Review: “The Wind in the Willows” in Rohnert Park

Large scale, family-friendly theatre returns to the North Bay with the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Wind in the Willows. Julian Fellowes of Downton Abbey fame adapted Kenneth Grahame’s classic 1908 novel in collaboration with composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe (the same team that adapted Mary Poppins for the stage.) The musical…

Interview – “Much Ado About Nothing” at SRJC

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…

Interview – “Shipwrecked!” at Cinnabar Theater

My guests on the April 18 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Trevor Hoffman and Nathan Cummings from the Cinnabar Theater production of Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougement (As Told by Himself). The show runs in Petaluma through April 28. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…

Review: “The Mountaintop” in Healdsburg

Healdsburg’s The 222 concludes its season of professional drama with The Mountaintop, co-directed by Aldo Billingsley and Rebecca Novick. Playwright Katori Hall’s 2009 imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night on Earth runs through April 14. It’s late in the evening of April 3, 1968 and Dr. King (Ron Chapman) has returned to…