by Cari Lynn Pace A Chorus Line opens with a backstage look at dozens of dancers trying out for a part in a new show. The live music is energizing and brassy; the director of the audition is pushy and demanding. After dance eliminations, only seventeen remain onstage. They’re exhausted and nervous as they urgently…
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association, a North Bay-based critics group originally formed in 2015 but dormant since the pandemic, has announced their “rebooting” and the resumption of their annual theater awards program. The following message was emailed on September 1 to the leaders of the North Bay theatre community from MTJA member Harry Duke: Back…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Lorenzo Alviso and choreographer Hannah Woolfenden from the 6th Street Playhouse production of A Chorus Line. The show runs in the G.K. Hardt Theatre at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through September 28. Click below…
By Harry Duke The Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) summer series concludes with a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Shakespeare comedy features one of the Bard’s greatest characters as well as the usual masquerading and comeuppances.The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 23, at 7:30 pm, and…
My guest on the August 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Lukas Raphael, Artistic Director of the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop. The JTW’s second Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production for this season is The Merry Wives of Windsor. It runs in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot…
by Harry Duke The “green-eyed monster” is running amok in the field next to the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production of Othello. The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 9, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, August 10, at 6:00 pm. After…
My guests on the August 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Justin Thompson and Mari Pagan from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) continues in Santa Rosa with this second of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th…
My guests on the July 24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were David Lear and Ally Bray from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s Othello. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) returns to Santa Rosa with this first of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot.…
My guest on the 07/10/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was David R. Gordon from the cast of the Transcendence Theatre Company’s production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The show, part of TTC’s “Broadway Under the Stars” series, opens on August 7 and runs through August 17 in Sonoma at the…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has conspired with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop to drag Shakespeare out of the parking lot and back into the comfy confines of a black box theater with their co-production of Hamlet. Their truncated version of what no less an authority than Laurence Olivier called “the tragedy of a man who…
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