KSRO Interview: “Oliver!”
My guests on the Thursday, November 7 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Patrick Nims, David Yen, and Brittany Law from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Oliver! Click below to listen: **********
Reviews: “Wait Until Dark” & “Between Riverside and Crazy” in Santa Rosa
Local theatres seem to be in a New York state of mind with two very different shows set in the Big Apple running on North Bay stages. 6th Street Playhouse brings the somewhat ironically titled Wait Until Dark to their Monroe Stage while Left Edge Theatre puts their audiences somewhere Between Riverside and Crazy. Wait…
Curtain Going Up Again at North Bay Theatres
With the Kincade fire no longer posing an imminent threat and with PG&E enlisting a full contingent of wheel-running squirrels to power up the area, North Bay theatre companies that were forced to shutter their productions last week are looking forward to resuming their runs this weekend. Here’s the status of all Sonoma and Marin…
Two North Bay Shows to Resume Performances
With the power back on in most of the North Bay, two theatre companies who had to cancel performances have announced that they’re back on, too. The Santa Rosa Junior College production of The Good Doctor will re-open with their scheduled Saturday and two Sunday performances at the Newman Auditorium location. Click HERE for more information…
The “Doctor” is OUT, “Merman’s” No Business
The SRJC Theatre Arts Department production of The Good Doctor remains shuttered as the College announced its continued closure on Friday due to lack of power. No decisions have been made as to the scheduled weekend performances. ********** Since PG&E pulled the plug on Sonoma, Sonoma Arts Live has had no choice but to pull…
Review: “Gypsy” in Santa Rosa
In sports, the term ‘ringer’ generally refers to the practice of using a clearly superior competitor in order to gain an unfair advantage. In theatrical terms, it can be used to describe the importation of outside talent in the hope of drawing a larger-than-normal audience. In both cases, the hope is that the player/performer will…
UPDATE – SRJC Performances Cancelled by PG&E Power Shutoff, “Merman’s” Status Undecided
The SRJC Theatre Arts Department has announced the cancellation of both their scheduled Wednesday, October 9 and Thursday, October 10 performances of The Good Doctor due to the PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff. All SRJC campuses will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday. A decision on the performances scheduled through the weekend will be made…
North Bay Artists & Companies Snag 52 Noms for 2019 TBA Awards
Theatre Bay Area has announced the nominees for their 6th Annual TBA Awards and North Bay artists and companies have snagged 52 nominations. The awards will be presented on Monday, November 4th at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. The TBA Awards are designed to honor excellence in professionally oriented theatre through a peer-based, Bay Area-wide…
Review: “Nuts” in Santa Rosa
While technically not set in a courtroom, Tom Topor’s Nuts, running now at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through Sept. 29, has all the elements of a classic courtroom drama – a defendant, a judge, a prosecuting attorney, a defense attorney, and witnesses. However, the question of Innocence or guilt of a crime is not…
Review: “The Book Club Play” in Santa Rosa
Perhaps the most mislabeled entertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV”. The belief that anything can be real in the presence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful at worst. That’s one of the themes at work in Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener running…
North Bay Stage and Screen 