North Bay theaters seem to be in the middle of a Karen Zacarías mini-festival with the Ross Valley Players well-received run of the playwright’s The Book Club Play coming to an end while Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse is in the middle of their run of Native Gardens. Both plays poke fun at suburban life…
My guests on the May 30 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Michael Tabib and Wanda Weimar from the Curtain Call Theatre production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane. The show runs at the Russian River Hall in Monte Rio through June 22. Click below to hear the interview: ********** Click HERE for more…
In a London in the not-too-distant future, the British government has imposed a strict limitation on the number of words any individual can speak in a twenty-four-hour time period. That’s the basic premise of Sam Steiner’s Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons. The “whys?” for the limitations are barely addressed (and the “hows?” never are) in…
My guests on an extended May 23 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Argo Thompson and Serena Elize Flores from the Left Edge Theatre production of Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa though June 8. Click below to hear the interview about the show.…
My guests on the May 16 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ron Smith and Lexus Fletcher from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Native Gardens. The show runs on the 6th Street Playhouse’s Monroe Stage from May 24 though June 16. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
“Is this funny? I think it’s sad.” That comment was murmured from one audience member to her seatmate after other audience members chuckled at the recent Mother’s Day matinee performance of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The Raven Players production runs through May 26 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. It’s a…
My guests on the May 9 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Matt Farrell and Jeanette Seisdedos from the Raven Players production of Dead Man’s Cell Phone. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through May 26. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
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…
My guests on the May 2 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sean O’Brien and Keene Hudson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Wind in the Willows. The show runs at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through May 19. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
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…
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