KSRO Interview: “Cinderella”
My guests on the Thursday, May 9 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Brittany Law and Zachary Hasbany from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Cinderella. Click below to listen: **********
Review: “Barbecue Apocalypse” in Rohnert Park
It’s been said that the only two things guaranteed to survive the Apocalypse are cockroaches and Cher. Playwright Matt Lyle would like to add one more thing to that list – the good ol’ American barbecue – the setting of his 2014 play Barbecue Apocalypse, running now at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center through April…
KSRO Interview: “Barbecue Apocalypse”
My guests on the Thursday, March 28 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Larry Williams and Sam Coughlin from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Barbecue Apocalypse. Click below to listen: **********
Mango margaritas with “Barbecue Apocalypse” director Larry Williams
Written by David Templeton “We’re not technically drinking, I want that to be absolutely clear,” Petaluma stage director-and-actor Larry Williams pointed out, on a recent St. Patrick’s Day Sunday, as a pair of tall, colorful, impossibly sweet-looking margaritas – one blended, one on the rocks – appeared at our table. “This isn’t alcohol consumption. It’s…
Fire Circle Theater brings first-ever ReVerberation Festival to Spreckels this weekend
This weekend, when Sonoma County’s Fire Circle Theater presents its first ever “ReVerberation Festival of Community Voices,” at Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park, Petaluma’s Julie Yeager will be one of many to participate in what promises to be a vast, wildly diverse showcase of spoken word performances. “I am going to do a…
Spreckels announces 2019/2020 season
On Saturday night, as part of Spreckels Performing Arts Center’s big party celebrating its 30th anniversary, Artistic Director Sheri Lee Miller announced Spreckels Theatre Company’s ambitious, premiere-filled 2019/2020 season. Anchored by a number of major North Bay debuts, the season – which will begin this August – will feature two plays and four musicals, a…
Spreckels to announce new season at free celebration this weekend
Spreckels Performing Arts Center, in Rohnert Park, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this weekend with a free onstage musical event on Saturday, March 9, at 7:00 p.m. The show will feature “concert-style songs” showcasing some of Spreckels’ most popular and fondly remembered musicals, and will include a bit of a “look forward” to what Artistic…
Review: “Hamlet” in Rohnert Park
To see or not to see? That is the question. Anyone with even the slightest interest in theatre has probably seen a production or two of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in their lifetime. Considered by many to be Shakespeare’s – if not the world’s – greatest play, it’s one-third ghost story, one-third dysfunctional family drama, and…
KSRO Interview: “Sweeney Todd”
My guests on the Thursday, January 31 theatre segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Lynne Morrow, Rachel Levin and Noah Evans from the Sonoma State University production of Sweeney Todd. Click below to listen: **********
KSRO Interview: “Hamlet”
My guests on a special Wednesday, January 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Keith Baker and Eric Thompson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hamlet. Click below to listen: **********
North Bay Stage and Screen 