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…
My guests on the 06/12/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Chris Schloemp from the 6th Street Playhouse/Jacobethan Theatre Workshop co-production of Hamlet. The show runs on the Monroe Stage of the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through June 21. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
by Beulah F. Vega 6th Street Playhouse, in collaboration with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, is presenting a ‘stripped down’ version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet on their Monroe Stage through Saturday, June 21. For those unfamiliar with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, it’s the company that for the last few years has produced “Shakespeare in the Parking…
Napa Valley College has an excellent track record with youth-centric, large-scale Broadway musical productions. They’ve done a great job with past productions of such shows as Matilda the Musical and Spring Awakening. It was inevitable that Jennifer King, Theatre Arts and Film Studies Coordinator at NVC and founder of Shakespeare Napa Valley, would find a…
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 guests on the April 25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Logan Witthaus and Jace Hassler from the Santa Rosa Junior College Student Production Club presentation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre on the Santa Rosa campus of the SRJC through…
My guests on the first of two February 15 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 were Sheri Lee Miller and Jared Emerson-Johnson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream… 60’s style! The show runs in Rohnert Park through February 25. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
Mill Valley’s Curtain Theatre must not have gotten the memo about Summer Shakespeare al fresco in Marin requiring a production of Twelfth Night (two other companies are doing it.) Instead of a comedy, Mill Valley’s Old Mill Park Amphitheatre is the scene of great tragedy as the company presents Romeo & Juliet through Sept. 4.…
North Bay fans of Shakespeare “under the sun” have at least four options this summer including two – count ‘em – two different productions of Twelfth Night going up in Marin. Sonoma County’s entry in this summer of Shakespeare ‘fest’ is The Comedy of Errors. Healdsburg’s Raven Players return to West Plaza Park with a…
Marin County’s venerable Curtain Theatre returns to the Old Mill Park Amphitheatre in Mill Valley for their more-or-less annual offering of Shakespeare al fresco. This year it’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, what many consider the Bard’s first (but still lesser-known) play. If you find Shakespeare difficult to follow, fear not! The plot is fairly simple…
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