Interview – “She Loves Me” in Santa Rosa

My guests on the first of two February 8 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Lorenzo Alviso and Molly Larsen-Shine from the 6th Street Playhouse production of She Loves Me. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.

Review: “She Loves Me” in Santa Rosa

Seething drama gives way to light comedy at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse with their production of She Loves Me. The romantic musical comedy runs in the GK Hardt Theatre through Feb. 25. Based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, She Loves Me retains the basic storyline of co-workers who detest…

Interview – “Fences” at 6th Street Playhouse

My guests on the January 11 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Jourdán Olivier-Verdé and actor Keene Hudson from the 6th Street Playhouse production of August Wilson’s Fences. The show runs in Santa Rosa through February 4. *Note – Technical difficulties prevented the entire interview from being recorded, but here is…

Review: “Elf, the Musical” in Santa Rosa

Of course they made a Broadway musical out of the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy Elf. Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan took the basic elements from the film, softened one of the major characters, added more “Christmas spirit” and music by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, and came up with Elf, the Musical. It’s a show…

Review: “A Christmas Carol” in Santa Rosa

A cranky member of the 1% spends years exploiting the labor of his employee by paying a sub-standard wage and forcing him to work unregulated hours in an unsafe work environment. Spectral social activists attempt to persuade the capitalist exploiter to see the error of his ways, but it takes the threat of death for…