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…
My guests on the 07/31/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Declan Hackett, Alyssa Rempel, and Kate Edery from the Raven Players production of William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. This Raven production of the Shakespeare classic is being set in 1950’s Italy and is being presented at Bacchus Landing in Healdsburg…
Which of the following does not belong: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, School of Rock. It’s a trick question because they are all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. Even School of Rock? Yep. Webber bought the stage rights to the 2003 Richard Linklater/Mike White film…
My guests on the 06/26/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Declan Hackett and Sylvia Whitbrook from the Raven Players production of School of Rock. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through July 13. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the 05/08/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Caroline Clark and Heather Berger from the Raven Players production of Home, I’m Darling. The play runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through May 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Audiences headed for a performance of the Raven Players’ production of Cinderella who are expecting anything along the lines of a Disney musical are in for a bit of a surprise. This particular production, running at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through Dec. 1, is done in the style of a British pantomime,…
My guests on the 11/14/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Nicholas Augusta, Lily Gibson, and Declan Hackett from the Raven Players production of Cinderella – A Family Holiday Panto. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through December 1. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
Reviewing a mystery/thriller is always a challenge. One wants to leave a play’s twists and turns for the audience to discover on their own, but in evaluating the play one can’t but help give a bit away. This is my way of saying this entire review should be prefaced with a ‘spoiler alert’. You have…
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.
My guests on the March 22 “Theatre Thursday” (on Friday) segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Craig Peoples and Waylon Hessler from the Raven Players production of The Wizard of Oz. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through April 7. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
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