North Bay theatre in the New Year kicks off with Cinnabar Theater’s production of the two-hander Daddy Long Legs. Former Cinnabar Artistic Director Elly Lichenstein returns to direct John Caird and Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of the popular novel by Jean Webster that was first published in 1912. The production runs in Petaluma through Jan.…
My guests on the January 5 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Brittany Law Hasbany and Brett Strader from the Cinnabar Theater production of Daddy Long Legs. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
My guests on the December 29 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke were Cinnabar Theater’s Executive Director Diane Dragone and singer/musician Deb Del Mastro for a conversation about their Swingin’ New Year’s Eve Party and what’s coming up in the New Year for Cinnabar Theater. Click below to listen:…
Adaptations of the works of Stephen King for film and television have been hit or miss over the years. For every The Shining or ‘Salem’s Lot, there’s a Firestarter or The Langoliers. Mainstream theatrical adaptations have been limited to a 2018 musical version of Carrie (a major Broadway flop but cult hit) and Misery, which…
My guest on the October 20 “Theatre Thursday” segment of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was Tim Kniffin, director of the Cinnabar Theater production of Stephen King’s Misery. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
My guests on the September 8 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were director Zachary Hasbany and cast member Tina Traboulsi from the Cinnabar Theater production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
For many people, when they drive past a homeless encampment or encounter a hungry person asking for spare cash, they quickly choose from a very short list of actions: looking the other way, offering help, writing letters to public officials or making a mental note to “do something” in the future. When Petaluma writer Nathaniel…
My guests on the June 9 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were director Elly Lichenstein and actor Gene Wright from the Cinnabar Theater production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Playwriting is often a form of artistic exorcism. Many a play have been written to bring a form of closure to unresolved conflicts, strained relationships, or traumatic experiences and to release the hold that personal demons have on their authors. For playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), that demon happened to be his…
My guests on the April 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Michael Fontaine and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of Three Tall Women. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
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