Interview – “In the Heights” at SSU

My guests on the February 1 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Dr. Lynne Morrow and Malik-Charles Wade from the Sonoma State University production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. The show runs in Rohnert Park through February 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.

Review: “Hello, Dolly!” in Rohnert Park

North Bay audiences finally got a chance to say “hello” to Dolly Gallagher Levi after the curtain rose on the bureaucratically-delayed Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Veteran director Elly Lichenstein makes her Spreckels debut with the Jerry Herman classic now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Oct 15. …

Interview – Spreckels’ “Hello, Dolly!”

My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 28 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Elly Lichenstein and Sheri Lee Miller from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Due to some administrative issues, the show’s scheduled September 29 opening has been temporarily delayed. Click the link at the bottom of…

Review: “Stones in His Pockets” in Rohnert Park

What happens when Hollywood comes to town is a well-worn plot device best exemplified by the classic ‘Mayberry Goes Hollywood’ episode of The Andy Griffith Show. Mayberry’s reactions to the arrival of a film company in their quaint Southern town was played for gentle humor as the residents go about changing everything about the town…

Review: “Tuck Everlasting” in Rohnert Park

Large-scale, family-friendly musical theatre returns to the North Bay with the Spreckels Theatre Company’s production of Tuck Everlasting. The stage adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s novel about immortality had a very brief life on Broadway in 2016. If the Spreckels production – running in Rohnert Park through May 21 – is any indication, the…