My guests on the second Thursday, April 4 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Samantha Bohlke-Slater, Ellie Paul, Dylan Kupper and Poliento Ico from the Redwood Theatre Company production of The Tempest. Click below to listen: **********
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…
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: **********
Around in one form or another since 1930, the Ross Valley Players have long been entertaining local audiences with a mixture of world-renown classics, Broadway hits, and contemporary plays. Notably missing from their decades-long season’s lists has been anything written by William Shakespeare. The opening production of their 89th season rectifies that. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night…
Like an Elizabethan game of whack-a-mole, as soon as North Bay theatre companies knock out one outdoor summer Shakespeare production, another one seems to pop up. Marin Shakespeare brought us Pericles at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows amphitheater, the Raven did A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Healdsburg’s Seghesio Winery, and Shakespeare in the Cannery did Shakespeare…
Guests on the Thursday, August 16 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included playwright/director Jacinta Gorringe and actors Chazz Madeiros and Ella Jones from the Petaluma Shakespeare Company production of Speechless Shakespeare. Click below to hear that interview: *** Fore more information, got to petalumashakespeare.org
‘Tis the season for Shakespeare al fresco so pack a picnic, grab a blanket and check out these North Bay productions: Marin Shakespeare closes out its season under the stars with Pericles, a play whose authorship by Shakespeare has fostered many a debate. Plot points include incest, assassination, famine, a shipwreck, marriage, maternal death, familial…
