As a graduate of a University Theatre Arts program, I well remember how important it was to have an audience fill the seats at our performances. Having an audience, a real audience (not just one composed of friends and family and students looking for some easy extra credit for their English class) made all the…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 10/03/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Patrick Nims and performer Chloë Angst from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Lizzie: The Musical. The show is running in 6th Street’s GK Hardt Theatre in Santa Rosa through October 27. Click below…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 10/03/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Leslie McCauley and actors Maverick Cheney and Orion Pudoff from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of All in the Timing: An Evening of Comedy by David Ives. The show runs in…
By Beulah F. Vega When playwright Will Arbery was asked what his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was about, he had a simple answer: “Listening.” Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has a production closing Saturday, September 21 with a 1:00 pm matinee performance at The California. Set in 2017 soon after the election of…
Musicals seem to be the season openers of choice for North Bay theatre companies with two more joining the Spreckels Theatre Company run of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. 6th Street Playhouse is hosting 4 Guys Named José… And Una Mujer Named María! in their GK Hardt Theatre while Sonoma Arts Live brings Young…
by Bob Duxbury Heroes of the Fourth Turning caused a stir when it was first produced in 2019, not least because the normally liberal theater community produced an energetic defense of conservative Catholic doctrine adapted for popular consumption from the cerebral The Fourth Turning. The book, by William Strauss and Neil Howe, is a favorite…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/05/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Michael Girts from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop “Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot)” productions of Macbeth and As You Like It. The shows run in rep in the parking lot of the Arlene…
My guest on the August 15 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Eric Jackson, Conceiver/Director/Choreographer of Transcendence Theatre Company’s third production in their “Broadway in Sonoma” series. Dancing in the Street runs through August 18 at the Field of Dreams in Sonoma. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for…
My guest on the July 18 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Tony Gonzalez, Artistic Director at Transcendence Theatre Company. Tony previewed Don’t Stop Us Now, the second production in Transcendence’s “Broadway in Sonoma” series. The show opens July 25 at the Field of Dreams in Sonoma. Click below to hear the…
‘April is the cruelest month’ is the opening line to T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, but June has been no picnic for the North Bay theatre community either. Transportation issues marred the opening of the Mountain Play while bouts of illness plagued other productions. Napa’s Lucky Penny had to utilize an actor…
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