No less a source than the Mayo Clinic recommends laughter as a great source of stress relief and in these stressful times, two North Bay productions may be just what the doctor orders for local audiences. The SRJC Theatre Arts Department is presenting Neil Simon’s Rumors through April 27, while Sonoma Arts Live presents the…
My guest on the 04/17/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Amy Miller, Creative Vision Director of Transcendence Theatre Company. Amy previewed TTC’s upcoming summer series of shows. Their “Broadway Under the Stars” series kicks off on June 13 in Sonoma with Broadway’s Best Night Ever. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Jerome Kern. Richard Rogers. Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen Sondheim. Jimmy Buffett. Something seems off there. Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Escape to Margaritaville. Something really seems off there. “Ol’ Man River”, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin”, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, “Cheeseburger in Paradise”. Ok, I think you see where this is going. In the pantheon of…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Dana Hunt and actor Dylan James Pereira from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Shark is Broken. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through April 11. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were sound designer Jared Emerson-Johnson and cast member Amanda Vitiello from the Mercury Theater production of Meet Me at Dawn. The show runs in Petaluma through April 19. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
Theatrical adaptations of popular movies populate American theaters to an often-nauseating extent. Often transmogrified into musicals, producers mount them in the belief there’s a built-in audience guaranteed to show up and buy tickets en masse. While successful Bay Area runs of such shows as Mrs. Doubtfire and Back to the Future might be proving their…
How interesting can a play be if it tells the story of an unremarkable person’s life told by that unremarkable person and the unremarkable people that surround them? How unremarkable? So unremarkable that playwright Simon Stephens doesn’t even give them names in his cast list for Morning Sun, now playing in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Joe Gellura and actor Elliot Davis from the Raven Players production of The Bridges of Madison County. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through March 30. Click below to listen: **********…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Chuck Noland and actor Robert Bauer from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of 1984. The show runs in Cloverdale through March 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
The name Clifford Odets probably means little to the modern theatregoer, but there was a time he was considered a titan of American theatre, fitting somewhere in between Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller. His “working class dramas” of the 1930s (like Waiting for Lefty) were extremely popular with audiences and influential with up and coming…
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