is hosting the repertory company of George and Charlotte Hay (Dodds Delzell & Madeleine Ashe), grade-B actors and grade-A hams who never made it…
My guests on the Thursday, January 17 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Michael Ross and Karen Pinomaki from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Click below to listen: **********
It’s said that musicals are the bread and butter of community theatre, so here’s a list of the North Bay productions I toasted this past year. Here are my top torn tickets of 2018: Part Two, the Musicals (in alphabetical order): Always, Patsy Cline… – (Sonoma Arts Live) – Danielle DeBow’s Patsy was as heartbreaking…
My guests on the Thursday, January 10 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Dodds Delzell and Chandler Parrott-Thomas from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Moon Over Buffalo. Click below to listen: **********
‘Tis the time for “Best of …” lists, so in the spirit of my illustrious predecessor and with a nod to the substantial differences in mounting a musical versus a play, here are my top torn tickets of 2018 – Part One, the Plays (in alphabetical order): Blackbird – (Main Stage West) – As dark subject…
For years, Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater has closed out the year with a musical cabaret show. Past years’ productions have celebrated the work of musical artists from Edith Piaf to Mahalia Jackson to Frank Sinatra. This year, the work of classic American tunesmith Cole Porter takes center stage via Love Linda, a look at Porter through…
My guest on a special Wednesday, December 19 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Jess Headington from the 6th Street Playhouse production of the 12 Dates of Christmas. Click below to listen: **********
One-person shows with a holiday theme tend to skew toward the male variety, whether it’s a show about a disgruntled department store Christmas elf (David Sedaris’s Santaland Diaries) or a single dad desperate to maintain the fiction of Santa Claus with his children (David Templeton’s Polar Bears). Even Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol has been…
My guests on the Thursday, December 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein and Clark Sterling from the Cinnabar Theater production of Love, Linda. Click below to listen: **********
There’s no more proven commodity for community theatres than Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. A reliable audience-pleaser since its 1965 Broadway debut, the story of mismatched roommates has been adapted for film and television numerous times and Simon himself rewrote it for an all-female cast. The Ross Valley Players production running through December 16 is…
